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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6601276" data-attributes="member: 42582">There are three GH products between the first boxed set: City of Greyhawk boxed set; From the Ashes; and The Adventure Begins. The second and third are both on D&D Classics, but last time I looked the CoG wasn't there.CoG takes the timeline to 580-something, FtA to around 585/6 (?) and then TAB to 591, which is the same as LGThere is not much history/setting-wise in FtA or TAB that you won't find summarised in LG. The CoG actually is something of a variant history, because it mentions stuff (like an invasion of the Shield Lands) that got forgotten in FtA, but is then ret-conned back in in TAB (I think I've got those details right).The FTA world maps are a bit different from the originals to reflect the changed borders, but nothing very dramatic. There is also a smaller, City-of-GH-centred map.What FtA has that adds to the LG book is a whole lot of information (geography, NPCs, etc) for a City of GH-based campaign (to go with the aforementioned map), though some of it presupposes information in the CoG boxed set. It also has 2nd ed AD&D-style treatments of the GH gods and some monsters (eg Animus) if that is important to you. There are also a half-dozen odd mini-adventures (a couple in one of the books, the others on two-sided cards) and some setting plot hooks (a bit like the ones in the first boxed set's smaller book, or in the Greyhawk Adventures hardback).I know you wanted info and not advice, but my advice would be: if you don't have the CoG boxed set, and it is avai;able somewhere/how (I have it from when it came out, and so have never looked) I'd recommend that over FtA. But FtA as a download from D&D classics isn't very expensive and certainly won't do you any harm! On balance I think it's better than TAB, although the latter does have a lot of historical/political detail that I'm not sure is all reproduced in the LG.</blockquote>

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