Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

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Wizards of the Coast does not appear to have future plans for the Greyhawk setting past the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Speaking at a press event earlier this month, Dungeons & Dragons game architect Chris Perkins explained that the inclusion of Greyhawk campaign setting material in the upcoming rulebook was meant to stand on its own. "Basically, we're saying 'Hey DMs, we're giving you Greyhawk as a foundation on which you can build your own setting stuff,'" Perkins said when asked about future Greyhawk setting material. "Whether we get back to Greyhawk or not in some capacity I cannot say, but that's our intention for now. This is the sandbox, it's Greyhawk. Go off and run Greyhawk or Greyhawk-like campaigns with this if you wish. We may not come to this version of Greyhawk for a while because we DMs to own it and play with it. This is not a campaign setting where I think we need to go in and start defining large sections of the world and adding more weight of content that DMs have to sit through in order to feel like they're running a proper Greyhawk campaign."

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide includes a campaign setting gazetteer focused on the Greyhawk setting, one of D&D's earliest campaign settings. The use of Greyhawk is intended to be an example for DMs on how to build a full-fledged campaign setting, with an overview of major conflicts and places to explore within the world. New maps of both Oerth and the city of Greyhawk are also included in the rulebook.

However, while it seems like Wizards isn't committing to future Greyhawk campaign setting material, Perkins admitted that the fans still have a say in the matter. "We're not so immutable with our plans that if the fans rose up and said 'Give us something Greyhawk,' that we would say 'No, never,'" Perkins said. "That won't happen."

Perkins also teased the appearance of more campaign settings in the future. "We absolutely will be exploring new D&D worlds and that door is always open," Perkins said.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer

Well, good, as a Greyhawk fan thst makes me happy. A basic introduction is all that Greyhawk needs. They just opened it up on the DMsGuild, so the fans can go hogwild now.

Future Adventure products will probblly have location suggestions for Greyhawk, as they have for a long time. That plus the Gazateer is everything necessary to keep Greyhawk current.
 

Not a bad concept in showing DMs how to set up something and give some details and just references to farther away places in the world as an example. Easy enough for them to take some old stuff and fit it into the book without creating a new setting.

I'd be interested to see how long they can stay away before making another book on GH. May just depend on demand and this is a trial balloon.
 

This gets a sigh from me. The point of entry for new DMs is ... the DMG. And if the campaign focus of the DMG is going to be Greyhawk, new DMs will be interested in it. Just like it was with the Realms. Not having further products planned makes me wonder why they went with it in the first place.

I see there is going to be a Realms campaign book next year. That would be the perfect followup to the Realms being the focus for the DMG. Building a brand comes out of the on-ramp for the game.

But it honestly does not surprise me in any way.
 

That's fine with me. With Greyhawk opened to the DM's Guild, the community will fill in any gaps and content needs. To me, getting it available for those who love it in the first place is the biggest thing. The doors are being opened, the content creators will flood the floor with adventures, guides and whatnot.
 


I know Greyhawk has it's fans, but I always found it to be pretty similar thematically with Forgotten Realms--at least compared to say Ravenloft, Dark Sun, or Eberron, which all have a distinctly different flavor. I think this makes sense as a way to put the setting out there to honor the original setting for the anniversary and (somewhat) satisfy the fans who've missed it without putting out a competing product line to the Realms.
 

Will be unlocked in DMGuild? We shouldn't need more.

And a sobresaturation of FR shouldn't be good for the brand. You shouldn't put all the eggs in only one basket.
 



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