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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8080999" data-attributes="member: 22779">Something to pay attention to too when comparing Grehawk to FR is when people talk about there being a wizard under every bush in Forgotten Realms, it's because FR has an order of magnitude more material written for it than GH.  Hundreds of novels, dozens and dozens of sourcebooks.  We're talking tens of thousands of pages of setting details have been produced for Forgotten Realms whereas GH has probably less and a couple of thousand at a stretch, if we include novels and every single scrap.It's not so much that FR has more wizards per se, it's just that FR has more EVERYTHING.  All those tons of details.One thing I'm curious about that I've never seen compared - how big is Greyhawk compared to, say, The Sword Coast.  I've seen comparisons between the real world and FR - the Sword Coast is about the size of a fair chunk of the continental United States - ie, freaking HUGE.  Just how big is Greyhawk compared to FR?  Note, I don't mean Oerth compared to Faerun since most of Oerth isn't detailed.  There's some non-canon bits outside of the Greyhawk area, but, largely, we don't know what's out there.</blockquote>