When did you give up on Greyhawk?

[Zendragon]

As a follow up to this thread When did you start greyhawk? when did you stop using Greyhawk? I started middle 80's but gave it up pretty quickly when DM created homebrew. He would just take some published adventures, and place them in his world.

 

[jaerdaph]

Around 1987, when the first Forgotten Realms campaign box came out.

 

[EricNoah]

I never did "learn" Greyhawk particularly thoroughly even though I owned the first boxed set. I think the first setting I really "learned" was FR when it was first released. I never did go back to Greyhawk after that. Maybe it was because FR was new and I could get in on the ground floor and learn stuff as it was being published.

 

[Nifft]

I have played Greyhawk, but never particularly cared about it as a setting. It was nice, but ... somehow I just never felt attached.

Cheers, -- N

 

[der_kluge]

I've always considered Greyhawk to be the most generic campaign setting. I don't mean that as a slam - I think that was it's purpose.

But, as a result, I don't think there's much "gee whiz" about Greyhawk - it's just *there*.

For years, I never had a campaign setting, per se. I ran a lot of Planescape, and Al-Qadim and played in quite a bit of Dark Sun - so those were our campaign settings.

When I a ran a "generic" game, I ran with the Forgotten Realms maps and gods. I didn't stick to canon much (no one cared), and it seemed a far more interesting, and more importantly - far more detailed place than Greyhawk was.

Nowadays, I use the Wilderlands. It's arguably as "generic" as Greyhawk is, but it's FAR FAR FAR more detailed.

 

[ioun_stone]

After my first two years or so of gaming, I turned to thinking about setting, and that's when I discovered the '83 boxed set. I bought it and was hooked! I've never given up on Oerth, although for the past couple of years we've been on Eberron (I haven't DMed in nearly three years, the last time being the Scarred Lands, another "dead" setting I love). I'd love to see new Greyhawk product, but I realize it is unlikely.

Greyhawk is dead.

Long live Greyhawk!

 

[slimykuotoan]

You guys MUST get the original boxed set, before all the 'after gygax' influence.

Honestly...

 

[T. Foster]

1990s (the Greyhawk Wars boxed set was the first thing I outright refused to buy) but in retrospect it should've been the 1980s (I could easily do without ever having owned WG7: Castle Greyhawk or Master Wolf...).

 

[seskis281]

1990s (the Greyhawk Wars boxed set was the first thing I outright refused to buy) but in retrospect it should've been the 1980s (I could easily do without ever having owned WG7: Castle Greyhawk or Master Wolf...).

Yeah I have the comedy Castle Greyhawk on shelf and haven't even bothered to try and sell it because I can't really conceive of anyone wanting it...

 

[EyeontheMountain]

Greyhawk has always been one of my setting choices since I started playing D&D. Sometimes I play there, sometime homebrew, and sometimes in another campaign world. But Greyhawk is my default setting, the one I use if I don't really care what setting my game is set in.

I am running a greyhawk game, now, actually.