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<blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 485485" data-attributes="member: 7261">What he said.Really. though, it's semantics.&nbsp; &quot;Mystara&quot; is the name of the planet the setting is on.&nbsp; &quot;The Known World&quot; is the region of Brun that stretches from Sind east to Thyatis and north up to northern Glantri and southern Heldann.&nbsp; It includes a number of nations (Sind, Atruaghin, Darokin, Thyatis, Karameikos, Five Shires, Glantri, Ylaruam, Rockhome, Alfheim/Aengmor, Ostland, Vestland, Soderfjord, Ethengar, the Broken Lands, and the Heldannic Territories that were once the Heldannic Freeholds).IIRC, I'm pretty sure X1: Isle of Dread was the first place the Known World as a whole was mentioned.&nbsp; The original orange cover Palace of the Silver Princess made reference to Glantri as the setting for the adventure, and Threshold (in Karameikos) was always considered an idea starting town for campaigns.&nbsp; Bargle (from the red box) became an NPC in the setting on a larger scope.&nbsp; Many (but not all) of the OD&amp;D adventures reference specific regions of the Known World (or Savage Coast which is just west of the KW) and a lot of that was drawn on for the GAZ series.&nbsp; The two AD&amp;D box sets were kind of like pathetic attempts to update the GAZ books into AD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Estlor, post: 485485, member: 7261"] What he said. Really. though, it's semantics. "Mystara" is the name of the planet the setting is on. "The Known World" is the region of Brun that stretches from Sind east to Thyatis and north up to northern Glantri and southern Heldann. It includes a number of nations (Sind, Atruaghin, Darokin, Thyatis, Karameikos, Five Shires, Glantri, Ylaruam, Rockhome, Alfheim/Aengmor, Ostland, Vestland, Soderfjord, Ethengar, the Broken Lands, and the Heldannic Territories that were once the Heldannic Freeholds). IIRC, I'm pretty sure X1: Isle of Dread was the first place the Known World as a whole was mentioned. The original orange cover Palace of the Silver Princess made reference to Glantri as the setting for the adventure, and Threshold (in Karameikos) was always considered an idea starting town for campaigns. Bargle (from the red box) became an NPC in the setting on a larger scope. Many (but not all) of the OD&D adventures reference specific regions of the Known World (or Savage Coast which is just west of the KW) and a lot of that was drawn on for the GAZ series. The two AD&D box sets were kind of like pathetic attempts to update the GAZ books into AD&D. [/QUOTE]

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