Anyone play Greyhawk?

Just wondering if anyone has played the greyhawk campaign setting much...i personally have never tried greyhawk but one day i may give it a go..ideas on greyhawk?

Isn't greyhawk supposed to be the generic campaign setting? I dunno where I heard that, which is usually what happens when I make something up, forget about it, and remember it as if somebody else had told me

Yah Greyhawk is. I never played it though

I've been thinking of fiddling with some Greyhawk, but have no clue when I'll have a chance to game again

They Used Greyhawk As The Base Campaign Since It Was Pretty Much Dead And The Good Ones ( Dragonlance And Ravenloft ) Were Too Specific.

The Forgotten Realms Would Have Been The Logical Choice, However.But WotC And Logic Do Not Match,LOL

Well, FR still makes money as a seperate campaign though. If everybody had the better setting as the default, they wouldn't want to go buy greyhawk books, as it's not really as good as FR IMO (and a lot of other people's). Now you have to buy the greyhawk player's handbook, greyhawk completes, greyhawk accessories, forgotten realms campaign setting, forgotten realms cities books, forgotten realms modules, etc. I see a new FR book every month, so they have to be selling pretty decent

Try looking for some of the second ed. fluff. The timelines and geography are pretty important for Greyhawk. Also, check with anyone you know that happens to be doing "Living Greyhawk" as I'm pretty sure that they'll some have a bit more current information.

Anymore, I would just take what I like a about a module/adventure and tweak it to fit whatever campaign world I happened to be running. While the established worlds are nice, they're no replacement for an original world.

As a fan of Greyhawk, I would have to say that it is not the "default" setting. Originally it was the only setting (Before FR and Eberron), but with the creation of 3rd and 3.5 Editions Greyhawk was no longer supported like it once was. One could say that it is because of lack of interest, but I believe part of it was Forgotten Realms has been very lucky with have exceptional Novels written about characters in the FR.

I have also found that the majority of "serious" players (mostly older) decided that when TSR was bought by Wizards, they decided to use more original material. So to say that Greyhawk is dead is false, that will more than likely happen though when 4th edition is released.

If you want some good Greyhawk material look in old copies of Dungeon or Dragon magazines, or search the internet for websites like Canonfire. You'll see that although the system isn't supported, it is still very much alive.

First, welcome to the site Aspect of Bubba. And thanks for an informative post!

Almost all of the 1st edition adventures are set in Greyhawk, but can be transplanted with very little effort...in fact, we're doing Temple of Elemental Evil in a Dragonlance setting...

Some of the 1e adventures from Greyhawk (ones that I know are GH anyway - there may be others):

9039 A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity
9040 A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade
9041 A3 Assault of the Aerie of the Slave Lords
9042 A4 In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords
9167 A1-4 Scourge of the Slave Lords

9032 C1 The Hidden Shrine of Tomoachan
9038 C2 Ghost Tower of Inverness
9110 C3 The Lost Island of Castanamir
9107 C4 To Find a King
9109 C5 The Bane of Llywelyn

9019 D1 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth
9020 D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa
9059 D1-2 Descent Into the Depths of the Earth
9021 D3 Vault of the Drow

9221 DQ1 The Shattered Statue

9016 G1 Steading of the Hill Giant Chief
9017 G2 The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
9018 G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King
9058 G1-2-3 Against the Giants
9179 GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders

9122 H1 Bloodstone Pass
9168 H2 The Mines of Bloodstone
9200 H3 The Bloodstone Wars

9046 I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City
9055 I2 Tomb of the Lizard King
9052 I3 Pharaoh
9053 I4 Oasis of the White Palm
9054 I5 Lost Tomb of Martek
9199 I3-5 Desert of Desolation
9187 I11 Needle
9201 I12 Egg of the Phoenix

9045 L1 The Secret of Bone Hill
9057 L2 The Assassin’s Knot
L3 Deep Dwarven Delve

9063 N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God

9035 Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits

9022 S1 Tomb of Horrors
9027 S2 White Plume Mountain
9033 S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks
9061 S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
9209 S1-4 Realms of Horror

9026 T1 The Village of Hommlet
9147 T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil

9062 U1 The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh
9064 U2 Danger at Dunwater
9076 U3 The Final Enemy

9101 UK2 The Sentinel
9111 UK3 The Gauntlet

...and from the original D&D adventures:

9260 B11 King’s Festival
9261 B12 Queen’s Harvest

9172 DA1 Adventures in Blackmoor
9175 DA2 Temple of the Frog
9191 DA3 City of the Gods
9205 DA4 The Duchy of Ten

9051 X2 Castle Amber (Château d’ Amberville)
9056 X3 Curse of Xanathon
9068 X4 Master of the Desert Nomads
9069 X5 Temple of Death
9081 X6 Quagmire!