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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8468914" data-attributes="member: 7025997">That's a nice summary of the setting--you brought a lot more historical knowledge to this than I had when I read it. It does make sense a Canadian would have a different sense of space than a Western European!I actually did read the 1st ed FR setting cover-to-cover, back in high school. I was a big fan of the goldbox games, and was curious to see the actual stats for the Zhentarim and so on. The Savage Frontier duo was based pretty clearly on the Savage Frontier supplement. (Though practically all the dungeons in those games were in cities, probably due to technical limitations of the era.)It was pretty common in older settings to leave a lot of big blank areas so DMs could make up their own stuff.Dungeon-crawling was the oldest form of D&amp;D and I'm guessing they were trying to play up the urban aspects in 2e so they could sell more supplements. But I'm sure someone who knows more about this than me can comment.2nd ed was trying to deal with a moral panic around Satanism, so I'm not surprised they took out a lot of the darker elements of the setting. This was the era when they famously got rid of the half-orc and assassin and changed devils and demons to baatezu and tanar'ri.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8468914, member: 7025997"] That's a nice summary of the setting--you brought a lot more historical knowledge to this than I had when I read it. It [I]does[/I] make sense a Canadian would have a different sense of space than a Western European! I actually [I]did[/I] read the 1st ed FR setting cover-to-cover, back in high school. I was a big fan of the goldbox games, and was curious to see the actual stats for the Zhentarim and so on. The Savage Frontier duo was based pretty clearly on the Savage Frontier supplement. (Though practically all the dungeons in those games were in cities, probably due to technical limitations of the era.) It was pretty common in older settings to leave a lot of big blank areas so DMs could make up their own stuff. Dungeon-crawling was the oldest form of D&D and I'm guessing they were trying to play up the urban aspects in 2e so they could sell more supplements. But I'm sure someone who knows more about this than me can comment. 2nd ed was trying to deal with a moral panic around Satanism, so I'm not surprised they took out a lot of the darker elements of the setting. This was the era when they famously got rid of the half-orc and assassin and changed devils and demons to baatezu and tanar'ri. [/QUOTE]

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