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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9348814" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Really, it it not just that it is Greyhawk that has me interested. It is a nice nostalgia hit and an appropriate nod to the games history in the 50th Anniversary edition.  But I'm mostly interested in that it gives me hope that this DMG will be a much better throughout toolbox for DM world building. Having a world sketched out at a highlevel with advice on world-building, hopefully cross-referenced with other parts of the DMG, and containing tools that can be useful to DMs building and running their campaigns, regardless of the setting could be very useful, especially to new DMs. The purpose, from what I've read about it so far, is NOT to provide a well-developed setting, but rather to give you tools and examples for building your own. I've got hundreds of pages of Eberron material. I have an entire shelf literally bowed with the weight of my Lost Lands books (plus more material in PDF form).  The Midgard Setting from Kobold press is another very fleshed out setting for 5e. You have the Critical Role setting books for 5e. WotC has published fairly highlevel, but still hundreds of pages of setting material for Ravnica, Raven Loft, Theros.  Forgotten Realms kinda got poorly treated in terms of an actual setting book, but you still have hundreds of pages of 5e content if you include some of the adventures books in addition to the Sword Coast book. And there are many more third-party publisher settings for 5e. And you can get PDFs for older setting books. What 5e has been missing is tools for building your own world. Those hoping for a "well developed" Greyhawk are setting themselves up for disappointment if they think a chapter in the DMG is going to deliver that. They'll need to wait for third-parties to develop their take on Greyhawk in the DMs Guild, if and when WotC opens Greyhawk to the DMs Guild. If they do it right, it will have well designed and useful tools with some nice Greyhawk flavor. A cool map and very high-level descriptions of areas and politics, that DMs can use as a jumping off point.</blockquote>

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