When did you start using Greyhawk?

[NiTessine]

2004, when I first sat in a Living Greyhawk game at Ropecon.

It's an interesting and cool setting that I want to see more of. I think the greatest problem it has is that it's very, very generic. Baseline D&D fantasy. From a distance, nearly indistinguishable from Forgotten Realms or Dragonlance, both vastly more popular settings. Sadly, I see little future for Greyhawk outside of the Living campaign and Canonfire, now that Dragon is gone.

 

[Desdichado]

I'm not a fan of Greyhawk per se, and I've only played one campaign set there.

However, it also happens to be the current campaign I'm in, which is an Age of Worms game. I think the DM decided that converting the campaign arc to another setting was 1) too much work, and 2) had very little tangible payoff anyway, so why bother. I would really have liked to see it in Eberron, with Sharn taking the place of Greyhawk earlier when we were doing the arena and other "Free City" portions of the adventure, but honestly; I got what I wanted anyway. My two characters in that campaign have been respectively, a Changeling and a Shifter anyway.

 

[diaglo]

i was never a fan of Supplement I Greyhawk (1975).

but i did get talked into using the material from it in 1979.

i bought the folio in 1980.

 

[dpmcalister]

Living Greyhawk was my first game and, indeed, my only Greyhawk games have been LG games. Of the TSR/WotC campaign worlds, I was always a fan of FR (although stopped buying anything for that when 3.5 came out - I couldn't keep up!)

 

[Infernal Teddy]

Somewhere 10 and 12 years agon, when I bought "The City of Greyhawk" and "The 1983 (?) Box" second hand

 

[Greg K]

I started Greyhawk with the folio, but stopped using Greyhawk in the mid eighties when I created my own homebrew setting.

 

[Mycanid]

Yeppers ... read the 1979 stuff. Read the earlier book Diaglo mentions, but I had no idea what it meant. :\ I was 10 or 11 at the time.

Anyhoo ... Greyhawk has been my default campaign since.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

I only started using Greyhawk elements in my game with 3.5e came out. I really like the classic feel of the setting and the toolbox approach to it presented in the books (ie, no canon to bog it down, just names and brief descriptions).

 

[billd91]

Hmmm... So far the numbers seem to support my theory: Greyhawk seems to be mostly popular with gamers who started using it a long time ago.

And that's not encouraging for those who wish to see it released anew as one of WotC's flagship setting on par with the Forgotten Realms or Eberron - after all, if a setting cannot attract many new customers, it is unlikely to sell well enough to justify the expense. At least for a publisher on the scale of WotC, that is...

Well, the theory is a bit simplistic. GH isn't attracting as many new customers since the only new official product for it in the recent past is Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. GH has had nowhere near the support of FR or Eberron out of WotC aside from the rather tepid declaration that it was the "default" world. Support has mainly been from parallel streams like the RPGA's LG campaign or Paizo's Dungeon Magazine.

So, if younger gamers aren't as attracted to it, it's no surprise. They haven't had it marketed to them like FR and Eberron.

 

[Waldorf]

Why, the folio of course. It was 1980... or so.