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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3713340" data-attributes="member: 48586">Hey guys, Greyhawk as an adventure setting has always been supported by WotC up to this point , by the simple fact that Paizo Publishing has to send all of the material to be appearing in Dragon and Dungeon (may they rest in peace) to them first to get OK'd prior to sending it to print and enough people at both companies are fans of the setting to make sure it hasn't &quot;gone the way of the dodo&quot;. Obviously, WotC has banked on Eberron and Forgotten Realms to be their cash cows. They've also used Greyhawk as their default setting for many years without actively pushing any supplemental products other than adventures. But that's really what Greyhawk is, afterall. It's a setting defined by its adventures. And there has been a steady stream of Greyhawk adventures every year in Dungeon magazine. Oh, and let's not forget the huge 4-panel poster map of Greyhawk that came with Dungeon #120 - 124 (may have issues off a little). Again, WotC supported.With the advent of 4E on the horizon, Greyhawk may well be forgotten, but then again, it may not. There's not enough information yet about what the exact content of new material is going to be. My impression, and this is based on my own writer/publisher relationship with WotC at the moment, is that Greyhawk will continue much the way it has (just enough Greyhawk adventures coming out each year to keep it going as long as players want to use it).To say that Greyhawk is dead and that anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming is utter crap. If that's how it is for you, then so be it, but your own feelings toward it is far from factual, so please stop touting it as if it's some well known truth. It's not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3713340, member: 48586"] Hey guys, Greyhawk as an adventure setting has always been supported by WotC up to this point , by the simple fact that Paizo Publishing has to send all of the material to be appearing in [i]Dragon[/i] and [i]Dungeon[/i] (may they rest in peace) to them first to get OK'd prior to sending it to print and enough people at both companies are fans of the setting to make sure it hasn't "gone the way of the dodo". Obviously, WotC has banked on Eberron and Forgotten Realms to be their cash cows. They've also used Greyhawk as their default setting for many years without actively pushing any supplemental products other than adventures. But that's really what Greyhawk is, afterall. It's a setting defined by its adventures. And there has been a steady stream of Greyhawk adventures every year in [i]Dungeon[/i] magazine. Oh, and let's not forget the huge 4-panel poster map of Greyhawk that came with [i]Dungeon[/i] #120 - 124 (may have issues off a little). Again, WotC supported. With the advent of 4E on the horizon, Greyhawk may well be forgotten, but then again, it may not. There's not enough information yet about what the exact content of new material is going to be. My impression, and this is based on my own writer/publisher relationship with WotC at the moment, is that Greyhawk will continue much the way it has (just enough Greyhawk adventures coming out each year to keep it going as long as players want to use it). To say that Greyhawk is dead and that anyone who thinks otherwise is dreaming is utter crap. If that's how it is for you, then so be it, but your own feelings toward it is far from factual, so please stop touting it as if it's some well known truth. It's not. [/QUOTE]

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