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<blockquote data-quote="Stuart Kerrigan" data-source="post: 9507245" data-attributes="member: 6992554">To a lot of gamers the 32 page Folio is indelibly ingrained in their mind as to what Greyhawk is and it seems it was the holy grail to the DMG 2024 writers. Seminal work, good stuff but bear in mind it was the first ever campaign setting publication for Greyhawk - there's a lot missed out that one traditionally puts in RPG Gazetteers these days. It is a fairly bland read IMHO - you can tell Gary is a wargamer because he'll list a nation's armed forces in great detail but other specifics are not there...For instance, the famously intolerant Theocracy of the Pale are mentioned as being intolerant but Gary neglected to mention which God they worship. In fact I think this is true for most of the &quot;Theocratic&quot; nations in the Folio and first boxed set.&nbsp; A much later supplement mentions it is Pholtus - WG8 Fate of Istus, which is quite late in that module series (which started at WG4 because numbering). Some of the other theocratic nations ended up worshipping deities that Gary didn't intend, and there are a lot of purists who think that the world should be run the way (they think) Great Gygax intended.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stuart Kerrigan, post: 9507245, member: 6992554"] To a lot of gamers the 32 page Folio is indelibly ingrained in their mind as to what Greyhawk is and it seems it was the holy grail to the DMG 2024 writers. Seminal work, good stuff but bear in mind it was the first ever campaign setting publication for Greyhawk - there's a lot missed out that one traditionally puts in RPG Gazetteers these days. It is a fairly bland read IMHO - you can tell Gary is a wargamer because he'll list a nation's armed forces in great detail but other specifics are not there... For instance, the famously intolerant Theocracy of the Pale are mentioned as being intolerant but Gary neglected to mention which God they worship. In fact I think this is true for most of the "Theocratic" nations in the Folio and first boxed set. A much later supplement mentions it is Pholtus - WG8 Fate of Istus, which is quite late in that module series (which started at WG4 because numbering). Some of the other theocratic nations ended up worshipping deities that Gary didn't intend, and there are a lot of purists who think that the world should be run the way (they think) Great Gygax intended. [/QUOTE]

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