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<blockquote data-quote="SirAntoine" data-source="post: 7657003" data-attributes="member: 6731904"><p>There were some extra setting books, such as Iuz the Evil and The Marklands, which I was never able to pick up because their prices out-of-print were so high. They have done very little, generally speaking, to develop the setting, and the Greyhawk Wars to From the Ashes storyline is more than a little ridiculous. There are people who bought From the Ashes, and built entire campaigns out of it, but who never realized that it's so different from the original. It isn't that it's bad, just that the story for how the world got to that point is absurd. They reshaped the world very quickly, and totally changed its flavor. The cover of the boxed set tells it all: an undead knight riding a horse in front of a burning castle, with the color of flames everywhere. The Great Kingdom became an absolutely morbid place, more suited to a domain of Ravenloft, and Iuz emerged from captivity to conquer this huge empire, and the Scarlet Brotherhood somehow managed to conquer several powerful nations that had resisted all manner of infiltration and wars in the past, from within, by assassinations at the highest levels of government.</p><p></p><p>The setting is ripe for a new vision, perhaps best revisiting the World of Greyhawk boxed set just like the Forgotten Realms, for all their support, might be better off with a revisiting of the old grey box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SirAntoine, post: 7657003, member: 6731904"] There were some extra setting books, such as Iuz the Evil and The Marklands, which I was never able to pick up because their prices out-of-print were so high. They have done very little, generally speaking, to develop the setting, and the Greyhawk Wars to From the Ashes storyline is more than a little ridiculous. There are people who bought From the Ashes, and built entire campaigns out of it, but who never realized that it's so different from the original. It isn't that it's bad, just that the story for how the world got to that point is absurd. They reshaped the world very quickly, and totally changed its flavor. The cover of the boxed set tells it all: an undead knight riding a horse in front of a burning castle, with the color of flames everywhere. The Great Kingdom became an absolutely morbid place, more suited to a domain of Ravenloft, and Iuz emerged from captivity to conquer this huge empire, and the Scarlet Brotherhood somehow managed to conquer several powerful nations that had resisted all manner of infiltration and wars in the past, from within, by assassinations at the highest levels of government. The setting is ripe for a new vision, perhaps best revisiting the World of Greyhawk boxed set just like the Forgotten Realms, for all their support, might be better off with a revisiting of the old grey box. [/QUOTE]
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