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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 7085386" data-attributes="member: 779">Early 2e basically where I started too.  I was taken in by the proliferation of different campaign worlds in 2e, but even back then I found FR to be too standard even if it was the most ubiquitous campaign setting.  I remember the 2e core books trying to really campaign setting neutral, which was why Greyhawk probably didn't get much exposure back then.  It sort of got pushed out by Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance which had the novels going for them.  There were Greyhawk novels but I've only read one Gord the Rogue novel and 2 novels written by Rose Estes, the latter which no one really likes at all.  Yes, those FR and DL novels are clearly of the far more epic fantasy variety than that one Gord novel I read.  Though in my opinion the grittiness in tone between those novels clearly has to do with the changes at TSR over the periods they were written in. But it was clearly the other campaign settings that were quite different from FR, GH and DL which kept my interest. The general differences between those settings against the standard fantasy settings are far more pronounced than the difference between those 3 settings.  And personally I think 5e needs go farther outside those 3 settings than they need to go to just another one of them.</blockquote>