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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9370249" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I went back and saw this. I agree completely.You have to remember that at the time, Ed Greenwood was known (and respected) for his Dragon Magazine articles. Okay, maybe they could be a little hokey (the Elminster bit was sometimes ... a little too much) but overall? Solid stuff.So when the Grey Box came out, it was truly exciting! At the time, there was only GH and Dragonlance.* Okay, there was the Known World (Mystara) but ... ya basic.GH was what everyone already knew, and Dragonlance was, well, I still remember how interesting it was at first (steel for currency?) but the modules were so rail-roady.The Grey Box was fun and mysterious and open-ended. Just like GH. I still prefer GH, but I respect Grey Box FR.I would add that while FR might have more maps, GH had THE map. Darlene > Every Other Map.Bonus True Fact- Gygax loved the Darlene Map so much that he actually moved his home campaign to the made-up GH after he saw it!!!!*This isn't strictly true. There were 3PP, like City State and Pelinore. And TSR had released Lankhmar as a supplement, and the original OA was in Kara-Tur, which had not yet been gobbled up into FR.ETA- I think my love for the Grey Box (and my ...less love... for subsequent FR offerings) is similar to why I love the '83 GH campaign setting. I like campaign settings that give you ideas and hooks, but don't have so much cruft and lore that you ever feel chained to some inflexible material.</blockquote>

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