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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 9389845" data-attributes="member: 47839">The Greyhawk fandom is way more complex than a binary Pre-1985/Post-95 split. Like Doctor Who what you think is Greyhawk really depends on what was your entry point. Here is a list (and it is not definitive):1) Folks that played at Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz's (Gary made him Co-DM when TSR started catching fire) Castle Greyhawk table at the dawn of D&D. You can still find folks from this cohort at Dragonsfoot. This started with OD&D and was the test bead for 1e.2) Folks that teased out parts of Greyhawk prior to the publishing of the Folio in 1980 (Modules, Dragon Magazine, rumor).3) World of Greyhawk Folio/Box Set (1980/1983).4) Post Gary Gygax/2nd Edition. TSR went after fan sites at this time. This was the sundering of Greyhawk fandom. There was the official TSR AOL forums and the guerilla underground that was the Greytalk mail list (this morphed into an IRC channel and the Canonfire website when the heat died down).5) Greyhawk Wars/From The Ashes. We can call this the Carl Sargent era.5) Silver Age of Greyhawk under Anne Brown and Roger E. Moore. Sean K. Reynolds cut his teeth on a bunch of these.6) 3e and Living Greyhawk.7) Paizohawk and the birth of the adventure path in Dungeon magazine.I personally nibbled at #2 but was all in with #3 when I bought the Folio in 1980. I have played or run every version since. My stance on what is and what isn't Greyhawk has evolved. Frankly I have come full circle back to the days of the Folio/Box Set when you had to create your own content and/or wait for the very slow churn from Gygax.</blockquote>

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