Sales of upcoming Greyhawk Ruins will determine it's future

[Emirikol]

Heh.
Folks looking for new Greyhawk stuff should check out "Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk," which I believe hits in August from Wizards of the Coast. The way I hear it, they'll be taking a close look at those sales to determine the nature of future Greyhawk support.
--Erik

Thoughts? Is GH dead already? With 4E won't it just be retired?

jh

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

If anything, Id almost expect it to offer a potential to revive the setting. WOTC doesnt want to compete against themselves with a dozen settings like TSR did, but if Greyhawk has a stronger following than they had anticipated, it might get some mroe books. Despite my distaste for midieval european fantasy, I think its a better choice for new DM's over the realms, which is crammed full of mega NPC's and metaplots dominated by books. Were I to run the Age of Worms in the realms, my players would be asking why Elminster and the other 50 cheaters of Mystra (or any of the other Superfriends) didnt fart twice after rolling out of bed and solve everything.

A 4th edition Greyhawk could combine some elements of Iron Heroes to have a lower magic variant setting, with Eberron representing a higher magic setting.

 

[Henry]

All I know is I've earmarked myself to buy this book when it comes out, because (1) I love good mega-dungeons, even just for reading purposes, (2) I like Greyhawk, and wish it continued existance, and (3) Castle Greyhawk holds a special spot for me as "the Mother of all Dungeons." I had really high hopes for the Gary and Rob version for C&C, but Rob's inability to continue and Gary's limitations on writing time has kinda put a hurting on the project, last I heard. I remember Castle Greyhawk with lots of fondness, both Gary's and Tim Brown's versions.

 

[Sigurd]

I can see a logic that leaves Forgotten Realms 3e and Greyhawk 4e, at least initially.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I'll have to grab this just to support the setting, plus I'm concerned about the future of CZ.

 

[Greg K]

So, they are testing the market with an adventure? How lame. Many people such as myself don't buy adventures. Just put out a *!$#@ setting book and let that test the waters. If the setting book doesn't do well then that is your indication that people are not interested. If it does do well, give it support via region books, city books, etc.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I would love to see a City of Greyhawk hardcover as lavish and detailed as the one for Sharn.

Just put out a *!$#@ setting book and let that test the waters.

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

I'm really looking forward to this book! No idea if we'll ever see a full hardcover GH book though. It's a shame as the LGG is excellent but a bigger book with regional and city maps in colour would have been great.

Cheers


Richard

 

[Ranger REG]

So, they are testing the market with an adventure? How lame. Many people such as myself don't buy adventures. Just put out a *!$#@ setting book and let that test the waters. If the setting book doesn't do well then that is your indication that people are not interested. If it does do well, give it support via region books, city books, etc.

If you're a GH fan, you may want to consider.

If not, walk on by. There's nothing to see.

 

[Numion]

So, they are testing the market with an adventure? How lame. Many people such as myself don't buy adventures.

WotC is probably intelligent enough to judge an adventure by adventure sales standard. So, it won't have to sell as much as a campaign setting book to be deemed succesful.

IMO there's nothing lame in first doing a product that requires less initial investment, and then do a campaign setting book that's worthy of GH. Because if they don't, they might not put as much work in it as they will in a situation they know there'll be demand for it.