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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maldin" data-source="post: 4805652" data-attributes="member: 27170">I'd like to make one further comment, but I wanted to keep it separate from my previous post.It pains me greatly that the above reason why I think Greyhawk is special, is no longer possible. The avenues through which fans made all those contributions to Greyhawk are gone. WotC has gone through periods (though not as long as the most recent epoch) where very little Greyhawk material was published, and I wouldn't be surprised to see periods where they decide to publish something Greyhawkian again. However Dragon and Dungeon magazines were always there. It disturbs me that all signs seem to indicate that fan contributions are effectively (even if not officially) no longer being accepted by those epublications. There is no more Greyhawk being published anywhere (and no, using things like the gods of Greyhawk as generic core articles does not count - I'm talking actually campaign setting material). Greyhawk, as a setting, seems to have been banned. As well, Living Greyhawk is officially dead, and that vast library of material is lost (as in no longer available to anyone, ever).But, you say, Greyhawk may appear as a campaign setting in the next few years. Yes, I've heard all the rumors, and hopes, and prayers... however, even if a new Greyhawk campaign setting book(s) were to come out (in the style of the recent setting re-releases)... that would not bring back the vibrancy of: Greyhawk, Everyone's Home Campaign World. Unless that avenue of continued fan contribution were to open up again. When Erik Mona (as a fan!) was asked to tackle the 3E relaunch of Greyhawk (and Living Greyhawk) with the creation of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, he called on many people from the Greyhawk community (and incorporated material written and published by many other fans over the years), to build it. I don't see that happening again. Frankly, I'm not interested in seeing the complete reinvention of the setting by a single staff writer with a bizarre "hook" (such as jumping the timeline, or gutting the world's canon) working in a vacuum.I WOULD be interested in seeing a new setting book that stayed true to Greyhawk's published past, expanded on new areas of the campaign world, and set the stage for continued support and fan contributions to keep the setting vibrant.Denis, aka "Maldin"Maldin's Greyhawk <a href="http://melkot.com" target="_blank">http://melkot.com</a>Loads of edition-independent Greyhawk Goodness... maps, magic, mysteries, mechanics, and more!</blockquote>

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