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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8222883" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Reason hasn't changes since last thread asking about &quot;What's the next setting book?&quot;.Greyhawk because I don't think they &quot;get&quot; Greyhawk. They'd try and prop up 'big bad guys' like Iuz, Tharizdon, Vecna, etc. as &quot;world shaking threats&quot;....when they aren't. Not in a Greyhawk sense. Greyhawk is MUCH more about &quot;shadows, shades and all that in between&quot;. Greyhawk is about a lowly 1st level adventurer going out into the world to get rich....or die trying. It's not (necessarily) about a lowly 1st level adventurer &quot;thrust into the dangers of world-spanning bad guys, forced to rise to be the hero everyone needs to save the world!&quot;. In short, Greyhawk isn't about &quot;being a hero&quot;, it's about &quot;being a successful adventurer&quot;. I don't think WotC would be able to 'sell' an authentic Greyhawk feel and they'd resort to trying to make the default PC be &quot;a hero destined for greatness&quot;.Mystara, similar reasons, but also.... there is NO WAY they would be able to do Mystara, The Known World, justice in a single 256pg hardback. They'd need at least, by my estimate, about 1200 pages to even remotely do it justice...and that's being conservative! Mystara is made up of 13 Gazetteers, each with between 75 and 110 or so pages, plus Champions of Mystara (another 250+ pages), Dawn of the Emperors (230+ pages) and Wrath of the Immortals (another 230+ pages). Don't even mention the Creature Crucible books (more demihuman and nonhuman 'classes' to play) or the entirety of the Hollow World part of Mystara.So...I'd rather not have to suffer the knowledge of the indignant &quot;reimagining&quot; of either of my two favourite settings. Selfish of me? Yup. But I don't care. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8222883, member: 45197"] Hiya! Reason hasn't changes since last thread asking about "What's the next setting book?". [B]Greyhawk [/B]because I don't think they "get" Greyhawk. They'd try and prop up 'big bad guys' like Iuz, Tharizdon, Vecna, etc. as "world shaking threats"....when they aren't. Not in a Greyhawk sense. Greyhawk is MUCH more about "shadows, shades and all that in between". Greyhawk is about a lowly 1st level adventurer going out into the world to get rich....or die trying. It's not (necessarily) about a lowly 1st level adventurer "thrust into the dangers of world-spanning bad guys, forced to rise to be the hero everyone needs to save the world!". In short, Greyhawk isn't about "being a hero", it's about "being a successful adventurer". I don't think WotC would be able to 'sell' an authentic Greyhawk feel and they'd resort to trying to make the default PC be "a hero destined for greatness". [B]Mystara[/B], similar reasons, but also.... there is NO WAY they would be able to do Mystara, The Known World, justice in a single 256pg hardback. They'd need at least, by my estimate, about 1200 pages to even remotely do it justice...and that's being conservative! Mystara is made up of 13 Gazetteers, each with between 75 and 110 or so pages, plus Champions of Mystara (another 250+ pages), Dawn of the Emperors (230+ pages) and Wrath of the Immortals (another 230+ pages). Don't even mention the Creature Crucible books (more demihuman and nonhuman 'classes' to play) or the entirety of the Hollow World part of Mystara. So...I'd rather not have to suffer the knowledge of the indignant "reimagining" of either of my two favourite settings. Selfish of me? Yup. But I don't care. :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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