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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3592923" data-attributes="member: 33060">Your time here is not wasted.  It is appreciated.  Things do change.  It is very easy to see any company as monolithic and those working for the company as speakers for the monolith.  However, change is the only constant in today's business community.  People come and go and with them different ideas and approches.  Research reveals new or changed situations/opportunities.  And then there is the almighty reorg.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> While everyone should, IMO, take such matters into consideration, often they do not, IMO, because they don't see how or that the change is occuring.  They see what they have been seeing or what they believe they have always seen, usually from a distance or several removes.  I think that's a natural if not necessarily always positive reaction.With specific respect to Greyhawk, its fans, I think, can be described (among other descriptions  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) as "long suffering."  This is not to condone sharp comments but to perhaps put them in some context.  That context is one of a devoted, dedicated fanbase that, given a bit of encouragement would, IMO, be as enthusiastic about a GH setting as they are negative with no such setting in sight.  In short, when some GH fans "attack," it is because they care and that passion for the setting is marketable, IMO.No one iteration of the GH setting is going to please every GH fan but GH fandom remains sufficiently passionate about the setting to be a good base upon which a new GH setting could be founded.  Even if not every GH fan gets on board a particular vison of GH, and they won't, there is a foundation there among those who will.  New fans can then be added to the foundation, hopefully catching the enthusiam for the setting and propelling sales.  But I digress.I think you have been very open in your thoughts about Greyhawk as you have expressed them here and that is very much appreciated.  I hope you will not be overly put off when some Greyhawkers let their passion and sense of "long suffering" get the best of them.  I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Wotc to partner with Greyhawk and its fans in a way that will work to everyone's benefit and interests.  Ideally, Wotc can find a way to produce or license a new vision of GH that will find an audience, new and not just old, and thereby be very profitable.  This is not a thread for suggesting ideas to Wotc but perhaps it would be a thought to have a design contest much like the one that produced Eberron - "How would you redesign the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for publication?"Anyway, thank you for your time, responses and patience!Glenn</blockquote>

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