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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 1980784" data-attributes="member: 11760">The 2e boxed sets (the settings, not the modules) were actually extremely good, with the Glantri boxed set being perhaps the most imaginative setting TSR ever created other than Planescape. While I love the gazetteers as much as anyone, the boxed sets made a much more convenient jumping-on point for new players without sacrificing very much detail at all.The reason you see a lot of anger directed towards the boxed sets is mostly because of two things that aren't really related: 1) The conversion to 2e felt like a betrayal to a lot of the loyalists, 2) the timeline was moved forward. Argue whether or not these design decisions were worth making, but don't impugn the Kingdom of Adventure and Kingdom of Magic boxed sets. If basic settings were produced like that today, people would laud them as some of the best things available for D20.My only regret is that we never got the Darokin boxed set that was promised, which would have been just as different in flavor as Glantri's magocracy and canals were from Karameikos's old school flavor.</blockquote>