moxcamel
Explorer
Correct. Although neither Greenwood's nor TSR's intent at the time was to eventually publish the world. Greenwood used his campaign as back-story to monsters and other info he had published in Dragon, and if memory servers, somebody at TSR looking to publish a new campaign setting rang him up and asked if he'd actually formalized his Forgotten Realms.Didn't the Forgotten Realms start off as a series of articles reflecting Greenwood's campaign that eventually became popular enough to becoming a full official setting? Might be a good way to approach settings in general - let people write articles until something catches on, continue writing articles until demand builds, then go for the setting book when everyone's drooling for one. If that never happens, hey, no risk taken.