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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akrasia" data-source="post: 2113700" data-attributes="member: 23012">I agree that the 2e Mystara stuff is vastly inferior to the B/RC D&D Known World material (at least based on what I have read).But my impression was that Red Steel/Savage Coast was somewhat separate from the crappy 2e 'reworks' of the KW, and heavily influenced by Bruce Heard (who wrote GAZ3 and the Princess Ark stuff, IRC).Have you actually read RS in order make this comparison, or are you basing this claim on the relative quality of other 2e AD&D Mystara products?  (This is not a snipe or anything -- I am just curious as to whether this claim is based on the merits of the Savage Coast setting itself, or a more general claim about the pre 2e versus post 2e Mystara products.)But I thought that the Princess Ark stuff does not in fact cover the Savage Coast region?In any case, tracking down the original Dragon articles sounds painfully tedious -- there is no way that I am doing this.  If I can get the Dragon CDRom sometime for a reasonable price, then that might be an option.I was hoping that the Red Steel/Savage Coast might constitute a relatively self-contained, unique campaign setting -- one that I might run sometime for C&C for a real 'change of pace'.</blockquote>