Parmandur
Book-Friend
I mean, the people who are upset want a Greyhawk that removes material from the core books...which won't ever happen.
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D&D (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.
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Nah
What I am saying is that a player will make a Dragonborn in Greyhawk and have characters that are not tied and have bonds to the setting. And there are drawbacks to that.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
In a general, PH sense that would be just fine. The name is still a problem though, because it assumes something fairly important about history; namely, that every setting using them had a war in which manufactured life was created and used. A great story (like I said I love robots), but not one every setting should have to include.
Demetrios1453
Hero
I definitely want it on the Guild too! I know the Greyhawk creator community out there will have lots of great products up very shortly after it's released to the Guild.
AstroCat
Adventurer
Sure, come up with a cool way to introduce Dragonborn... they could be from a lost valley, or uncharted land where a ship has gone astray and landed. Any way to introduce a new entity into the setting without breaking the world. As others have noted the setting is very forgiving to funky and weird. It doesn't have to be DB were always in every town and every place because we say so. Some thought could be put into it and make it dare I say, cool... or if you don't like DB or whatever avoidable in your home game. But this seems to be too extreme of a though process, because it holds some preservation and respect for the original setting, and I am learning that is thought of as a bad thing for reasons.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
That’s not the problem of those people. It’s no excuse for attacking them.
There are ways of expressing that disaffection whilst being happy for the people who like the current take. And you are more likely to win people over wish positivity than negativity.
And you say you like Level Up. So it’s not as if you are completely alone and no one is making stuff you like. Why care what WotC are doing? I’m not planning and rushing out and buying the new rulebooks, old rules, new rules, it’s not important to me (and I always thought World of Greyhawk was garbage). I just hope the new DMG does a better job of encouraging people to become DMs, increasing my chance of some time off.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I'm telling you it's the name.
Warpiglet-7
Cry havoc! And let slip the pigs of war!
All good. There are many reasonable people out there if you look. Compromises can be had!
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I care about setting integrity in general (its a soapbox of mine), and many settings I care about are owned by WotC and only they get to decide what to do with them. As I said above, I don't really care about Greyhawk personally, but the principle is the same and I do care about that.
And again, saying I don't like a stance that a lot of people do like is NOT the same as attacking said people. I suppose to make you happy I should omit the fact that anyone holds any particular opinion at all, and pretend this is all in a vacuum to avoid the possibility of offending you on their behalf. In the future I will endeavor to do just that.
Thank you for showing me what you think the public thinks of my remarks.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
No, anyone can decide what to do with them.
“Setting Integrity” is just another way of saying everyone should be playing in the same way.
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