What setting is the PHB set in?

[greycastle]

Currently our DM wants to start a new campaign but with the 'normal' dieties, ie. Pelor, kord, etc. The world in which most published adventures are set. However i'm having a dispute about what world it actaully is set in.

I saw it's in Greyhawk.

He says its a 'nuetral' world.

What is it?

 

[Darklone]

It used to be Greyhawk. They have no official setting right now IMHO.

 

[Olive]

now thats a greyhawk fan answer fro ya.

the answer according to WotC, is Greyhawk. It amy be a neutered Greyhawk, or a crap version of it, but they say it's greyhawk so i guess it is!

 

[diaglo]

it is supposed to be Greyhawk.

however, many disagree that it is.

 

[Enceladus]

It isn't not Greyhawk.

 

[Madfox]

The gods are from Greyhawk, the rest is just generic none-campaign world related information. It is not as if there are that many references to a specific world... Anyway, you will need a lot more information before you could run a campaign that would be considered a Greyhawk campaign

 

[hong]

Currently our DM wants to start a new campaign but with the 'normal' dieties, ie. Pelor, kord, etc. The world in which most published adventures are set. However i'm having a dispute about what world it actaully is set in.

I saw it's in Greyhawk.

He says its a 'nuetral' world.

What is it?

Technically, the default D&D world is Greyhawk. However, GH is generic enough that it really makes little difference.


Hong "pay no attention to the oldtimers behind the curtain" Ooi

 

[AuraSeer]

Most published adventures don't have any particular world dependencies. The adventure locales can be placed in almost any generic world. Good ones will even tell you where to place the locale (near a city, on a caravan track, whatever) to help the adventure background make sense.

Higher-level adventures may depend on a certain cosmology, because they make assumptions about how planar travel works. That shouldn't affect you unless your DM is planning to redesign the whole multiverse.

 

[Staffan]

I'd call the default setting "Greyhawk Lite". It looks a lot like Greyhawk, but it is a pretty watered-down version of it.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Yea, I'd say you're both true, partially, but not completely. They use many elements of the Grayhawk campaign setting, but try to keep world-specific elements out of the core rules. It's somewhere between a totally neutral setting and Grayhawk. You could call it Diet Grayhawk or something.