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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7082027" data-attributes="member: 5100">Many of us old-timers have our favorites that we'd like to see updated, stat-wise. Personally, I think Greyhawk is what it is. Gygax did a great job of giving it a certain flavor, but no other author has really quite managed to update it well. As much as I loved the old red-and-gold box, I think it's best left alone.On the other hand, I do not like the implications of having a single WotC-published setting available. I think it sends the message that D&D is primarily associated with a single setting, which diminishes possibly my favorite thing about D&D -- creating and customizing the setting. The fact that I've never cared for the Realms, specifically, makes it all the more aggravating that it happens to be the marque setting, but I wouldn't want any setting to be getting as much spotlight as the Realms do. Having any other WotC-published settings at least communicates that the Realms are officially just one option among many, even if it happens to be the most supported.Yes, there was a time when Greyhawk was the only published setting for 1E AD&D. The way it was presented, however, was substantively different. It was pretty darn clear that Gygax (therefore TSR) implicitly assumed that the (vast) majority of DMs would be creating their own settings, if they bothered with much detail at all. Greyhawk was more of an example of what one could do with a setting and/or a quick-start for groups to use. It was definitely a fully-realized setting with a ton of history, nations, deities, etc. -- the red-and-gold box has maps showing what each nation's primary resources are and showing the early migratory paths of the major human ethnicities as well as sections detailing things like the garb in various regions. It just wasn't presented as nearly as "core" as the Realms sometimes are, today.So, if they produce a Greyhawk setting book, I'll buy it. Mostly, I'll buy it not because I plan on running a game in Greyhawk, but because I'm voting with my dollar. I'll vote for adventures that don't mention the Five Factions. I'll vote for adventures that don't have maps in the Realms. I'll vote for anything that makes it clear that there's more than one setting for D&D and that the SCAG (or any other, specific, setting book) shouldn't be even remotely considered another "normal startup" purchase for a group.</blockquote>

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