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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 9384920" data-attributes="member: 86051">So how does Greyhawk fit in? I suppose one could argue that discovering and working with old Greyhawk for the first time was much like buying and driving your first 205 GTi*. It was unknown and (almost) unique, challenging, daunting even, crude and offensive, broke down all the time, and tried to kill you at every corner - but it was the first time you experienced all of that and, as the saying goes, you never forget your first time.But above all, you wanted more of it.So when the 206 GTi came out and it promised to be even better, you just couldn't wait to experience all of it again in ways better and never seen before.And perhaps it did, indeed, make you revisit what you'd felt before, take you to places well-remembered along paths well-known, and bring back glorious memories - and this time even without breaking down so much or trying to kill you when you put the pedal to the metal.**And that was exactly the problem. What happened to the fast and furious? Carl who? And YTL is everybody yelling that <s>the GTi</s> Greyhawk is back - when it literally isn't?Fast forward to Greyhawk 5.next and you just know that there is virtually no chance that it will be as exciting as it once was, that it can be nothing more than a futile attempt to blow new life into the days of yore.Is that bad? It probably is.But is it true?Maybe Greyhawk 5.bananas isn't the problem. Maybe it's just that you can never experience a first time again, um..., while sober, that is. So I say let's all of us who experienced those first days of Greyhawk cherish our memories, drink to them, share them, build on them, and rejoice that we were fortunate enough to be there when it mattered.So where does that leave Greyhawk 5.lamp?Well, there's a whole new generation that has been driving 207 GTs and has read about the legend of Greyhawk on their phones, what it was, what it did, what it brought to so many people. And I suppose at least some of them will be curious, perhaps even excited. And maybe, just maybe, whatever Greyhawk 5.whatever will become will inspire some of them to delve deep into its history and discover what it was that made old Greyhawk so special.And if not, I gather many of them will experience Greyhawk 5.new in ways new but not unlike we did, build their own fond and irreplaceable memories of it - and complain mightily when Hasgrandcho brings out Greyhawk 7.VR 40 years from now.Any of which, in itself, is a good thing.But there's just that tiny bit in me that wishes they hadn't used good old Greyhawk for this.*) Or 68 Mustang for those living across the pond**) Which is, perhaps, somewhat less true for the Mustang of today</blockquote>

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