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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 3069967" data-attributes="member: 17969">I was going to write a post explaining some of the differences between the various settings.  Fortunately, I refreshed first, because ZSutherland said what I was going to say, and in a better way than I would have said it.There are only a couple things I can add:First, the organization that creates Dracholiches is the Cult of the Dragon.Second, I know a little bit about Greyhawk:Castle Greyhawk is basically where D&D began.  It was the dungeon where Gary Gygax, the co-creator of D&D, DMed in.  The world around it, Oerth, is where the first published D&D adventures were set.Unlike the other fantasy worlds that you mentioned, which were laid out all at once and then elaborated upon, Greyhawk grew by bits and peices.  It's got a bit of a random feel, where the various elements don't quite fit together into a cohesive whole (which, given the needs of the GM isn't necessarily a bad thing).  It's very much an old-school place, with a sense of history that transcends the world itself.  The powerful and famous of the Forgotten Realms are the characters from the novels, while the famous people from Greyhawk are the very first D&D PCs and the villians they fought.  Also, the countries and cultures of greyhawk probably have the most direct analogues with countries and cultures from real-world history.Third, places like FR, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and (to a slightly lesser extent) Eberron are pretty much the same.  They each have their own distinct theme and flavor, but they're all designed to be classic high-fantasy worlds with broad appeal.Other D&D settings exist that are a lot more unusual.  There are settings are based on specific, non-european cultures--For example, Al-Qadim is modeled after the tales in the Arabian Nights, while Kara Tur is based on the history and legend of the far east.  There are settings based on different subgenres than high fantasy--Ravenloft is modeled after gothic horror like Dracula or Frankenstein, while Dark Sun is similar to planetary romance books such as John Carter of Mars.  And some settings explore the strange outer reaches of the classic high fantasy worlds--Though they're connected to the various other D&D settings, you'd be hard pressed to call Spelljammer or Planescape ordinary fantasy.</blockquote>

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