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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 7469496" data-attributes="member: 19857">I think this is why Wizards would be foolish to do almost anything at all with Greyhawk.Their best approach would be to just open it up on DM's Guild, provide the boxed set (with no updates) as the &quot;world bible&quot; for the setting (and fix the maps in it) and tell everyone &quot;OK - go to town.&nbsp; Put out the Greyhawk products you want!&quot;&nbsp; Even allow folks to produce new content for any edition of D&amp;D set in Greyhawk rather than restricting it to 5e.Second best approach would be to create a new PDF document that strips out all of the rules information from the boxed set and just provides the system-neutral information and let that be the &quot;world bible&quot;.&nbsp; Then let people publish using that.Literally anything that Wizards does around Greyhawk will be &quot;wrong&quot; to some subset of Greyhawk fans.&nbsp; You aren't going to get the goodwill that Eberron gets because the creator of the setting cannot be involved in it - so why do it?&nbsp; Just get the goodwill of opening the setting up for the fans, then step back and let the fans produce the material (and take your cut, of course). And I think that's what they should do with Mystara as well, though Mystara loses out by not having a single campaign setting document that can be used as a &quot;bible&quot; the way that Greyhawk does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 7469496, member: 19857"] I think this is why Wizards would be foolish to do almost anything at all with Greyhawk. Their best approach would be to just open it up on DM's Guild, provide the boxed set (with no updates) as the "world bible" for the setting (and fix the maps in it) and tell everyone "OK - go to town. Put out the Greyhawk products you want!" Even allow folks to produce new content for any edition of D&D set in Greyhawk rather than restricting it to 5e. Second best approach would be to create a new PDF document that strips out all of the rules information from the boxed set and just provides the system-neutral information and let that be the "world bible". Then let people publish using that. Literally anything that Wizards does around Greyhawk will be "wrong" to some subset of Greyhawk fans. You aren't going to get the goodwill that Eberron gets because the creator of the setting cannot be involved in it - so why do it? Just get the goodwill of opening the setting up for the fans, then step back and let the fans produce the material (and take your cut, of course). And I think that's what they should do with Mystara as well, though Mystara loses out by not having a single campaign setting document that can be used as a "bible" the way that Greyhawk does. [/QUOTE]

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