I have been working a biut on my camapign but I am also thinking of running Greyhawk as my default setting. My PCs do not really know the lore of GH very well when compared with FR for example and I have recently bought the 1983 GH boxed set and have not really used it. That boxed set has the Darlene maps of the world and I also have the 3.5 poster sized maps of the world. The Greyhawk Pantheon is also on page 295 of the PHB. The PHB anand boxed sets to give you an idea of the size of the maps.
The 1983 Maps
However Paizo also made 4 poster sized GH maps and put them in Dragon magazine. Said maps are based heavily on the Darlene maps and they have added the various sites of the classic AD&D 1st Ed Modules to them.
The last adventure path that was in Dungeon Magazine (The Savage Tide) also put the Isle of Dread in Greyhawk. My PCs are currently here the city of Sasserine.
Sasserine was located south of the Greyhawk maps to the lands south of the Scarlet Brotherhood. A closer up view of the map.
So I have these Greyhawk materials and I am very tempted to use them. It saves me a lot of time designing a world and I think somw of this stuff looks great. I missed most of the 2nd ed Greyhawk stuff so I will just use the 83 boxed set. I can also get away with excluding certain things I do not like as they do not exist on GH and they did not blow up Greyhawk to the extent they did with the Spellplague so I can avoid that neo retcon of the sundering as well.
So to Greyhawk or not to Greyhawk is the question. I have run games set on Greyhawk before and the PC know Hommlet for example but I never really played up the Greyhawk angle before. Tenser, Melf and Mordenkainen will all exist, and I can drop in Sasserine, Scuttlecove and Threshold easily enough. The appeal of going back to where it really started stong atm.
Leaning heavily towards a naval type game where the PCs sail to various iconic GH places and maybe do an adventure set there. The wealth form dungeon crawling can turn them into merchant princes in Sasserine and they have access to exotic goods such as coffee.
I am foaming at the mouth for that city map, even though I LOVE making maps, it does take some pressure off when the party throws you a curveball.
Istbor wrote:
You have everything you need to run a Greyhawk campaign it look like! #GoForIt
Have fun and let us know how it goes!
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Ath-kethin wrote:
I had the 1983 boxed set about 15 years ago when I was still just a kid. I loved it, and wish I still had it. Really hoping they do some old-school boxed set campaign settings for 5e. If I had all that stuff, i would definitely be running a campaign in Greyhawk.
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Lol not warforged though and constructs do not bother me or even robots as long as they are rare, self contained and unavailable as PCs thats fine.
That is a gorgeous set and it would be such a waste not to run with it! ;)
I am sure your home brewed rules will be fine.
Look Zard: You like Greyhawk and want to run it old school? Do it. Who cares what others who aren't players at your table think? If you and your players are happy -rock it.
Brightmantle wrote:
Warforged were a race invented specifically for Eberron. Are you trying to troll Shasarak?
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Rastapopoulos wrote:
I've used these restrictions/changes to races in Greyhawk:
- Dragonborn: not allowed as a PC race (you could work them in as travellers from the Empire of Llyn(sp?).)
- Warforged: could be allowed as either a survivor from the Barrier Peaks crash, or a reawakened automaton from the City of the Gods. (I never had a player try this one out, so I never had to flesh things out further...)
- Tiefling: Allowed, with some fluff changes -- no horns or tail. Both the lands around Iuz and the former Great Kingdom were rife with demons and devils, so it makes sense to me that tieflings would be there too. Given the recent wars, most people would be immediately terrified by obviously demonic beings, thus the removal of the horns and tail.
DanBackslide wrote:
Go for it. You've got a wealth of older and newer material to draw from and you can modify it as necessary to make it your own. Using a pre-existing campaign world doesn't mean you're locked into somebody else's vision. Sasserine is a fun location and the first half of the Savage Tide AP is solid stuff.
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Atheosis wrote:
Every world with golems has had Warforged. Because Warforged are just sentient golems
But eh, Greyhawk doesn't do it for me.
http://ghmaps.net/greyhawk-maps/
Wonderful resource if you are happy to run a canon game post Greyhawk-Wars.
Me... I am thinking of running a Greyhawk game that is set a century later (so Wars etc. are all historical) with only an old Mordenkainen left alive of the 8 and the re-constitution of The Great Kingdom with the now fully reconstituted Ivid the Undying as it's new Lich King - with Vecna as the state religion, so Iuz isn't the only game in town...
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Timmee wrote:
Also, to stay true to the original setting, abide by 1st Ed race/class/alignment restrictions.
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I own several copies of Greyhawk including the 1983 version that you own Zard. I love those big Darlene maps.
I don't have the maps with the adventure locations from dragon magazine though. I wonder if such a map would be available online?
I say go for it! Especially if your players don't know much about it. Nice idea on adding the other region too.
Don't go bidding against me now folks 
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Those 1e maps from Darlene are incredible; I wish they still made maps that way.
Either way, sounds like the Greyhawk 5e game should be fun. Some of my players want me to convert my Birthright docs, so that may be coming down the pike for me when this current campaign is over.
Emerikol. wrote:
As a fan of Greyhawk, I say....Do it! 
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