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<blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3590756" data-attributes="member: 33060">That the&quot;information is &quot;out there,&quot; some where, misses the point.&nbsp; If Greyhawk is to attract new fans one of the attractions is not going to be that you have to conduct a scavenger hunt to find the basics of the setting.&nbsp; The basic setting information needs to be in print, readiably available.&nbsp; What's more, the previous comprehensive GH setting treatments (Folio, 83 Box, FtA, LGG) are all dated in terms of GH canon.&nbsp; The setting has advanced beyond each of these.&nbsp; Thus, the general information that is &quot;out there&quot; is not current with the subsequently developed details of the setting. LGG comes the closest but it has been passed by by degrees by 3X Wotc references, Paizo-Hawk and certainly by Living Greyhawk.What's more, if there was a Gaming Product Hall of Fame, the Folio would be in it, and not just because it was the first.&nbsp; Gary Gygax, in relatively few pages, provied a staggering amount of detail in the Folio, to include any number of seemingly throwaway bits that have inspired other Greyhawk designers for years.&nbsp; And there remain bits that still await exploration for the GH fan.&nbsp; The Folio is nothing short of a masterpiece of design even by todays standards and too look solely at its page length misses the forest for the trees.&nbsp; IMO.&nbsp; YMMV.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GVDammerung, post: 3590756, member: 33060"] That the"information is "out there," some where, misses the point. If Greyhawk is to attract new fans one of the attractions is not going to be that you have to conduct a scavenger hunt to find the basics of the setting. The basic setting information needs to be in print, readiably available. What's more, the previous comprehensive GH setting treatments (Folio, 83 Box, FtA, LGG) are all dated in terms of GH canon. The setting has advanced beyond each of these. Thus, the general information that is "out there" is not current with the subsequently developed details of the setting. LGG comes the closest but it has been passed by by degrees by 3X Wotc references, Paizo-Hawk and certainly by Living Greyhawk. What's more, if there was a Gaming Product Hall of Fame, the Folio would be in it, and not just because it was the first. Gary Gygax, in relatively few pages, provied a staggering amount of detail in the Folio, to include any number of seemingly throwaway bits that have inspired other Greyhawk designers for years. And there remain bits that still await exploration for the GH fan. The Folio is nothing short of a masterpiece of design even by todays standards and too look solely at its page length misses the forest for the trees. IMO. YMMV. [/QUOTE]

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