Greyhawk will feature in the �#onednd� DMG. If you are a fan, you should NOT be happy about this.
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I suspect this is to re-affirm their copyrights and trademarks.

wotc is notorious for letting copyrights they acquire slip through their inept fingers.

Quote from: Omega on May 17, 2024, 03:47:40 AMI suspect this is to re-affirm their copyrights and trademarks.

wotc is notorious for letting copyrights they acquire slip through their inept fingers.

I think it probably has more to do with it being the 50th anniversary. So they wanted to ruin one of the earliest D&D settings.

Quote from: Omega on May 17, 2024, 03:47:40 AMI suspect this is to re-affirm their copyrights and trademarks.

wotc is notorious for letting copyrights they acquire slip through their inept fingers.

A copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years. You don't have to "re-affirm" it.
A trademark does need to be used in some fashion and needs to not become genericized, but I really doubt that this is a problem for "Greyhawk".



Ok anyway, I'm going to rain on Pundit's parade a bit here.  I'm gonna predict that Greyhawk will be in the DMG as a map, some place names, and the ability to start a campaign in some spot.  I would hope that the gods would be listed with some brief descriptions. In 3.X, Greyhawk as a default setting (across all the books) also had some further ramifications, like being able to be a cleric of good, instead of picking a god (forgotten realms has never allowed such an option), but this actually showed up as a core capability of the 3.0 cleric, with setting-specific material stripping it away in most cases.

In other words, I don't think they need to actually pick a fight here in the DMG, or engage in random anti-traditionalist attacks.  I will definitely agree that this would be their first priority if they actually announce Greyhawk as a full setting.