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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8648723" data-attributes="member: 6937590">I don't think you made a very good case that it is &quot;imperative&quot; for WotC to publish Greyhawk. (haters gon' hate, internet pedants gon' go after your word choice)I understood your main arguments on the point to be the following:I basically agree with all of those points but, apart from the first one, I don't see that Greyhawk is the only or even necessarily the best suited setting. Other settings also have mysteries/unexplored teritorry (Nerath... or Strixhaven as [USER=6906155]@Paul Farquhar[/USER] not entirely unsarcastically mentioned) and other settings also have a sword and sorcery aesthetic mixed with political allegory (Dark Sun). And, where the first point is concerned, engaging with history is very much a YMMV advantage, though, as you say elsewhere in the thread, it is appropriate for an anniversary publication.Did I miss something there? I'd be happy enough to see WotC do something with Greyhawk (I love my Sword and Sorcery), but these don't seem like overwhelmingly compelling reasons why they should.(apologies if the above out of context quotes are misleading, they're meant to be illustrative, not gotchas)(emphasis mine)Whoa...I don't think I ever noticed this before but... is that a Cold War thing?Mutually assured destruction between the Baklunish and Suloise empires and then (much later) a period where key intellectuals advocate a balance [of power] between conflicting blocs.Yikes, maybe Greyhawk would be (uncomfortably) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci0KziJvkYM" target="_blank">apropos of 2024</a>.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8648723, member: 6937590"] I don't think you made a very good case that it is "imperative" for WotC to publish Greyhawk. (haters gon' hate, internet pedants gon' go after your word choice) I understood your main arguments on the point to be the following: I basically agree with all of those points but, apart from the first one, I don't see that Greyhawk is the only or even necessarily the best suited setting. Other settings also have mysteries/unexplored teritorry (Nerath... or Strixhaven as [USER=6906155]@Paul Farquhar[/USER] not entirely unsarcastically mentioned) and other settings also have a sword and sorcery aesthetic mixed with political allegory (Dark Sun). And, where the first point is concerned, engaging with history is very much a YMMV advantage, though, as you say elsewhere in the thread, it is [I]appropriate[/I] for an anniversary publication. Did I miss something there? I'd be happy enough to see WotC do something with Greyhawk (I love my Sword and Sorcery), but these don't seem like overwhelmingly compelling reasons why they should. (apologies if the above out of context quotes are misleading, they're meant to be illustrative, not gotchas) (emphasis mine) Whoa... I don't think I ever noticed this before but... is that a Cold War thing? Mutually assured destruction between the Baklunish and Suloise empires and then (much later) a period where key intellectuals advocate a balance [of power] between conflicting blocs. Yikes, maybe Greyhawk would be (uncomfortably) [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci0KziJvkYM']apropos of 2024[/URL]. [/QUOTE]

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