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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 3429972" data-attributes="member: 1613">As with my GH interest, I'm an old-school FR fan (i.e., the Dragon Magazine articles, before the first box set was released).  I always loved the sense of depth of history to the FR from those articles---that there could be history books written on the FR that you would be able to use to play a campaign at any time in its history.  I also liked lot of the magic of the FR revealed through the "Pages from the Mages" and other articles---the scroll ink forumlae, the new spells and magic items (with histories), the magic doors, magic swords, magic shields, misc. magic items hidden in the Dragon Treasure Trove specials, etc.), curses, monsters, etc., etc.  I also liked Undermountain, in concept (as the Castle Greyhawk of the FR), but not as much in execution when the boxed sets were finally released.  My love for GH however, was older, and richer.  So, I would strip-mine elements from the FRs articles, fold/spindle/mutilate them, and insert them into my versions of Greyhawk.  Spells were renamed, magic item histories discarded, and I adapted them to GH (and to my home campaigns).  I've also adapted portions of the FR into GH, sometimes (using info on Anarauch to detail the Sea of Dust, for example), or the "small town feel" of the Dalelands to build out Hommlet and the surrounding regions.That blending of gaming setttings and their elements was as natural a rolling a d6 for initiative, back in the AD&D days:  players and PCs would migrate from one campaign to another (with tweaks), characters would adventure in Highport then the Myth Drannor school of magic from Dragon #95 ("Into the Forgotten Realms"), then wherever else their wanderings took them.  While there was certainly a sense of differentiation between the worlds, there was a lot less factionalism among the fans of the settings (at least in part because the FR was new, and because GH was still supported, I'm sure <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).</blockquote>

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