What Will Happen to Greyhawk?

[Agamon]

Greyhawk is dead. Long live GH.

Werd.

 

[haakon1]

Yep. RIP Greyhawk. And shortly, D&D itself. Soon we'll all be playing some WotC branded MMORG.

No . Greyhawk is dead. AGAIN. And D&D, well, I got a bad feeling about this. :\

 

[haakon1]

I know that Erik is a true fan of the milieu

Erik Mona is one of us. I know him from the AOL board on Greyhawk, 11 years gone by now. He'd be doing Greyhawk whether he got paid for it or not. I'm proud of him for making it in the bigs.

 

[GAAAHHH]

Yep. RIP Greyhawk. And shortly, D&D itself. Soon we'll all be playing some WotC branded MMORG.

I don't know about you, but I'm not going to be playing with any Mohrgs.

 

[Ron]

Technically, Greyhawk died when Gary left TSR.

Officially, Greyhawk might not see another product for a long, long time - if ever again - but it will never really die as long as there are old grognards around like me to run adventures in it.

I agree with all your statements, but more with the first. However, if Expedition of Castle Greyhawk becomes a bestseller, perhaps Wizards will release a few additional adventures.

 

[an_idol_mind]

If you guys want Greyhawk to live on, buy the upcoming expedition book and support the line. If it sells well enough, it would likely warrant WotC continuing the setting...or at least licensing it out to someone.

 

[Desdichado]

Frankly, I won't shed a tear once new "official" Greyhawk supplements stop coming out. The less stuff that's released, the less they'll continue to ruin my beloved Grehawk.

I know that Erik is a true fan of the milieu, but he is naturally beholden to the corporate masters, and businessmen make piss-poor hobbyists. Even his kindly influence couldn't halt the decline.

If Greyhawk is ever revived, let it be done by a group of true fans of the setting, who are hobbyists themselves, who won't try to approach it with some agenda of "tearing it all down to start over", as was done with FtA, or to try to change its nature to wring more sheckles out of hapless players on hardcover books that should be released as softcovers for half the cost. Let it be revived by those who understand the unique nature of Greyhawk, and who are willing to embrace that nature. And let it be revived by people who don't feel so personally threatened by Gygax and Kuntz that they are creatively locked out of their own creation.

Let it be revived for the right reasons. By people who genuinely love and believe in the setting, rather than someone looking for a quick buck and who sees Greyhawk as the means to make said buck.

No offense, but that sounds like one of the worst ideas ever. For one thing, as already mentioned, these fanboys are unlikely to know the first thing about releasing Greyhawk material profitably. If you lose your shirt trying to do it, you don't do it for long. For another thing, I believe the market for Greyhawk is much smaller than you apparently believe it is. It's a tiny niche market, at best. And for a final thing, getting these Greyhawk fanboys to agree on what should be done with the setting and what kinds of stuff should be published would be entirely impossible anyway. What "ruined" Greyhawk for you may not be at all what "ruined" Greyhawk for someone else, and what you think is exactly the right supplement to put out for it is exactly what someone else things will "ruin" it even further.

Let it not be revived at all, because if it is--either by folks looking for a "quick buck" or by ardent fanboys either way, it'll be an unmitigated disaster IMO.

 

[Ranger REG]

If you guys want Greyhawk to live on, buy the upcoming expedition book and support the line. If it sells well enough, it would likely warrant WotC continuing the setting...or at least licensing it out to someone.

My question to that: Does Gygax really want it back? Will he do anything ... ANYTHING ... to get the license?

 

[haakon1]

My question to that: Does Gygax really want it back? Will he do anything ... ANYTHING ... to get the license?

Assuming that was not a rhetorical question . . .

I asked him once: If someone bought D&D and let him run it again, would he be interested in writing for it again? He said he'd think about it, by which I think he meant yes, if I was serious and the offer was right and he had creative freedom, but no if I was just trying to create controversy.

Sadly, my friends and I don't have $30 m. (Doesn't anybody game at Google?! Then start a darn gaming club and buy D&D with 10 of your friends! )

But I don't think he wants to work full time anymore.

 

[airwalkrr]

You know, if WotC announces sometime in the next few months that they are starting a new Greyhawk adventure line led by Erik Mona with help from the likes of James Jacobs and Jason Buhlman, the blow of losing Dragon and Dungeon would be softened. I might even get over it. But I doubt that will ever happen, because apparently WotC in hates me.