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[BruceVC]

17 minutes ago, kanisatha said:

I would guess that Greyhawk will be one of the two more settings to be brought back next year. D&D is now such a huge cash-cow for WotC and Hasbro and, since setting books and guides and gaming modules are all mainly being released in digital form and not physical form, they can go nuts pushing out a lot of new stuff. The demand is certainly there.

I hope its Greyhawk....I really do 

[Chilloutman]

whats so interesting about Greyhawk? always felt similar to forgotten realms to me

[Oner]

So Nemesis: Lockdown is an Alien inspired board game and it's getting a video game adaptation.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1915550/Nemesis_Lockdown/
There's also a FPS version but I'd say that's a bit more niche?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343620/Nemesis_Distress/
 

[Keyrock]

Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance are all fairly similar. Dragonlance's one gimmick to differentiate itself is playable Draconians... Also, they renamed Halflings to Kender for some reason. I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk. I mean, the map is different, but other than that...

Edit: I guess Forgotten Realms has the Underdark as a gimmick to differentiate itself. 

Edited May 31, 2022 by Keyrock

[Oner]

Greyhawk was the original default setting of DnD so that might explain why it feels interchangeable with Forgotten Realms.

[Bartimaeus]

O.K., seeing it actually in action, I now finally understand why some people like CRT filters on old games (or new games meant to look like old games).

Edited May 31, 2022 by Bartimaeus

[kanisatha]

18 hours ago, Keyrock said:

Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Dragonlance are all fairly similar. Dragonlance's one gimmick to differentiate itself is playable Draconians... Also, they renamed Halflings to Kender for some reason. I honestly couldn't tell you the difference between Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk. I mean, the map is different, but other than that...

Edit: I guess Forgotten Realms has the Underdark as a gimmick to differentiate itself. 

Also different pantheon of gods.

[Humanoid]

Hmm, the Heart of Russia expansion for Euro Truck Sim 2 has been shelved indefinitely. Now fans will be even more regretful that they spent so much time working on this rather than filling that giant Yugoslavia-shaped hole in the map instead.

[BruceVC]

23 hours ago, Chilloutman said:

whats so interesting about Greyhawk? always felt similar to forgotten realms to me

I consider the various D&D/AD&D worlds to be very different in many ways that include history, gods, races and geography

But why Im so fond of Greyhawk is because it was the first AD&D world I DM in and then I moved to FR which is my overall favorite and still is 

But I loved the fact that Greyhawk had the locations of modules like Against the Giants and Queen of the Spiders, these were epic modules. ( here is link to the Queen, needless to say Lolth is smoking hot )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_Spiders

And then Greyhawk had these unique countries and regions that represented high fantasy like  the Empire of Iuz which was a country where the dark god Iuz ruled on the earth

https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Iuz

 

 

[Keyrock]

Greyhawk was the setting I played the most during my P&P days simply because it was the default D&D setting at the time. Then somebody in our circle got the Al-Qadim rulebook and I was hooked because I LOVE anything to do with Arabian Nights, it's my second favorite setting behind only Wuxia. It's been a woefully underutilized setting ever since Prince of Persia went the way of the dinosaur.

[BruceVC]

1 hour ago, Humanoid said:

Hmm, the Heart of Russia expansion for Euro Truck Sim 2 has been shelved indefinitely. Now fans will be even more regretful that they spent so much time working on this rather than filling that giant Yugoslavia-shaped hole in the map instead.

I hear you, war can be such an inconvenience to gaming...I hope my fellow gamers are okay 

[BruceVC]

21 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

Greyhawk was the setting I played the most during my P&P days simply because it was the default D&D setting at the time. Then somebody in our circle got the Al-Qadim rulebook and I was hooked because I LOVE anything to do with Arabian Nights, it's my second favorite setting behind only Wuxia. It's been a woefully underutilized setting ever since Prince of Persia went the way of the dinosaur.

I never played in Al-Qadim, it gets mostly positive feedback from those that experienced it 

[Gfted1]

Diablo Immortal released early on Android and iOS - Polygon

[Malcador]

 

[Melusina]

surprise there

[Keyrock]

Given the 187563005470 games released in the past several years based on Warhammer 40K, I find the claim of "The first classic CRPG in the Warhammer 40K universe" hard to believe.

[Malcador]

2 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

Given the 187563005470 games released in the past several years based on Warhammer 40K, I find the claim of "The first classic CRPG in the Warhammer 40K universe" hard to believe.

Seems true to me from my memory of all the various 40k games.  Inquisitor I guess comes sort of close, but it's an ARPG.  Otherwise, most are strategy games.

[Lexx]

Agreed. Everything is crappy shooter game or crappy tactical game. Will see what this is going to be in the end -- looks to have some wasteland influence? At least combat seems to be XCom style, so who knows. For me certainly the most interesting WH40k game in years, just hoping it won't simply be an arrangement of combat encounters.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Lexx

[melkathi]

We haven't had a proper warhammer RPG. As Mal said, Inquisitor was a (dull from what I read) diablo clone.

I hope they make it less annoying than Pathfinder where every little critter drained your stats on hit.

[Oner]

Also Fatshark teased a Bel'akor addon for Vermintide 2 but it's not much.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Oner

[Malcador]

What we really need is a 40k management sim.

[melkathi]

There was a fan made adult battle brothers style Slaanesh cult simulator being worked on at some point. But it got abandoned because GW cracks down hard on Slaanesh themed games.

[Kvellen]

Despite my not really being that into the setting anymore, a 40k CRPG is always something that is rolling around in my head pretty often.

Specifically this section of the intro before the "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is Only War" bit, always seems to me really ripe with unexplored potential subject matter:

Quote

"To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times."

40k narratives don't tend to focus in on the nitty gritty details of day to day life for very long. Which I kind of get. The fantasy of 40k is being the arm of the Imperium, carelessly weeding out corruption to prevent the forces of Chaos bleeding into reality. As opposed to something as mundane as an inquisitor looking into mutations among the population, and finding the most likely cause to be slurry from the massive factory seeping into the water supply of its workers.

I have yet to get round to any of the Pathfinder games, but from reviews Owlcat seem like a good choice for making a CRPG based on an established licence.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Kvellen

[melkathi]

Necromunda truly wasted a lot of potential with the terrible game we were given.

[Bartimaeus]

I have a friend who within the past year got into 40K and spent several months trying to convince me to read some books from it. Just recently, they told me that they're done with 40K because they've tried over and over, but there seem to be only exactly one good author (Dan Abnett) who writes for it, and he only wrote like ten books out of the few thousand (literally) there are for that universe. Knowing that, I'm not sure if I should be more or less inclined to try those books now.