Welcome to Greyhawk 

My playlist for folks new to Greyhawk is here: ru-vid.com/group/PLHV7B21NcVNnn4EypyDikVItCiGlbGRK6 More videos will be added as the series goes on, so do check back often!

IMO the best part of Greyhawk is that it's a great smorgasbord campaign. You can ignore 90%+ of it, find a starting location with a real-world theme to it (Mongol-tribesmen, Viking raiders, middle-eastern Caliphate, ocean/pirate islands, Aztec jungle, Swedish mercenaries, Italian merchant guilds, collapsed empire, etc.), terrains (deep elven forest, dwarven mountain kingdoms, reptile swamp, desert, etc.) and there is a corresponding Greyhawk area you can set it in. Players and DMs can start small in one of these areas -- read only the background on a single country and a few geographical areas and races -- and you're good to go. This makes it easy to start as you can run a full campaign in 5-10 hexes (100 or so miles) without affection/knowing about the rest of the world. Likewise, it means even after 40 years of playing... you still have different types/styles of campaigns you can play in and they are still new.

I love the sense of history involved in Greyhawk. Plus you can actually meet the players from the original campaign still. It still has enough open, sandbox setup that a DM can make it his own.

I enjoy all of Greyhawk Grognard videos

Like yourself I started playing in the World of Greyhawk when it released back in 1980. We need to keep it alive. Thanks for all that you do.

I Love ALL Greyhawk Grognard videos!

That map is a masterpiece Grognard. Love the new video. I lost my Darlene map. Can’t get enough of this stuff. Once I freaking left two huge maps I had of towns I created. They were about the same size. Taped together sheets with 10 ft. squares.

Hands down the best campaign setting ever printed. I have many fond memories of leading hundreds of different players over those maps since the 1980s. I'm glad it's being kept alive, thanks for folks like you. Thanks!

Even when I'm running my own world, I use modules and cities as my players explore the map. Its my favorite setting.

Greyhawk is HOME. My current Castles & Crusades campaign is set in the same version I played in (AD&D back then), just 30-40 years later. My players will likely run into our old PCs-turned NPCs sometime. This is a great intro video!

I can't understate how helpful the geography section in this video is in helping me understand the Flanaess

5:13 Iuz is one of major protagonists? I think you meant antagonists? I mean, sure, there are moments Iuz fights evil (in Vecna Lives! and Die, Vecna Die!, for example), but he's very much a chaotic antagonist even while doing that.

LET’S KEEP GREYHAWK ALIVE!

I enjoy all of Greyhawk Grognard’s videos. They help me run a Greyhawk campaign with the ShadowDark ruleset 😀👍🏼

Great introduction to Greyhawk.

One thing I like about "Greyhawk" over other settings is that it doesn't feel quite as "settled," despite many of the nations being centuries old; as a result I feel like there's always something new to discover - kind of like post-Roman Europe as it fragmented into a number of kingdoms, while also taking note of the various ancient sites of precursor civilizations. (It also helps that my favorite character, Quintessa - originally created in the game _SoulCalibur III_ - fits so perfectly as the stereotypical pureblooded, noble-born Suloise sorceress, inspiring me to both read more about the setting _and_ to craft unique spells baring her name.)

I play Greyhawk for 35 years on and off, but I enjoyed the intro anyway. 😊

Excellent video as always. These introductions to the campaign setting videos are down right helpful for any game master wishing to start a Greyhawk campaign. Thank you.

Low magic settings are always more fun and less complicated.

great video, my favorite campaign setting! I love all videos from Greyhawk Grognard.

This was quite good, extremely eloquent, and very welcome. Though really, you had me at kitchen sink. Whether it be gaming or movies, kitchen sink stuff is most often my favorite. As to the pronunciation of "drow," I was always one for the version rhyming with "show." But I must say, in recent years, I've become a drow rhyming with "sow" guy.

Is the Greyhawk Folio a must if I'm buying the World of Greyhawk Box set (1st edition)?. Can a DM new to Greyhawk get by on the Greyhawk Adventures hardcover?

Great video! Thank you for sharing! I'll use it to introduce players to the setting

Thanks for the content!

I found a web page that listed this out but seem to have lost it. A great video idea would be to point out on the map where some of the "classic" modules took place -- Keep on the Borderlands, Against the Giants, the Slave Lords Series, the Saltmarsh series, etc.

I've been thinking of running an RC Greyhawk campaign for a while now. I know its more famous as a setting for AD&D, but could you do a video about the merits of running Classic D&D games in Greyhawk? The RC has beholders, assassins and monks and the (Wrath of the) Immortals box set demons and such… it seems like you'd have everything you'd need to get the right Greyhawk feel.

Excellent video!!!❤

Great video!

I wonder to what degree you designed your own rest of planet Oerth? or what you found of what's finished of what Gary designed?

Can you recommend which videos of yours to start if I’m looking to run greyhawk for the first time that will fill me in on the best timeframe? I’m running 3.5e core only. I’d like for a classic, gritty, emergent style campaign rather than grandiose stories like modern play. I know you don’t care for the living greyhawk gazetteer (though I didn’t see your video explaining in detail why?) so I’m curious if I would be better served to convert the original or gold box stuff?

Grey hawk was the best

I haven’t heard that name since Gary Gygax

It's drow as in brow, just ask Frank Mentzer ;-) GREAT VIDEO

I think the 2nd edition of Greyhawk is so underrated. Thank you for the video, great channel.

I want more

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It's a pity you cannot get a lot of Greyhawk stuff as a POD.