Perhaps players knowing about as much as their characters would is no longer a novel idea...
Oh, don't listen to him. He doesn understand those of us who must know
everything.
And don't listen to
him, as he
thinks he knows everything, but very much knows
nothing. "The magic" of the game, the "not knowing/not knowing", is a wily and cunning mistress.
Oh, there those two go again, always arguing about whether it is better to know everything or know only what your character would know.
Hey! I'm here too! You and me are
the same! I have bouts of multiple personality while posting too!
Sometimes...or so they tell me.
(Seriously though, I do know what you are getting at.)
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Anyways, FR will likely stick around, but it would be nice to see a slew of products that would be fresh and new/new-ish. Besides, there is the 4E FR debacle to consider. Some people might like what WotC did with FR in 4E, but I know plenty of hard core "I gotta have
EVERYTHING FR!!!" fans who loathed it and would buy none of it. FR was great(and very, very well received) once, but at this point I think it would be very healthy for FR to have a little downtime in way of cleansing the FR community's palette so to speak. Until the recent FR becomes the stuff of suppressed memory, a return to Greyhawk would be a very good thing overall, both for Greyhawk fans and, in the end, for FR fans as well.
The timing and conditions are about as good as they are going to get for a Greyhawk rebirth. Hopefully WotC will strike while the iron is hot, and that they
get some decent writers who are more than passingly familiar with the setting.