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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WSmith" data-source="post: 1626281" data-attributes="member: 106">Thanks, dead. I acutally use a homebrew setting. I took the Blackmoor map from Dave Arneson's website and created my own world with it. There is a lot of Greyhawk in original AD&D (Tenser's floating disks, Bigby spells) but it does not neccessarily have to be set there. Many of the other OAD&D players I know use Greyhawk cause it does work nicely with the rules, plus many of the classic modules (Slavers, Giants, Drow, Saltmarsh, etc.) are set there. Merric is very close on his explanation of Mystara/Known Worlds, with one thing though:On page X61 of the Cook edit Expert rulebook, there is a rough map of the Grand Duchy of Karameikos, which later became the Known Worlds, and subsequently, Mystara. It predates the Mentzer edtion by a couple of years. With Basic / Expert D&D, considering the rules as compared to AD&D, there is little to no mention (at least that I have tried to find) of the Known Worlds being the default setting. Later Products in the Basic D&D line (The Rules Cyclopedia I know for sure, and Wrath of the Immortals IIRC) have Mystara / Known Worlds info in it. I don't have the Immortals boxed set, but there is a section in the RC on the setting. Besides that the rules in that book are pretty indepenant and don't cite the setting as far as I can remember.</blockquote>