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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9486802" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I distilled like this-Imagine being in the low-information 1980s. All you had were the rumblings from conventions and the updates in Dragon Magazine. For the longest time, the Holy Grail of D&amp;D was the legendary Castle Greyhawk and its dungeons.That's right. Everyone knew about it. We all dreamed of it. The ur-dungeon. We knew of the hints, the rumors, we had read Gygax's posts in Dragon. There was nothing we wanted more. It's like being a Game of Thrones fan and waiting for GRRM to finish his new book. WHERE ARE THE PAGES???!!!???!!And then ... Gygax was ousted. I can't explain to you how shocking that was at the time. Still, the game went on.But suddenly, in the store, we saw it! What is this? WG7, CASTLE GREYHAWK???!!!!???? Can it be? Finally?So you buy it, take it home, and eagerly begin devouring it (because again, it's not like there was any advance warning or internet to tell us what we are about to see ....).And slowly, the realization that not only was this not Castle Greyhawk, it was a parody. And a mean-spirited one at that.To continue the analogy above, it would be like bringing home the new Game of Thrones book, and realizing that it was a joke book, and that the entire purpose of it was to make fun of people reading it.I get angry just thinking back on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9486802, member: 7023840"] I distilled like this- Imagine being in the low-information 1980s. All you had were the rumblings from conventions and the updates in Dragon Magazine. For the longest time, the Holy Grail of D&D was the legendary Castle Greyhawk and its dungeons. That's right. Everyone knew about it. We all dreamed of it. The ur-dungeon. We knew of the hints, the rumors, we had read Gygax's posts in Dragon. There was nothing we wanted more. It's like being a Game of Thrones fan and waiting for GRRM to finish his new book. [I]WHERE ARE THE PAGES???!!!???!![/I] And then ... Gygax was ousted. I can't explain to you how shocking that was at the time. Still, the game went on. But suddenly, in the store, we saw it! What is this? WG7, CASTLE GREYHAWK???!!!!???? Can it be? Finally? So you buy it, take it home, and eagerly begin devouring it (because again, it's not like there was any advance warning or internet to tell us what we are about to see ....). And slowly, the realization that not only was this not Castle Greyhawk, it was a parody. And a mean-spirited one at that. To continue the analogy above, it would be like bringing home the new Game of Thrones book, and realizing that it was a joke book, and that the entire purpose of it was to make fun of people reading it. I get angry just thinking back on it. [/QUOTE]

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