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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: Death of Greyhawk
I was reading on WOTC website that the Living Greyhawk campaign will be discontinued by the end of this year. So no more official products, no more support by the RPGA - is this the end of the oldest D&D world? _________________ Tome of Treasures - #1 resource for collectible role-playing games.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:31 pm Post subject:
Stranger things have happened but I doubt they would completely give up on one of their most popular campaign settings. I would not be surprised with some sort of change but I am sure Greyhawk will live on in some form.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:22 am Post subject:
Yep, GH is heading for the grave, again. Since its inception, GH has pretty-much been killed outright twice: 1993-1997 (the span between the end of the post-Gygax-departure/Sargent era support for early 2e and the relaunch of the Greyhawk 98 products), and 2001-2004 (the time between the publication of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer/the launch of the LG campaign [which ironically made GH "supported" but not generally available outside of the RPGA] and GH as the "core setting" [which got to be more drek from a classic GH POV as the years rolled by] and the beginning of the "PaizoHawk" era of GH support [with Maure Castle, the Age of Worms and Savage Tide APs, etc.]).
This time of GH as undead won't (hopefully) be any different from other interregnums, and GH will rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the "points of light" crap they're coming up with now
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:53 am Post subject:
Allan do you still play GH?
I am considering starting a GH campaign with my old players (574 with N1...) if time permits. _________________ Tome of Treasures - #1 resource for collectible role-playing games.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:30 am Post subject:
I doubt we'll ever see GH supported as a setting by WotC ever again. Its only chance as a published setting is if it gets licensed out to another company to tackle but I doubt WotC will want the competition. It will live on with us though...
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:23 am Post subject:
vermilionfire wrote:
I doubt we'll ever see GH supported as a setting by WotC ever again. Its only chance as a published setting is if it gets licensed out to another company to tackle but I doubt WotC will want the competition. It will live on with us though...
And I think you are absolutely correct on this. It is exactly what I thought. First Dragon/Dungeon, now Greyhawk and what's next? And Gary is gone now... this is no good year for D&D. _________________ Tome of Treasures - #1 resource for collectible role-playing games.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject:
Ralf Toth wrote:
Allan do you still play GH?
I do, though I'm not at the moment (I'm playing in Caverns of Thracia, which is awesome! ). I will pick up DMing in GH again once I am in a position to run S4 for our players sometime after CoT, though. I'm also planning out stuff for the Maure Castle environs (a more-expanded high-level setting than just the castle, including the extended lands/wilderness of the Maures and some other sundry properties like monasteries they supported, etc.).
Ralf Toth wrote:
I am considering starting a GH campaign with my old players (574 with N1...) if time permits.
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