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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 494308" data-attributes="member: 1225">I'm not sure I'm someone whose opinion you want -- I stopped playing AD&D with 1e in the late '80s, never really played in any any setting when I did play (A)D&D (it was all homebrews and/or just background that was barely mentioned), but I've owned various versions of Greyhawk, FR, and other settings for years, and even used them a little (with other game systems). Caveats given, here I go. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />All of the campaigns I currently actively run & play in are in Greyhawk; there were some FR campaigns, but they've fallen into limbo. I don't do Living Greyhawk. I liked the setup of the 3e version of the setting -- basically, large wars had just ended, leaving much evil afoot and many adventures to be had. I was also familiar with the setting from past years (I've owned the Greyhawk folio & the Greyhawk set from the middish-'80s since they came out). I had fond memories of some of the deities (though others bug me; for example, why are there no gods of the moon, or love, outside of the elven gods?).All-in-all, it seemed like a nice solid basis for a campaign, without being Too Much. The $10 gazetteer was cheap enough that I bought copies for some of the miserly/financially strapped players in my group & gave 'em away -- "Here's a map, here are the countries, don't say I never gave you anything." I occasionally visit online resources, but I often get a "Too Much Info" vibe, and sometimes find the material to not be to my tastes -- so I often don't use it. Also, some material seems to assume information that I just don't have, and can't find.Things I dislike -- hmm, there are a few, but they're really just quibbles or stylistic differences. The deities, I've mentioned (I've thought of reworking things to get a more coherent-feeling cosmology, a la the Book of the Righteous -- but hey, I'm lazy, and that would be a lot of work <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). The lack of hints (hints, mind you) at the history of the world before the Suel/Baklunish MAD show, and before the Oeridian migrations. But, hey, that just means I can make it up.</blockquote>

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