Now that 4E has been announced, when will the GameMastery modules and Pathfinder convert to 4E?
Also, will Paizo look into a Greyhawk license for either modules or setting material?
Seems like a good time.
Erik Mona has essentially said "We'll wait and see how things turn out." Perhaps someone at Paizo will be able to tell us more after the announcement.
Also, will Paizo look into a Greyhawk license for either modules or setting material?
Now that would be something! But consider that Living Greyhawk is still going strong, and as long as this is the case, I doubt there will be a Greyhawk licence to paizo (or anyone else). With all the Greyhawk aficionados working at paizo (and frequenting these boards), paizo would be THE place for Greyhawk.
Stefan
I would wet myself if Paizo got Greyhawk. If I could help in any way w/ this...financially...Paizo knows how to get in touch w/ me. That's all I'll say on the boards; but hopefully someone keeps this post in mind down the road...
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if Paizo got Greyhawk...
I would love this! If you look at Wizards site, there is no link for Greyhawk under RPGA or under settings.
I also think i saw no core world in the new edition, so Greyhawk may be MIA as of now? Putting Greyhawk in Paizo's hands would be as good as giving Dragonlance back to Weiss & Hickmann.
Also, will Paizo look into a Greyhawk license for either modules or setting material?Now that would be something! But consider that Living Greyhawk is still going strong, and as long as this is the case, I doubt there will be a Greyhawk licence to paizo (or anyone else). With all the Greyhawk aficionados working at paizo (and frequenting these boards), paizo would be THE place for Greyhawk.
Stefan
I don't have a link handy, but apparently Living Greyhawk is ending in 2008, and being replaced with a Living Forgotten Realms campaign. There's a thread floating around on ENWorld that could probably provide more information. Cheers.
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I don't have a link handy, but apparently Living Greyhawk is ending in 2008, and being replaced with a Living Forgotten Realms campaign. There's a thread floating around on ENWorld that could probably provide more information. Cheers.
Here is the post from Chris Tulach (Organized Play guy at WotC) regarding the changes to the Living Campaigns next year. I've trimmed some of the fat (noted by the ...). The original post is at http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=908403
"Campaigns Concluding
Living Greyhawk has been the face of organized play for the 3rd Edition D&D game. Tremendously successful, thousands participate worldwide in the biggest shared-world D&D game anywhere. LG has been around since the beginning of 3rd Edition, and it will last to the end of the 3rd Edition product line. Starting with a two-round special at D&D Experience 2008 (February 28 – March 2), the campaign will begin its final story arc – a series of core adventures that will build into the climactic two-round finale at Origins 2008. We’re pulling out all the stops in these final adventures – no major NPC is off-limits, and you’re really going to be a part of the most world-affecting story arc we’ve ever done. We’re getting some of the best authors to ever write for Living Greyhawk to help with these adventures – what the Circle has planned is nothing short of amazing. While the campaign concludes at Origins next year, it is our sincerest desire to provide you an epic conclusion to the campaign we all love so much.
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Campaigns Beginning
At D&D Experience 2008, you’ll be able to get your first full-on play of D&D 4th Edition in its final form. This will come in the form of preview adventures for the next Living campaign – Living Forgotten Realms! The most popular campaign setting for D&D finally gets its turn as a regionalized Living campaign. If you like the system for Living Greyhawk, you’ll love what we have in store with Living Forgotten Realms: more play opportunities for the average gamer, fully supported online and offline play, and a greater shared-world experience than we’ve ever done before with a Living campaign. Living Forgotten Realms will be the first truly global Living campaign.
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Rob Little
WotC is not interested in licensing out their settings.
I've asked and asked and asked again, and that's the answer, at least for now.
--Erik
Too bad. I guess that WotC want to promote their main Settings (FR and Eberron), and don´t want to have other companies promoting settings that might get an audience that might draw some attention away from their main settings. So, I´ll assume that in foreseeable future, there will no new GH stuff be forthcoming *sigh*.
Stefan
I don't play RPGA anyway, so this doesn't really affect me. I would be more likely to get into 4th edition if they put out a Greyhawk book for it, though.
I have Greyhawk, Eberron, and soon I will have the Pathfinder world for 3rd edition.
Eberron is cool, but not cool enough by itself to start another edition with it. And just because they don't put out Greyhawk doesn't mean that I will use Forgotten Realms instead.
Plus, I have all these 3rd edition adventures I haven't run yet.
WotC is not interested in licensing out their settings. I've asked and asked and asked again, and that's the answer, at least for now.--Erik
Yes, thanks for asking, again. Someday, your persistence will pay off.
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I don't play RPGA anyway, so this doesn't really affect me. I would be more likely to get into 4th edition if they put out a Greyhawk book for it, though.
How shortsighted!
1. They effectively drop GH out of the core books (-> they will include earth mythology like Thor), the only GH remainders are supposed to be spell names!
2. They do drop GH out of the RPGA (-> it was just the biggest living campaign, but who cares):
So what do you think does that mean for the future of GH?
Just keep on hoping...
Greetings,
Günther
So what do you think does that mean for the future of GH?
Greyhawk will do more time in the Wizards Limbus, like Al-Qadim or Spelljammer or (insert own preferred oop setting here).
(Yes I know that it is not economically feasible to have ten settings in print - thats part of what broke TSRs neck ten years ago.)Stefan
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I'd rather Paizo stick with their new setting anyway. I'm digging everything I've seen so far and wouldn't want them to just drop it and focus on Greyhawk (which is a bit convoluted now). Golarion is the setting WE are building guys, all of us together. I'm looking forward to it being the Forgotten Realms of 2016
Golarion is the setting WE are building guys, all of us together. I'm looking forward to it being the Forgotten Realms of 2016
So who's going to write the Pathfinder novels? Forgotten Realms has always had, in addition to a large number of gaming supplements, 1) a large number of novels, 2) strong authors and 3) characters that didn't get "watered down" by multiple authors, all of which appealed not only to gamers, but fantasy fans as well. Greyhawk had two great novels published by TSR, a handful of so-so ones and then a ten year gap to the next hit-or-miss novel series, with Gygax's Gord the Rogue series being off the radar of most people. If Pathfinder wants to find the success of Forgotten Realms, they need to appeal not only to the Paizo-phile gamer, but also the general heroic fiction fan walking through Borders or Walden Books looking for something different.