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I think it's funny because it's the spawning pool of the 3.5 grognard. They're so *CUTE* when they're young!

What if it was true? :heh:

The younger me though the same way too. Of course, even then I was always obsessed with food, so I could have glossed over all the peril and just went to looking for the inns that had food-porn and described hot female innkeepers. :p

I try to go off of what amount of description I can get or what I can glean from the setting as well. The viewpoint of the African-American gamers is interesting as well. Being white & Asian, I never really pictured many characters that would look like me, namely because I don't really see...

I get confused, man!

It is very interesting! I would definitely have points like Silverymoon, Waterdeep, hell even Phlan's neighbors sweating themselves wondering if they could be next! It would be interesting especially in the case of Waterdeep, who might find their backs against the wall. They need more men, but...

I know, but I'm looking back on what the 17 year-old POH was thinking. That doesn't match my viewpoint now. Nowadays the new villages I would find in the Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast, for example, may or may not be there from one year or the next. Orcs and hobgoblins would knock on the gates...

Right, but the impression that I was getting (over ten years ago, mind you) was that the vast areas of wilderness were becoming very not-vast very quickly.

I always loved the idea of the Mordheim game that was out with factions battling it out in a ruined city, and on the FR note, the Ruins of Phlan adventures as well. Warhammer's setting sounds very, very, very cool to me now!

Really? The impression I got from those books were here's the good places to eat and which dungeons were already looted out, and a million more little towns that weren't on the map before.

To me it implied that there was a lot of trade rather than scrambling to get your settlements in order before the orcs/goblins/Chakka Khan came back to kill people and take their stuff. There was also an implication the roads were quite reasonably passable and well-maintained implying a lot of...

And it's 2E where I really picked up on (and quit) the Realms as well. The Grey Box was in the back of my mind but I never ran it as the Vast Wilderness idea because I was really caught up in the products that were released at the time anyways. Well, that and because the City of Splendors boxed...

Ooo! I want that one! Especially "Expedition to the Return to the Soulbane Mazefane!"

Yup, that's what the initial impression of the Realms that I was given (and was in the early marketing materials and back of the Grey Box as well: "Adventure on the edge of a vast wilderness!"). From 2E on, it felt like it was nothing but caravans and goodly kings doing good with the PCs' help.

That's been ingrained in me since Keep on the.........y'know...the, uh...Borderlands. :p With campaigns in more settled regions, the tone of adventure style changes considerably. All are good with me.

Flippant and/or non-sequitor commentary by me.

I also see it as the normal progress of civilization in any country/period, typically land reclamation/clearing projects as would be seen in France, or Japan from the Middle Ages onward. Even closer to this age, regions in "civilized" countries were still unknown/under-explored. Case in point...

I've only read through it, but basically, the Master of the Desert Nomads brings another war to the D&D Known World. This time, as the PCs are higher in level and have some more clout as heroes, they go about the Known World trying to build an alliance to keep the Desert Nomads from overrunning...

I always wanted to play a BECMI campaign where my cleric character would start building a string of strongholds for his order to protect a pilgrimage route (built-in character background for adventuring: to find and restore a lost holy site).

You mean unlike the other green men that they kill for loot and XP?