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Greyhawk is my favorite D&D setting and yeah joy is not the word for it! It was practical to the point of asking “did Ben Stein write this in the voice of his Ferris Bueller character?”

Greyhawk offers a lot. Beyond the 50th anniversary it is also a setting where immense depth can be explored and exploited in 24-32 pages. It’s easy to make your own as a DM. It’s darker with more comparison to The Witcher than to Tolkien without being overwhelming and it has those shades of...

I offer for your consideration that the book, The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer was a boring read that I slogged through. I enjoyed the Journal but the book was boring, offered nothing really and the little thin Gazetteer that they put out a few months before was a much better presentation. Had...

We did an all in so yes it was close to $200

They did. It's on their website as a free pdf. There is also the Essentials boxed set.

My own TL;DR is that the RPG industry does not generate enough money for one publisher, even the 1800 lbs gorilla that is WOTC and D&D, to justify the cost at all and the sales would be so miniscule in comparison to the new thing that it would read as a loss. They're doing what even CHaosium...

that's a snazzy cover

erm, from the Ashes, Living Greyhawk both made a lot of changes to the setting. The setting was originally static and a lot of us prefer it that way what happens can be focused on the PCs and not keeping up with what WOTC is going to do with the setting. My preferred era is From the Ashes, I...

I fear for my P3 paints.

I have been playing approximately 3 months longer than my wife has been alive, she is 34. I think I am good.

Greyhawk has alternate combat rules.

Ok Man. You have a nice day. Bye.

Rangers have a historical connotation. The military in the United States and the Texas rangers. It’s also beside my point.

Looking at page counts, the deities book is the only thing I don’t see getting reprinted but could be wrong.

Did I not say that already? I could swear I said that in my original post. Oh yes, I actually did. yep there it is, I said that. So my point the Paladin wasn’t based on historical precedent stands and has a strong bearing on the development of the class through 3.x. The developers at TSR for 2e...

Did I say ignore that? No. It’s a starting point but the OG Paladin is straight up Holger.

Thieves, the original rogue, was, much like the Paladin, based on a specific character, Grey Mouser. Right down to using magic user scrolls.

The problem is that D&D Paladins, like the original ranger, are based on one specific character from a specific book that was highly influential on Gygax and his approach to D&D including the Troll, Werewolf, how he handled elves and dwarves and it wasn't someone in Lord of the Rings. The...

It’s mostly the toy line anyway.