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<blockquote data-quote="epithet" data-source="post: 7766458" data-attributes="member: 6796566"><p>Not sure what you mean. Most of the D&D 5e published adventures seem like they would have been much more appropriately set on Oerth instead of Toril. For example, the Tomb of Annihilation is a mashup of Tomb of Horrors (from Greyhawk) and Dwellers of the Forbidden City (also Greyhawk.) It should have been set in Hepmonaland, not Chult. Princes of the Apocalypse is a sequel to the Temple of Elemental Evil, involving the resurgence of the cult of Tharizdun. This should have been a Greyhawk adventure. Out of the Abyss could as easily be about the shenanigans of a rogue wizard of House Eliservs, from Erelhei-Cinlu. Storm King's Thunder seems like a sequel to Against the Giants, and could as easily have been set in the World of Greyhawk.</p><p></p><p>WotC seems intent on taking the stories of the World of Greyhawk and carrying them forward with content that is totally appropriate for that setting... and then wrenching them away to force them into the Forgotten Realms. It's pretty obviously a way to support tie-in video game content and the novels and characters written by Salvator and Greenwood, but these adventures have clear Greyhawk DNA. Even the latest adventure, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, is a throwback to the original D&D campaign, the dungeon (Castle Greyhawk) of the mad mage (Zagig Yragerne,) featuring his old apprentice (Iggwilv, aka Tasha.)</p><p></p><p>It seems almost as if the D&D team are writing adventures specifically for the World of Greyhawk, then adapting them to fit their generic "kitchen sink" setting to facilitate cross-marketing. Like there's someone there at WotC who looks at every adventure being playtested and says "That's great, but before it's published we need to put Drizzit and Minsk in there somewhere. Oh, and show me where it is relative to the Sword Coast." Perhaps behind the illusion of an unassuming librarian-turned-author, Ed Greenwood is actually a ruthless tyrant who, with his Sith apprentice Darth Salvatore, crushes all dissent from Mearls or Perkins who nevertheless keep trying to produce Greyhawk adventures.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="epithet, post: 7766458, member: 6796566"] Not sure what you mean. Most of the D&D 5e published adventures seem like they would have been much more appropriately set on Oerth instead of Toril. For example, the Tomb of Annihilation is a mashup of Tomb of Horrors (from Greyhawk) and Dwellers of the Forbidden City (also Greyhawk.) It should have been set in Hepmonaland, not Chult. Princes of the Apocalypse is a sequel to the Temple of Elemental Evil, involving the resurgence of the cult of Tharizdun. This should have been a Greyhawk adventure. Out of the Abyss could as easily be about the shenanigans of a rogue wizard of House Eliservs, from Erelhei-Cinlu. Storm King's Thunder seems like a sequel to Against the Giants, and could as easily have been set in the World of Greyhawk. WotC seems intent on taking the stories of the World of Greyhawk and carrying them forward with content that is totally appropriate for that setting... and then wrenching them away to force them into the Forgotten Realms. It's pretty obviously a way to support tie-in video game content and the novels and characters written by Salvator and Greenwood, but these adventures have clear Greyhawk DNA. Even the latest adventure, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, is a throwback to the original D&D campaign, the dungeon (Castle Greyhawk) of the mad mage (Zagig Yragerne,) featuring his old apprentice (Iggwilv, aka Tasha.) It seems almost as if the D&D team are writing adventures specifically for the World of Greyhawk, then adapting them to fit their generic "kitchen sink" setting to facilitate cross-marketing. Like there's someone there at WotC who looks at every adventure being playtested and says "That's great, but before it's published we need to put Drizzit and Minsk in there somewhere. Oh, and show me where it is relative to the Sword Coast." Perhaps behind the illusion of an unassuming librarian-turned-author, Ed Greenwood is actually a ruthless tyrant who, with his Sith apprentice Darth Salvatore, crushes all dissent from Mearls or Perkins who nevertheless keep trying to produce Greyhawk adventures. [/QUOTE]
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