Living Greyhawk 4.0 draft

[Barendd Nobeard]

Yeah, that'd be nice.

When they finish up the five-year story arcs at the end of this year, I'd love to see a revised Greyhawk setting book. Think of all the cool plots and twists from LG they could include. It'd be a massive job to sort through all the LG-generated info (if it even exists in some coherent manner for the early year of 3rd edition LG).

They really should publish one--they could make every LG player buy it which would really help sales!

 

[NiTessine]

They really should publish one--they could make every LG player buy it which would really help sales!

Or hurt Living Greyhawk.

Personally, I'd welcome such a tome, but I'm not certain how widespread this conviction is, and while there is a vast body of Greyhawk fans outside of RPGA who have been clamoring for more Greyhawk material, I'm not too certain about how well they'd receive such a book... Of course, they could help sales by putting in an unique certificate for something cool in the book, but that might not be received too well.

Still, the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is due for an update. I'd prefer a hardcover edition, with the setting information of the first, updated to reflect the campaign's advancement, and this time, with a bit more space devoted to the United Kingdom of Ahlissa, the regional feats from Dragon with maybe a couple of additional ones thrown in, and maybe some crunch from the Living Greyhawk Journals, like the bullywug savant, the qullan, the animus, the Knight of the Chase... I do realise it's rather unlikely we'll ever see such a book, but it'd be nice.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Well, I wasn't really serious with the "make every player buy it" statement--hence the smiley.

With the not-so-new "you must have the book at the table rule" then any 'crunch' a player wanted to use from such a book for Living Greyhawk means s/he would have to buy it. If the book remained "just" 'flavor' text then sales would not be as good--but I'd bet that every triad member and author would probably buy one (and lots of players, but certainly not all of them).

But I don't think WotC would release a book with no "crunch" these days. Crunch sells.

 

[NiTessine]

Well, I wasn't really serious with the "make every player buy it" statement--hence the smiley.

With the not-so-new "you must have the book at the table rule" then any 'crunch' a player wanted to use from such a book for Living Greyhawk means s/he would have to buy it. If the book remained "just" 'flavor' text then sales would not be as good--but I'd bet that every triad member and author would probably buy one (and lots of players, but certainly not all of them).

But I don't think WotC would release a book with no "crunch" these days. Crunch sells.

Perhaps they should run a poll on who would buy the book if it was, say, 80% flavour. I've a feeling the numbers just might be in favour of such a tome...

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Perhaps they should run a poll on who would buy the book if it was, say, 80% flavour. I've a feeling the numbers just might be in favour of such a tome...

That would be some very interesting market research, which I would love to see.

 

[MerricB]

But I don't think WotC would release a book with no "crunch" these days. Crunch sells.

Try Sharn: City of Towers. Very, very little crunch in it.

Cheers!

 

[grimslade]

Living Greyhawk Setting Book

I think that they could stuff some crunch in. You have the LGJ prestige classes i.e. Veth, Darkhagard, Silent One, Mask of Johydee and new monsters: bullywugs, qullan, the bright lands critters. There are the Regional feats and a whole slew of magic items from the various mods. The paladins of the various gods. That is a lot of crunch. Enough to make a Greyhawk setting sourcebook. Hardcover, with the fancy updated map from Dungeon.

Grim

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

Try Sharn: City of Towers. Very, very little crunch in it.

Cheers!

Can't. My Eberron DM is using it and has forbidden us from buying it.

 

[qstor]

Grimslade,

there's a bunch of other monters that could go in the book. Since the Fiend Sage articles stopped in the LGJ theres no official conversion of a few Greyhawk monsters. I'd like to see a return of the Xvart

Mike

 

[NiTessine]

there's a bunch of other monters that could go in the book. Since the Fiend Sage articles stopped in the LGJ theres no official conversion of a few Greyhawk monsters. I'd like to see a return of the Xvart

Mike

The xvart was also in an issue of Living Greyhawk Journal, which, I suppose, makes it official. However, it's 3.0, and a tad hard to track down, these days.