Reviving Greyhawk: A letter-writing campaign.

[jokamachi]

if you wish to write a letter, be polite yet direct about your feelings for Greyhawk. Point out what you do and do not like about Wotc's current products and emphasize your desire for new products based on D&D's classic setting. If you like, you might mention a compilation of the Living Greyhawk Journal (one idea that has been floated recently) as there are a number of people talking about it as a realistic goal for Greyhawk. Lastly, you could mention that the RPGA's underfunding for Greyhawk is unacceptable and that Wotc should attempt to remedy that financial shortcoming.

 

[Erik Mona]

I'd love to be involved in a project to collect the best articles from the LGJs (and relevant GH articles from Dragon, too, for that matter).

It'd be really fun to do, and we'd love to find a way to make it work, I assure you.

--Erik

 

[BrooklynKnight]

I'd love to be involved in a project to collect the best articles from the LGJs (and relevant GH articles from Dragon, too, for that matter).

It'd be really fun to do, and we'd love to find a way to make it work, I assure you.

--Erik

Erik: I dont mean to hijack this thread but I emailed ya at your paizo/poly email address a few times about something we spoke about at Gencon. I havnt recieved a reply yet. If you havnt gotten it, or if you have, could you please email me at VongKiller18@aol.com ? Thanks

Edit: Fixed email to VongKiller18@aol.com

 

[sluggo the sleazebag]

I'd love to get my hands on an LGJ compilation. There used to be an occasional best of Dragon, and that still sells well on ebay, so How could a LGJ compilation fail? It might not sell as many copies as an FR book might, but it would sell enough to justify its publication. LGJ does that already.

 

[jokamachi]

I heard from an anonymous source today that our letters were creating a mild rumbling at Wotc, one not unlike the effect of multiple wishes on the floating detritus of a dead god. While this information may be erroneous, I prefer to look on it as something hopeful. In the meantime, keep those letters coming...

 

[Endur]

Just a quick comment that I think that if really interesting authors were writing the D&D novels, the sales figures would be much higher.

Some people like Ru Emerson and Paul Kidd, others can't stand their writing. But nobody claims that Ru and Paul can compete successfully with R.A. Salvatore or Weis & Hickman.

Against the Giants
by Ru Emerson
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 111,852

Queen of the Demonweb Pits
by Paul Kidd
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 61,381

TSR side
Saga of Old City (Greyhawk Adventures Novels, Book 1)
by Gary Gygax
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 262,860

The Eyes Have It (A Greyhawk Adventures Novel)
by Rose Estes
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 566,483

Sea of Death
by Gary Gygax
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 555,878

 

[jokamachi]

Another bump for those unfamiliar with the letter-drive.

 

[jokamachi]

Another source confirmed yesterday that our letters have called more attention to Greyhawk's current state of affairs. So if you haven't written a follow-up letter to Wizards, this might be a good time to do it.

Any suggestion concerning Greyhawk is worth the attention of game designers, but the idea of a Living Greyhawk Journal compilation has been gaining ground, so if you don't know what to include in your letter, that may be a good topic to focus upon.

 

[Selvarin]

I bought the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer a while back, and it's the worst D20 purchase I've ever made. The artwork isn't very good, and (as someone else mentioned in another thread) the descriptive text is as dry as a college textbook. Which is a pity, because Greyhawk seems like it could be a neat setting. Even though I'm first and foremost a Forgotten Realms fan, Greyhawk has played a major role in D&D history, being one of the very first campaign settings ever published.

It would be very neat to see Greyhawk recieve a hardcover sourcebook that includes high-quality illustrations and lots of details like the Forgotten Realms did. I doubt it'll happen, though.

Yep, yep, and yep. 100% agreed. I was happy it came out initially (despite being a FR gamer by then) but was sorely disappointed by the artwork and layout. The cover art was decent, at least. A single Greyhawk hardcover would be sweet, even at the usual $30-$40 price tag I've been seeing so much of lately.

 

[johnsemlak]

The artwork may have been bad, but I thought the material of the LGG was pretty good reading. It had virtually no 'crunch' (which can be good or bad), but lots of setting info, and much of it was new.

I'm happy I bought it, at least.