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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dwayne" data-source="post: 7677100" data-attributes="member: 25437">GreyhawkAs a player I am going on 47 years now and started in the box sets and worked way through the 1st edition to now and Grey hawk was were I started to play the island of dread and tomb of horrors the expedition to the barrier peaks, fighting robots and aliens (mind flayers) and vegepygmies, delvening in to the forbidden realm of an evil demigod and his vile creations and offspring, combing the wasteland desert of dust for lost cities with forgotten power of ages past. Wood giants with massive bows and valley elves with suspicious alliances and other elves who were more like the mohican Indians of earth with a extreme xenophobia, the gypsies with there river barges and wondering, the mounted riders on there mechanical horses in the desert that guard a crazed mage, The bandet kindoms with there fighting and so much more that I could go on and on. But with all this there was still room for the GM to add his bit here and there and make it his own. Because in this setting you your characters were the ones that had to do the important things there was no "good guys " to bale anyone out as most was a balancing act to keep others from gaining too much power and so was left up to you as players to over come things. I liked the harshness and as some say grit but mostly I liked that it was not all mapped out and there was blank spots were no one has been or left unexplored so you could carve out a kingdom of your own. Most of the awesome spells you have come to know and love came from this world and formed the basics of every other down the line each has taken a small piece of it and ran with it. I for one would buy a setting book with all the up to date information on greyhawk along with the back grounds for the renee (gypsies ) the different races of humans, the creatures specific to that world (woodgiants, grauch elves, valley elves, ect..) And a list of all the gods to top it off with. For the younger generation you have missed out because the adventures were more hard core and death was far more permanent, I remember going through more than one character a night before I decided to stop being stupid and be a lot more cautious about touching something or opening a odd door, and black orbs are very bad.</blockquote>

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