D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Coming From Luke Gygax & WotC

[Professor Murder]

...i can't tell whether this is more akin to quasi-sanctioned eberron / realms books from keith baker and ed greenwood or a fully-sanctioned D&D supplement...

Honestly, this is my assumption.

 

[Azzy]

Cool. I can't wait to se what this entails. I might have to pick it up.

 

[mamba]

So, now we're nitpicking the use of "rift"? Sheesh.

You're right, Gygaxes haven't been involved with official D&D for quite some time . . . which is part of the "rift", part of Ayoub's point.

I thought you meant OSR vs 5e to be a rift that this somehow is supposed to help address. If this is just Gygax and WotC then sure, call it whatever you want, doesn’t matter to me

For WotC, this is a way to get some more nostalgia into the new releases. Gygax? Greyhawk? Melf? Of course part of the purpose is marketing and sales, $$. For Luke, this is a chance to be directly involved in the game his father created, and that was a huge part of his childhood.

all true

I'm happy that Luke is getting this opportunity, he's good people. And I'm fine with WotC banking on nostalgia. I'm excited for this project.

I have no opinion on Luke, don’t know anything he did before this (not that there is all that much going by Wikipedia), but to me it feels like he got this gig because of his last name rather than because of qualifications. If so, I am no fan of that

 

[Sulicius]

More Greyhawk? I had hoped we had seen the last of it crammed into the DMG. There is nothing inspiring to me about the setting, and I don’t see any reason to be excited about the son of the guy who drove the original company into the ground.

They’ll release it and the same people who are excited for it now will complain little changes. Same as it ever was.

 

[Clint_L]

Greyhawk was the first setting guide I bought; this was the boxed set back in the early 80s. I cannot express how much I loved it. So this announcement makes me very happy.

But that’s just me being selfish. My second thought is: how wonderful for Luke Gygax! Imagine getting to go back and revisit all those places you first explored in your dad’s home campaign. And now getting to put your stamp on them, and pass them on. This will be a very emotional journey for him. I am very happy for him; he sounds thrilled.