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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonhelm" data-source="post: 3189088" data-attributes="member: 3867">I could see it both ways.  On the one hand, WotC is so big that they could easily ignore other companies.  I don't think that's the case, though.  For example, Unearthed Arcana came out after Arcana Unearthed.  Some of the ideas and themes from UA appear to be borrowed from AU (i.e. racial paragon levels, totem barbarian).  This suggests to me that WotC does indeed pay attention to its competitors and may even use their releases to boost their own sales.  This also has the effect of giving them a product to directly compete with other companies.  A D&D fan may compare two similar products and go with the WotC version just because of the company name and D&D brand.  It may also depend on who you talk to in WotC.  <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=";)" />So really, what we have here are two visions.  One is Gygax's vision, which we can see in Castle Zagyg.  Since WotC owns the Greyhawk intellectual property, it is within their rights to produce a different vision.  I don't know how much of Gygax's vision will be in this product, but I do trust that the authors will be very true to the setting.  The end result, though, is that we have two different visions to use and two different adventures to play.  Since Castle Zagyg can easily be put into Greyhawk, an adventuring party may very well go through both mega-dungeons.And who knows?  Maybe the two will complement each other nicely.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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