What is 4Es default campaign setting?
Forgotten Realms.
Well, not actually. The unnamed world of the "Points of Light" philosophy is the "default" setting, but FR is the setting for their organized play campaign, and for the most part the setting has been hammered and reshaped so that it is pretty much 100% suited for the standard 4E conventions, however.
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I am relatively new to Paizo products but I just read on the RPGA forum that they are discontinuing support of the Living Greyhawk campaign. Is there any chance that Pathfinder might pick up Greyhawk as a campaign setting in any form?
While Paizo has next to no chance of ever getting the rights to do anything with Greyhawk, including an OP campaign, they have picked up the mantle of 3.x organized play with the Pathfinder Society, which is a similar, but different, organized play system. If you have the chance to check it out, I highly recommend it. Expect major changes in how it works come August 13, though, when Season 1 begins at the launch of the Pathfinder RPG core rules at GenCon.
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If things some how Hazbro does what they traditionally haven't done before when 4E tanks, someone might get the rights to Greyhawk and they could create a version of the campaign world for the Pathfinder RPG. If Paizo had the cash at the time of some kind of amazing Intellectual Property Auction in the future and wanted it, I'm sure they would probably buy it.
I doubt very much that it would ever happen of course. Hazbro doesn't sell things that become unpopular, they shelf them. Mega-corps suck like that. So not impossible, just incredibly improbable.
Now do I think that there will be fan sites with conversions that include Greyhawk in part or entirety? Absolutely. Just doing a search for Greyhawk on Google brings up a lot of different fan sites with all kinds of information about the world.
Plus old adventures still exist on places like ebay or amazon and you could bring over a lot of them to update to newer rules with some work.
(So you know, Living Greyhawk stopped being supported about half-way through 2008, more then a year ago I believe.)
Fortunately, a lot of useful Greyhawk material was published during the RPGA era, much of which is still floating around for home campaigns.
I'm GLAD WotC didn't update Greyhawk to 4E.
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I'm GLAD WotC didn't update Greyhawk to 4E.
It's likely to happen at some point: the Wizards staff is cycling through their game worlds, spending a year or so on each.
When they do translate the Flanaess into 4th Edition concepts, I'd hope that they follow the Eberron model, doing as little damage to the setting as possible.
I'm GLAD WotC didn't update Greyhawk to 4E.It's likely to happen at some point: the Wizards staff is cycling through their game worlds, spending a year or so on each.
When they do translate the Flanaess into 4th Edition concepts, I'd hope that they follow the Eberron model, doing as little damage to the setting as possible.
I haven't played in Greyhawk in over 20 years, but the thought of WotC doing what they did to FR to Greyhawk also is tragic.
Everything that WotC has done to DND is tragic since 4E came out. :(