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When I used GH in my RM game, in the 1990s, I used the Tiger and Wolf Nomads as literal Catfolk and Wolfolk (both found in RM's Creatures and Treasures book). It didn't break anything. None of my players revolted. It didn't require changing anything important about how those peoples fitted into...

The vision of GH is S&S + high fantasy combo that is good for playing D&D in. I think it will suit contemporary D&D as well as it did AD&D. So if you did it, what makes you so confident that WotC can't?

Sorry, it's not elitist to point out that GH is not great literature. It's a hodgepodge setting for FRPGing. And nothing is being "manipulated". I have a shelf of GH material: Folio, Boxed Set, City of GH Boxed Set, FtA Boxed Set, The Adventure Begins, Living GH, plus various modules from...

Is Dragonbane a RQ derivative? That would make any ducks classic!

Excellent! Raxivort will not be bereft of followers in the new GH. I've spent very little time on Canonfire, but what you describe is how I've always approached it, ever since I got the folio in 1985 (I think it was). It never occurred to me that I wasn't supposed to do the sort of setting...

Does 5e D&D not have Xvarts? Now that is a travesty - how does Raxivort fit in without Xvarts?

What's the danger? I mean, I had Orc PCs in a GH game in the first half of the 1990s. We worked it out. I'm sure contemporary RPGers are as imaginative as we were back then.

I think it's ridiculous. (1) Greyhawk is not great literature. It's a a grab-bag of fantasy ideas and D&D mechanical elements merged together on some adaptation of an old wargame club map. (2) A commercial publisher like WotC will publish stuff it thinks will sell. If you don't like the stuff...

In 1988, the GH Adventures hardback included a frog folk called the Grung - "highly territorial, toadlike humanoids that dwell in swamps and marshes" who are typically 3' tall and who "are among the creatures most deadly to travelers in the Vast Swamp" (see pp 27-8). How do these relate to...

Furyondy vs Iuz, or The Shield Lands vs The Horned Society, can be pretty high fantasy if you ask me. Likewise, the Battle of Emridy Meadows as part of play, rather than just backstory, would seem to have a JRRT-esque vibe. There are parts of GH that support S&S, but they're not the whole of...

Perforce.

I'm only commenting on MHRP/Cortex+ Heroic: use an action including Invisibility and/or Covert to establish an appropriate Asset, or in some context perhaps to eliminate a Scene Distinction. I think the "failure state for stealth" really depends on a very granular approach to action resolution.

I feel there is some ironic tension between these two quotes. All the worries about how to adjudicate the sneaking doctors - which factor in the 50' of distance, worry about opposed rolls and number of rolls, etc - seem to be based on a D&D-esque (or similar style of RPG) paradigm. If the...

Probably a "unilaterally" or similar adverb is implicit. In my experience it's not trivial to explain the difference, because even "unilateral" is probably not quite right - as per a recent thread looking at the advice to GMs in the 3E D&D DMG, it is possible to be not completely unilateral yet...

I'm not confused. I first read Appendix I of the AD&D PHB 40 around 40 years ago. As @Cadence has pointed out, it expressly states that psionics are an option, to be included if the Dungeon Master so decides. In this respect it is no different from the Bard. I don't really understand what your...

The centre of the GH map has the following: *Two cities (Dyvers, Greyhawk) plus various towns for Conan-esque or Lankhmar-esque stuff (Hardby, Stoink, etc); *An ancient desert with mysterious nomads (the Bright Desert); *An Elven queendom (Celene) that blends into Elven forests that are also...

Eldritch Wizardry is broadly similar to the AD&D PHB Appendix I. But not identical in every detail. One thing is that Eldritch Wizardry imposes an additional XP requirement on psionic PCs. (At least, that's my recollection.)

It's presented as an option, in an Appendix of the PHB.

I say what I'm about to say quite seriously - I would be very interested in a thread about one or both of those games, just to learn exactly what sort of RPGing people got out of them. I've read Bushido but never tried to play it. I'm not 100% sure what playing it would look like. And the only...

Immersion describes a mental, cognitive and emotional state. I mean, what else would it be a metaphor for? It's about being (metaphorically) immersed in the fiction.