D&D (2024) How Does Greyhawk Fit In To The New Edition?

According to Game Informer — “the surprising importance and inclusions of what is arguably the oldest D&D campaign setting of them all – Greyhawk.”

So how does Greyhawk fit in? According to GI, the new 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk. Not only that, but the book will come with a double-sided poster map with the City of Greyhawk on one side and the Flannaes on the other—the eastern part of one of Oerth’s four continents.

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Even as the multiverse of D&D worlds sees increased attention, the Dungeon Master's Guide also offers a more discrete setting to get gaming groups started. After very few official releases in the last couple of decades, the world of Greyhawk takes center stage. The book fleshes out Greyhawk to illustrate how to create campaign settings of your own. Greyhawk was the original D&D game world crafted by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, and a worthy setting to revisit on the occassion of D&D's golden anniversary. It's a world bristling with classic sword and sorcery concepts, from an intrigue-laden central city to wide tracts of uncharted wilderness. Compared to many D&D campaign settings, it's smaller and less fleshed out, and that's sort of the point; it begs for DMs to make it their own. The book offers ample info to bring Greyhawk to life but leaves much undetailed. For those eager to take the plunge, an included poster map of the Greyhawk setting sets the tone, and its reverse reveals a map of the city of the same name. "A big draw to Greyhawk is it's the origin place for such heroes as Mordenkainen, Tasha, and others," Perkins says. "There's this idea that the players in your campaign can be the next great world-hopping, spell-crafting heroes of D&D. It is the campaign where heroes are born."

- Game Informer​

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[Warpiglet-7]

When did the release the PHB cover?

Check the news! It was today!

 

[Morrus]

When did the release the PHB cover?

If only there was a TTRPG news site somewhere.... oh, wait!

 

[MNblockhead]

I must be the outlier over sixty guy here.... As I would have liked a new setting, with discussion of how they built it, like the excellent articles on dragon or dungeon. Happy for those that want this though

I love new settings, but I would rather a new setting be in its own book, like Ravnica. Greyhawk makes a lot of sense for the 50th anniversary. It is also a nice, rather generic, light setting that can be summarized and presented as a build your own world kit/example.

Fingers crossed they open the setting up on the DMs Guild, where everyone can really go to town.

This is what we should be most excited about. Since it will be in a core book, I'm optimistic that they'll open it to DMs Guild. Die hard fans have done great work on building upon Greyhawk over the years and this could lead to some great Greyhawk setting books and adventures by TPPs and fans.

I thought conventional wisdom was that "kids these days" wouldn't go for Greyhawk?

Kids these days are likely not going to have the nostalgia to be excited about Greyhawk, but there is not reason why they wouldn't enjoy having a world available in broad strokes that they can use as a launch pad for homebrewing their own campaign (yeah, mixed metaphor, but I'm tired, and y'all know what I mean).

It’s nice to see. But its been in loving hands of fans who have carried the torch for it for decades. Do not f$&k up the setting WotC

There is no way that it will not disappoint anyone expecting anything more than a broad outline. But if this opens it to DMs Guild, then those fans who have been carrying the torch can make their excellent work available on DMs Guild.

Grognip?

Now I want to make a goblin character named "Grognip."

 

[Muddyboots]

The Egg of Coot is behind this, somehow….

 

[DarkCrisis]

Newer players are going to be shocked when most demi-humans can't be spell casters.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Newer players are going to be shocked when most demi-humans can't be spell casters.

 

[DEFCON 1]

There is no way that it will not disappoint anyone expecting anything more than a broad outline. But if this opens it to DMs Guild, then those fans who have been carrying the torch can make their excellent work available on DMs Guild.

The 5E versions of Dragonlance, Planescape, Ravenloft & Spelljammer have each pissed off a contingent of players because they weren't exactly like the material found in each of their original books. But in order to know that the 5E versions were not the same as the older versions, each of those players would have had to own the material from way back when. So if you owned the old material and preferred the old material, you didn't need the 5E version in the first place!

No one who is a Greyhawk fan should want the 5E24 DMG for its Greyhawk material. There's not going to be anything in the book that will be useful to you, other than it possibly getting opened on DMs Guild or you want the huff of nostalgia seeing 21st century art and maps styles. But the actual nitty-gritty of the setting? You should have been using the World of Greyhawk boxed set you own this entire time, because the 5E24 is going to change a crapton of stuff that most modern gamers just wouldn't be thrilled about seeing from what was going on back in '80.

 

[overgeeked]

 

[Mistwell]

This announcement makes me unbelievably happy!

 

[Doc_Klueless]

The 5E versions of Dragonlance, Planescape, Ravenloft & Spelljammer have each pissed off a contingent of players because they weren't exactly like the material found in each of their original books. But in order to know that the 5E versions were not the same as the older versions, each of those players would have had to own the material from way back when. So if you owned the old material and preferred the old material, you didn't need the 5E version in the first place!

No one who is a Greyhawk fan should want the 5E24 DMG for its Greyhawk material. There's not going to be anything in the book that will be useful to you, other than it possibly getting opened on DMs Guild or you want the huff of nostalgia seeing 21st century art and maps styles. But the actual nitty-gritty of the setting? You should have been using the World of Greyhawk boxed set you own this entire time, because the 5E24 is going to change a crapton of stuff that most modern gamers just wouldn't be thrilled about seeing from what was going on back in '80.

Myself, I'm super excited to see where they take Greyhawk and how I can manipulate it to fit into my World of Greyhawk. Just like I did with From the Ashes.