D&D (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

[TwoSix]

No, they really don't need to know it. With my example, I just made up the Mystic Order of the Golden Fists. I expect the players to simply use their imaginations and we'll either make something up or adapt their idea to something already existing in the setting.

And considering how bare-bones the initial presentation was, "adapt" can mean something as simple as "use this place name".

 

[Parmandur]

I do love the "dungeon as gold rush" feel.

Gygax's goal with the different nations/regions in Greyhawk is to set up sub-genres of Fantasy as geography, basically: each nation gets their situation briefly described, and is meant to evoke a different set of genre tropes and Adventure possibilities. So Greyhawk the city is there for straight classic Leiber-esque urban picaresque with OG D&D style megadungeon play.

 

[RedSquirrel]

The Greyhawk way.

This is The Way.

 

[Senior_WotC_Janitor]

Greyhawk was confirmed just so you would ask that inane question.

 

[Mournblade94]

Maybe they will at least finally address that it is okay to limit options for the purpose of setting coherence. "Dwarves in Greyhawk can't use arcane magic, so they may not be Wizards."

Lol. No. That is NEVER going to happen.

That's the only way I would run D&D in Greyhawk. I don't think that will be popular with the Actual Play viewers who seem to be the bulk of the base right now. At least on paper.

 

[Reynard]

Greyhawk was confirmed just so you would ask that inane question.

Thanks for chiming in.

 

[Senior_WotC_Janitor]

Greyhawk truly is the most quantum of settings, at once completely nothing and the best setting ever! But sure, anyone can pick three random words from the folio and call it their backstory.

Most idiotic comment of 2024 so far.

 

[Mournblade94]

I've got nothing for Steven Universe. (Confess to needing to go look it up).

Does Steven Universe relate to D&D at all?

 

[Reynard]

Does Steven Universe relate to D&D at all?

I have seen the aesthetic tied to D&D in illustrations in various reddit D&D spaces.

 

[Umbran]

Greyhawk was confirmed just so you would ask that inane question.

Most idiotic comment of 2024 so far.

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