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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 4792005" data-attributes="member: 2205">This may sound flippant, but it's not.  If you have to ask, the answer is: nothing.  Seriously; there's nothing objective about Greyhawk that makes it unique, unusual, or special.  From a purely objective standpoint, it simply fails to meet any criteria of "special" whatsoever.However, for the folks who grew up playing it, Greyhawk and D&D are basically synonomous.  To them, Greyhawk is D&D.  The flavor of D&D is Greyhawk and the flavor of Greyhawk is D&D.  It's the creation of Gary Gygax himself, it's his distillation of what fantasy gaming is supposed to be like and about.  In fact, a lot of that really long post above I'd disagree with; that doesn't characterize early Greyhawk products.  Like, the original Greyhawk product, which was really more a set of houserules than anything else, nor does it really characterize what (relatively little) I know about Gary's home campaign back in the day.Lots of its fans will try to tell you what Greyhawk means to them, what it is, but I don't think the actual words coming from them are nearly as convincing as the passion.  Greyhawk is D&D.  It boggles my mind a bit that the guy above who was quoted from elsewhere would cite realistic historicity, or however he worded it, as a hallmark of Greyhawk.  Greyhawk was a haphazard mash-up of whatever Gygax was interested in, and that meant jumping around all over the place without much logic or sense, quite frequently.Just like D&D.All that said, I'm not really a big fan...  Greyhawk is too vanilla for my tastes.  By a long shot.</blockquote>

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