The Forgotten Realms, ironically, are not the Realms which have been Forgotten.

[Minato]

Oh, absolutely. The first time I saw Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, my brain interpreted the title as it being a adventure revolving around you LITERALLY STEALING A DRAGON and I got stoked (there's a first edition Shadowrun adventure that is pretty much exactly that, but I digress), and I was super disappointed when all that was being heisted was a bunch of gold coins. So now I'm working on "The REAL Dragonheist" (where you do in fact have to STEAL A DRAGON) and yes it's set in Greyhawk and the Free City of Greyhawk and Waterdeep mirror each other quite a bit, and a lot is interchangeable between them.



I suppose you don't want to hear about my other campaign/adventure I'm working on then, which is set in Greyhawk and includes...elements of Spelljammer, lol.

I mean, it should have said "Hunt for the Dragon Hoard." but we already had a Dragon Hoard thing so.

 

[ParanoydStyle]

I think I've just kind of fixated on the idea of an adventure where you go to the bottom of an (XYZ) level dungeon, at the dragon all the way at the bottom isn't the BOSS, he's the McGuffin.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

Based on how the Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron turned up as a pdf on DMsGuild, it's possible that Greyhawk and Dragonlance may get the same type of release, since there's less cost investment risk with digital sales as opposed to print sales.

The advent of the digital market may have made it more possible for Greyhawk and Dragonlance to be seriously considered for official 5e releases.

 

[ParanoydStyle]

Do we have a Greyhawk expert or at least veteran amongst us?

I'm working towards a Greyhawk 5E campaign, and there is MUCH less available about the setting in wiki form than for some of the better known settings (Dragonlance has a GREAT wiki and I'm sure Faerun does too).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Do we have a Greyhawk expert or at least veteran amongst us?

I'm working towards a Greyhawk 5E campaign, and there is MUCH less available about the setting in wiki form than for some of the better known settings (Dragonlance has a GREAT wiki and I'm sure Faerun does too).

I'm old enough to own then 1st edition "World of Greyhawk" setting book. The thing with the original Greyhawk publications is they contain zero crunch. They consist entirely of maps and descriptions of places, organisations, and histories - largely in broad strokes without much detail. Greyhawk has never had any setting-specific rules, races or classes (and the subrace names in the 5e PHB are already the Greyhawk names).

 

[Azzy]

Do we have a Greyhawk expert or at least veteran amongst us?

To an extent, I am a Greyhawk veteran. I don't count myself as an expert, though.

I'm working towards a Greyhawk 5E campaign, and there is MUCH less available about the setting in wiki form than for some of the better known settings (Dragonlance has a GREAT wiki and I'm sure Faerun does too).

The best resource for Greyhawk information is Canonfire. They have their own forums, too, with plenty of experts on the setting.

I'm old enough to own then 1st edition "World of Greyhawk" setting book. The thing with the original Greyhawk publications is they contain zero crunch. They consist entirely of maps and descriptions of places, organisations, and histories - largely in broad strokes without much detail. Greyhawk has never had any setting-specific rules, races or classes (and the subrace names in the 5e PHB are already the Greyhawk names).

That's not entirely true—the 1e boxed set had rules for clerics of each god being differtent from each other (a precursor to 2e's specialty clerics), there were some bits of crunch in the various 2e sources, and 3e started introducing feats and prestige classes. But most of the Greyhawk-specific crunch came in the form of spells, magic items, and monsters.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I said "original". The boxed set wasn't the original publication, which was more like a (large) booklet wrapped in a world map. Greyhawk has obviously accumulated more stuff and had some fleshing out (and in 3.0e major retcons) as time went on.

Things like the hand and eye of Vecna, wich I expect you consider as "Greyhawk specifc", where first published in the 1st edition DMG without any setting specified.

 

[ParanoydStyle]

"Greyhawk 5E" is one of the projects I'll be working in coming months, but it will be divided into small, unrelated modules at first.

Every setting where there isn't Vecna is inferior to one where there is. Fact. Science. But that's okay. Because Vecna is a planeswalker, coming to your Material Plane sometime soon! Forgotten Realms? Vecna. Krynn? Vecna. Eberron? Steampunk Cyber-Vecna. Golarion? Screw you, have some Vecna!

 

[Azzy]

"Greyhawk 5E" is one of the projects I'll be working in coming months, but it will be divided into small, unrelated modules at first.

Every setting where there isn't Vecna is inferior to one where there is. Fact. Science. But that's okay. Because Vecna is a planeswalker, coming to your Material Plane sometime soon! Forgotten Realms? Vecna. Krynn? Vecna. Eberron? Steampunk Cyber-Vecna. Golarion? Screw you, have some Vecna!

Well, he DOES have the best artifacts.

 

[Arnwolf666]

I have such a hunger for mystara with their
Classic cosmology and spheres at the moment.

And I want to play a pooka from tall tales of the wee folk