According to Game Informer — "the surprising importance and inclusions of what is arguably the oldest D&D campaign setting of them all – Greyhawk."

So how does Greyhawk fit in? According to GI, the Dungeon Master's Guide contains a sample setting—and that setting is, indeed, Greyhawk. Not only that, but the book will come with a double-sided poster map with the City of Greyhawk on one side and the Flannaes on the other—the eastern part of one of Oerth's four continents.



Even as the multiverse of D&D worlds sees increased attention, the Dungeon Master's Guide also offers a more discrete setting to get gaming groups started. After very few official releases in the last couple of decades, the world of Greyhawk takes center stage.

The book fleshes out Greyhawk to illustrate how to create campaign settings of your own. Greyhawk was the original D&D game world crafted by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax, and a worthy setting to revisit on the occassion of D&D's golden anniversary. It's a world bristling with classic sword and sorcery concepts, from an intrigue-laden central city to wide tracts of uncharted wilderness. Compared to many D&D campaign settings, it's smaller and less fleshed out, and that's sort of the point; it begs for DMs to make it their own.

The book offers ample info to bring Greyhawk to life but leaves much undetailed. For those eager to take the plunge, an included poster map of the Greyhawk setting sets the tone, and its reverse reveals a map of the city of the same name. "A big draw to Greyhawk is it's the origin place for such heroes as Mordenkainen, Tasha, and others," Perkins says. "There's this idea that the players in your campaign can be the next great world-hopping, spell-crafting heroes of D&D. It is the campaign where heroes are born."
- Game Informer�

Also this was released today, "Characters from the classic D&D cartoon get a makeover in this internal art from a chapter opener in the new Player's Handbook. Artist Credit: Dmitry Burmak"

"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.

Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.

This was one of the first replies I saw when the news broke:

 "I love being mindful of the history D&D. A new vision of the Oerth of Greyhawk (and Blackmoor) for this century is awesome.

I am curious, what aspects of the legacy content they will mine and which they will tweak for sensibilities today."

So yes, someone, today.

Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences."

'Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay!' - Kathleen Kennedy (probably)

Where's Sheila? Has the woke gingercide got her as well?

Quote from: Mistwell on May 15, 2024, 01:03:46 AM

Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.

This was one of the first replies I saw when the news broke:

 "I love being mindful of the history D&D. A new vision of the Oerth of Greyhawk (and Blackmoor) for this century is awesome.

I am curious, what aspects of the legacy content they will mine and which they will tweak for sensibilities today."

So yes, someone, today.

He said "nobody," implying an actual person, not the NPCs that follow WotC today.  I fully expect them to shill for WotC and its wokeness...

Quote from: El-V on May 15, 2024, 06:27:06 AMWhere's Sheila? Has the woke gingercide got her as well?

Eric isn't there, either.

Remember, Dungeon Master said that the Cavalier was right more often than he said that of any other character.

I thought the cartoon characters were officially in the Forgotten Realms. Have they moved to Greyhawk?

Based on the font used for the show's title, I would have thought their wrecked roller coaster cart dropped them into Mystara.

I wonder if Gary's original thirteen-level dungeon will be published in the book.

WotC has run the Forgotten Realms setting into the ground. They need something else.

Forgotten Realms didn't get published until several years after the cartoon. Anything placing them in Faerun happened long after the cartoon ended.

Even if they were, WotC took several Greyhawk adventures and set them in Forgotten Realms in 5E, and The War of the Lance got reskinned as Rise of Tiamat. Ignoring some comic book and plopping the cartoon characters onto Oerth is easy.

Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.

This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the announcement.

Quote from: Mistwell on May 14, 2024, 08:17:45 PMAlso this was released today, "Characters from the classic D&D cartoon get a makeover in this internal art from a chapter opener in the new Player's Handbook. Artist Credit: Dmitry Burmak"

I guess they had no room for Sheila? Maybe she has the hood of her cloak of invisibility up.

To clarify, while the DMG will use Greyhawk as a 'how to build a setting' example, the PHB will include images, characters, and references from across D&D's numerous settings.

I think they should include "The Gygax 75 Challenge".

That's one of the better guides for creating a campaign world, in my opinion, and would be compatible with using Greyhawk as an example.

$10 says that the Bandit Kingdoms will be considered too "problematic" and get axed.