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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3972119" data-attributes="member: 32164">Gygax wasn't a worldbuilder.When you read his playlogs, they were just vast forays into dungeons full of monsters. I don't think there was anything to "Greyhawk" except for the City of.His monster book is a disjointed hodgepodge of mythological creatures and made-up ones with mythological (or invented) names. And he didn't CARE that it was a kitchen sink approach. Because he was writing a toolkit for people to make their own game, rather than a game people could play "out of the box" so to speak.There's nothing wrong with that approach, but let's be clear about what he was doing. Gary was providing a "framework" for fantasy roleplaying. That's all. He was most emphatically not providing a ready-to-play game or game world.Do you really want to go there and start picking apart the "generic-ness" of the system's conceits?Law-Chaos dichotomyGreat Wheel CosmologyOrcs...and three separate goblin racesSubraces - need I say more?Fire and forget magicThe 8 philosophical "schools" of magicArcane/divine magic divisionOriental monks interacting with mounted knightsShall I go on?</blockquote>