Nellisir said:
part of TSR's "From The Ashes" (FtA) Greyhawk line. In FtA, Rary had betrayed the Circle of Eight and slain...Tenser and Otto, I believe, and their clones. Tenser later recovered; Otto did not.
None of which is THAT terrible, but in general FTA is a rotten as a week old fish in August. And that's about the kindest thing you'll ever hear me say about it.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Rant mode, activated . . .
Basically, Gary and crew wrote a great setting based on their personal campaign in Lake Geneva, WI . . . suits kicked out Gary and took over TSR, and produced said setting, which was based on poor-mans Risk-type game set on the Greyhawk map called "Greyhawk Wars". "Wars" took pretty much the names of countries and alignments, but not a decent read through of the original WOG material . . .
For some reason, a play through of the "Wars" game was used as the basis for the FTA setting, which is all about a war between good and evil, and evil forces romping around smiting countries in such a way that some pretty cool parts of the map are officially "gone" and replaced by vague no-mans-lands which are useless for adventuring (nothing to save, and nobody can really go there).
It was k-rad kewl to mess up Gary's setting . . . the best illustration of this is the cover illustrations of the respective editions.
WOG: Knights riding out from a castle. Implying PC's on a noble quest, related to a medieval land of some type.
FTA: Undead riding skeleton horses, riding away from a burning castle. Kewl! PC's no longer matter. Certainly, the posssibility of the PCs having won the big Against the Giants supermodule was never ever considered -- the setting just says the PC's must have failed, because the giants conquered everything they wanted.
Rant mode, deactivated . . .
The new management is better, but unfortuntely, they did not burn the FTAness from Greyhawk. The stink lingers in parts of the setting still.
