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Episode 199 of Mastering Dungeons! Main topic: Greyhawk’s Peoples and Story! The 2024 DMG will include the setting of Greyhawk. Shawn and Teos examine how the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer describes species, culture, and history. And, hey, how detailed should a setting be? News: New WotC VP John Hight, Hiring D&D Architect, Free Shadowdark Solo, and more! Contents 00:00 Parental Warning 03:31 Edition Change at Cons? 22:52 John Hight New WotC President 30:17 D&D Hiring Product Architect 36:28 Early PH at Gen Con 38:30 Monopoly Go Version of Monopoly 41:38 Wulfgang Baur Interview 43:29 Shadowdark Solo for Free 44:30 Thousand Suns in Spanish 45:24 Nimble 5E on Backerkit 46:45 Greyhawk Gazetteer 47:37 Evaluating a Setting 49:24 The Chapters 51:25 Tropes and Other Issues 53:23 Ch2 Human Cultures 57:07 Is this Important? 01:02:51 Nonhumans in Greyhawk 01:06:39 Greyhawk's Level of Conflict 01:11:43 Ch3 Greyhawk's History 01:17:09 Greyhawk Wars 01:21:19 Peace Signing 01:25:26 In Praise of Legwork 01:30:48 Player Assumptions 01:40:47 Shout-Outs Thank you for listening! Get the full show notes with links on Patreon. Show Search Engine: https://mdsearch.alphastream.org/ Our intro and outro music is Metropolis Fanfare, provided royalty-free by Tabletop Audio (https://tabletopaudio.com) under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). MP3 file metadata populated with Online MP3 Podcast Chapter Editor, built by Dominik Peters. https://mp3chapters.github.io/ and customized for Mastering Dungeons by Vladimir Prenner from Croatia.