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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8072918" data-attributes="member: 11760">Given that Oerth was the 1E baseline, there really aren't a lot of compelling monsters that are native to it. The ones Gygax added (the grugach and valley elves, for instance) are OK at best and the ones his successors did, trying to give the world more of an identity, are not great.So an Oerth book would likely be an updated gazetteer with subraces for those grugach and valley elves (exciting a handful of people at most), some fairly generic D&D subclasses, 5E updates of some missing 1E spells and artifacts (nice, but nothing players can't trivially do themselves) and that's it.Because what Oerth fans really hate is screwing with the setting, whether it's the Greyhawk Wars or the incredibly stupid and petty Castle Greyhawk module or Erik Mona touching stuff. There's no real upside in WotC trying to update the setting, because a large portion of their target audience will be pissed that they did so.Best to just open the setting up on DMs Guild and let fans make their own content for it and do something with a bigger upside for the company's bottom line.</blockquote>