Editing From The Ashes (section)

==Legacy==
Greyhawk splatbooks and modules continued to be released for the post-Sargent Greyhawk. These developed the horrors left in its wake. Sargent did many of these himself: ''[[City of Skulls]]'', for instance. Eventually TSR itself died and Sargent had to release his Great Kingdom splatbook across the #200s issues of ''Dragon''. And then Sargent himself went poof.

Under the New Management of [[Wizards of the Coast]], the oldest guard and the newcomers agreed on One Thing: they liked the ''old'' Greyhawk, not this [[GRIMDARK]] para-Warhammer what Sargent had left them. So another Gazetteer came out tamping down some of this stuff. A common ground was reached: Sargent's lore could be mined by DMs crafting adventures into the heart of darkness, but as affecting the wider Flanaess, those times of woe belonged in the past.

We'd ''like'' to report that the whole episode became a cautionary tale in how to treat an established canon, elsewhere. It annoys people when you tear up bits people liked while introducing new bits no one requested in an effort to reinvent the setting entire. But then came [[4e]], and it not only reinvented the multiverse by switching from the [[Great Wheel]] to the [[World Axis]], it went on to strike the [[Forgotten Realms]] with the terribly received [[Spellplague]] storyline that similarly wrecked the setting, resulting in the intense fan-backlash of the early years of that game that only an exodus of the most-butthurt players to [[Pathfinder]], and the later introduction of [[Eberron| substantially]] [[Dark Sun| better-recieved]] settings, began to dim. Perhaps the historical analogy to TSR and Wizards isn't pioneer America or World War II; perhaps it's the fucking Bourbon family, forgetting nothing and learning nothing with each new fuck-up.

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