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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9555959" data-attributes="member: 25619">Disagree, but everyone has a right to an opinion. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think the reason Greyhawk is popular is, yes, because it had the best adventures and the iconic characters and their spells and artifacts and all that.&nbsp; Because it was the first setting published.&nbsp; It can't really be separated from AD&amp;D (1e).I also like it because it has a played-in feeling - it was Gygax and Rob Kuntz sharing their home campaign with us, and TSR sharing their office/play testing games.And because there's so much blank space, with fan-created alternatives to maybe do this or that over there, inviting each DM to make it their own.FR strikes me as sterile, because it's written by committee to sell a bazillion setting books and everything else.&nbsp; &quot;And Here There Be Dragons&quot; has been filled in with a Domesday Book counting every candle in every room in every building in every city, or it seems to my semi-outsider self.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 9555959, member: 25619"] Disagree, but everyone has a right to an opinion. :) I think the reason Greyhawk is popular is, yes, because it had the best adventures and the iconic characters and their spells and artifacts and all that. Because it was the first setting published. It can't really be separated from AD&D (1e). I also like it because it has a played-in feeling - it was Gygax and Rob Kuntz sharing their home campaign with us, and TSR sharing their office/play testing games. And because there's so much blank space, with fan-created alternatives to maybe do this or that over there, inviting each DM to make it their own. FR strikes me as sterile, because it's written by committee to sell a bazillion setting books and everything else. "And Here There Be Dragons" has been filled in with a Domesday Book counting every candle in every room in every building in every city, or it seems to my semi-outsider self. [/QUOTE]

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