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Was there information on this in the 1983 boxed set? I didn't think the sheild lands were occupied back then. It sounds interesting, and I'm wondering where to find stuff about it. Thanks.

There was also the article Risen from the Ashes which was an overview of types of campaigns you might want to run, themes, levels, places to locate them that would work for those themes, etc. It was in issue 291.

Thanks. For some reason I thought the answer would be more esoteric than that. Got to love the Internet.

Any recommendations are where to find the pre-Mallory Arthurian stories? Regarding what to take ideas from, I'm thinking the 1001 Tales, and Mythology. Pick any that interest you - Norse, Greek, Indian - all have themes and adventure hooks you can expand on.

Not necessarily odd. Perhaps the people concerned with not starting a proliferation of settings are now gone and replaced by people who only care about the dollars and cents, i.e. proliferation of revenue and profit.

It's not unfair if you give them a chance to understand the danger, and are willing to let good ideas and/or good die rolls result in PC victory. It's of course also fair for the overpowering force to strategize agains the PCs if they know of them beforehand, and stack the odds in their favor...

What dots were present to connect besides names and some sparse exposition? Maybe I didn't see it. I'm wondering what you'd use an an example for demonstration purposes.

I concur. Without buying adventures as separate products (because they had the ideas), there wasn't much interspersed throughout the text that would result in adventure ideas just springing to mind throughout reading the books. The setting didn't come to life for me. And it's true that there...

I'm a fan of gm customizeability, but I have to agree with Umbran that at some point you draw the line and say that what you have is more a set of names and a straw man than something that is an evocative and imaginary place in the minds eye.

It's tough for me to identify what is intentional vs just the way things were done back then (like level of detail, etc.). I will say that one thing I didn't like was the quality of the writing, as separate from any of the ideas contained therein. I would have rather had more info on the...

7th or 8th - have 4th level spells, but not 5th level spells yet.

Kudos to you. This seems like a great way to handle the prep and planning side of keeping a long term campaign going and fun as well.

I don't think they inately are. And even if they are, the length of your arcs needs to serve not just as theory, but fit into the reality of how much time you have to play, how long your group will stick together, and how quickly everyone wants to finish and move on to other campaigns, parts of...

My highest campaign stopped at level 12. Even at levels 9 though I started noticing the extra time that would have to go into preparing NPCs, and considering the different options PCs had to approach both combat and investigation elements of adventures. It would have been easier I think had I...

The title pretty much says it. Is this a multi-level dungeon crawl mini campaign? Flipping through it, the maps basically look all like dungeon rooms and corridors. It makes me wonder if there's anything more to it than that. I'm not likely to have a good time with 6 levels of the same/mostly...

I would just rename a published city, and liberally pull from any city products that inspire you (and the real world).

Thanks for sharing. I'll try them out. At first glance, I think I'll find the 2007 version more useful.

My first choice would be start at 4th unless you already have something that you specifically want to run because you're already excited about and/or if your players really prefer to start at first level and "work their way up". No point in looking for stuff just to fill in a few levels though...

Was it deliberately left vague, or was that simply driven by the typical supplement length at the time? These days we have 200+ page setting books like FR and Eberron, and similar lengths from other publishers. Back then, books were like 64 pages or 96 pages. I'm open to the idea that details...

If you want to run during the wars, find "The Complete History of the Greyhawk Wars" online. Cherry pick the events from the war that you want to build adventures around. Separate from FtA itself, I'd personally use, and so recommend The Marklands, Iuz the Evil, "Risen From the Ashes" Dragon...