In practice UA still gets used by me the most, for the few useful bits it has.
True. I mean, we must always remember Appendix T. The moment when Brad was like, "Wait, wut? My Cleric can't use a Lucern Hammer?"
POLEARMS FOREVER!
In practice UA still gets used by me the most, for the few useful bits it has.
They would been great as ONE book. As they were two books and screamed cash grab, I had no interest in buying Manual of the Planes.Man, am I the only one who loved the 1e Dungeoneers Survival Guide? And the Wilderness SG as well?
It was, but the neat thing about it is that it was foreshadowed elements of 2e like priest spheres and spell schools having more impact on the type of wizard (in DLA it's the different robes, in 2e it was specialist schools).DLA was released in '87 and is a purely 1E product.
Hey now! The thief-acrobat was a fun class.UA contains mostly garbage. There are a few useful rules patches like the rules for spellbooks, and expanded rules in the magic items and some of the additional spells. But the classes and Comeliness and social classes and weapon specialization and the munchkined races and most of it are trash.
Is it even possible to run FR or GH "truly by the canon"? The amount of official material is massive and scattered through many editions... wouldn't it require a lot of effort to study not just what is in current edition books but also what is in previous editions books and sort between what has been superseded afterwards and what has not, and therefore still applies?
IMO the teal difference maker is Ed Greenwood: one can still reach out to on social media and get a response with fresh new lore he makes up on the spot, and he still runs the Forgotten Realms with his friends and family. After Gygax left TSR, he wasn't involved with Greyhawk.Interesting question.
I think that FR has a community that is more interested in determining canon, simply because it has a lot more source material.
I think the GH community is more ... well, let's say that the debates are more about when they are arbitrarily drawing the line at canon, and also about creating a lot of fan material to use to fill in things that they find interesting.
IMO the teal difference maker is Ed Greenwood: one can still reach out to on social media and get a response with fresh new lore he makes up on the spot, and he still runs the Forgotten Realms with his friends and family. After Gygax left TSR, he wasn't involved with Greyhawk.