Greyhawk and Cross-System Utility

[Michael Hopcroft]

The new Greyhawk release interests me, but how useful is it for people playing other rulessets? I imagine the map and the like works with everything, but are there other things that would be portable to other games or other versions of D&D?

I was thinking of using it as a starting point, making changes as needed or wanted, which i imagine is what people did with the original World of Greyhawk back in the 1980s in the first place.

[Moon Wizard]

If you use the Universal Module extension available on the Forge, you can load modules in any campaign.

As noted in the caveats for using the extension, those record types that are not the same between systems will most likely throw errors or be incorrect, especially any character options and NPCs/Items.

For the Book/Image information, that should work fine as long as the book developer followed the standard formats that we use.

Regards,
JPG

[scoot138]

As Moon Wizard stated, you can use the Universal Module extension. The reference manual is developed according to the standards. You should also be able to use the weather generating system as it was developed using the story template system and I think that is the same across all rulesets, this would apply to the Tables for weather and general stuff like birthplaces as well.
The following are 2E ruleset specific: Classes, NPC's, Spells and Encounters.
There are over 200 random encounters, And another 250 or so tables that are for encounters. You could make copies of those tables/encounters and change the monsters to another systems equivalent, but I would advice doing them on an as needed basis.
Hope this helps, and happy Greyhawking!

The Scoot