What Will Happen to Greyhawk?

[Kae'Yoss]

In fact, Eberron and FR fans might be happy that WotC is back in charge of the content, as I expect there will be a lot more Eberron and FR camapign specific material, and very little, if any Greyhwak stuff, which would mostly refer to core content, rather than GH specifically.

I'm a big FR fan, but I'm not happy. Any extra content will probably be in the new online platform, which I won't get unless it's The Greatest Thing They've Ever Done. In fact, I think it's quite likely that unless you pay Wizards money for their new online rag, we'll get a lot less FR - there's no more Dragon or Dungeon to give us FR content, and I don't put it past them to take the stuff they're putting on their normal website now for free and make that exclusive to the paysite: So far the best bet why they've cancelled the mags is because they want to force people to buy into their new thing, and this would be along the same lines.

 

[rounser]

One of the saddest things to come out of all of this is that since Erik and co took over at the helm of Dungeon, there have been lots of references in adventures, not just to Greyhawk, but also to the larger D&D mythos (Isle of Dread, the demon princes, Tamoachan, old monsters such as the flumph and the froghemoth coming back). I'm not sure this will be repeated in WotC's online content and the Paizo guys won't be able to do this in Pathfinder.

Very good point. I think there's a rather large lesson that Paizo can inform homebrew setting DMs of here, too.

 

[RFisher]

What of Greyhawk is going away? How has Greyhawk gone downhill?

Yeah. Every addition to a setting (past a point) tends to kill it a bit for me rather than making it live.

But I'm weird.

 

[Mortellan]

Wizards could keep doing Greyhawk content on their site, leftovers from Dragon like the Core Beliefs by Sean Reynolds (who is a Wizards guy not a Paizo) and the Demonomican series(which ties into their books), but in the end there isn't a whole lot of authors at WotC I'd like to see even doing generihawk.

 

[Ranger REG]

Wizards could keep doing Greyhawk content on their site, leftovers from Dragon like the Core Beliefs by Sean Reynolds (who is a Wizards guy not a Paizo) and the Demonomican series(which ties into their books), but in the end there isn't a whole lot of authors at WotC I'd like to see even doing generihawk.

Unless it's in print, I don't want to pay for such content.

As for your authors dislike, aside from Gygax, who would you want to write for Greyhawk?

 

[haakon1]

As for your authors dislike, aside from Gygax, who would you want to write for Greyhawk?

Robilar, Erik hepMONAland, Wolfgang Baur, and Roger Moore.

 

[Friadoc]

Okay, Ranger REG and Haakon1, I know you're separate people, but dang if the pictures don't make it seem like someone's gone nutso and is talking to them self.

 

[James Heard]

Wizards could keep doing Greyhawk content on their site, leftovers from Dragon like the Core Beliefs by Sean Reynolds (who is a Wizards guy not a Paizo) and the Demonomican series(which ties into their books), but in the end there isn't a whole lot of authors at WotC I'd like to see even doing generihawk.

Er, Sean hasn't worked for WOTC for a long time. I think he's actually employed by Upper Deck right now, and his gaming writing is mostly freelance these days - though I'm not going to speak conclusively on his behalf. You could always check over at his site and ask him about what the status of his Greyhawk related stuff is now.

 

[Ranger REG]

Robilar, Erik hepMONAland, Wolfgang Baur, and Roger Moore.

Aside from Erik Mona, you got confirmations on the other three?

 

[Ranger REG]

Er, Sean hasn't worked for WOTC for a long time. I think he's actually employed by Upper Deck right now, and his gaming writing is mostly freelance these days - though I'm not going to speak conclusively on his behalf. You could always check over at his site and ask him about what the status of his Greyhawk related stuff is now.

SKR may want to merge his other work with this one and call it Ghosthawk.