Herobizkit
Adventurer
I've been fortunate enough to come across some of these old gems and, as I re-read them, I find they are ridiculously useful for any kind of campaign you can imagine.
For the uninitiated, the old Gazetteers were originally produced for OD&D. There were 14 or so of them and each one detailled a specific "province" of the Greyhawk world. Some of these were loosely modelled after real-world cultures, one had an all-mage province, one for humanoids, one for merchants... and each module gave the players and DMs new campaign options (for example, the Orcs of Thar presented many different humanoids as player characters and how each humanoid race related with one another... AND what kind of kid would be created if, say, a Kobold were to somehow mate with a Troll).
The burning question is... has WOTC or anyone reproduced this rich campaign setting (ie is it Kingdoms of Kalamar or under some other title) or are there plans to reproduce them in a large or modular format?
I've seen some of them for sale on eBay, but I'm not prepared to drop 40 bucks a pop.
For the uninitiated, the old Gazetteers were originally produced for OD&D. There were 14 or so of them and each one detailled a specific "province" of the Greyhawk world. Some of these were loosely modelled after real-world cultures, one had an all-mage province, one for humanoids, one for merchants... and each module gave the players and DMs new campaign options (for example, the Orcs of Thar presented many different humanoids as player characters and how each humanoid race related with one another... AND what kind of kid would be created if, say, a Kobold were to somehow mate with a Troll).
The burning question is... has WOTC or anyone reproduced this rich campaign setting (ie is it Kingdoms of Kalamar or under some other title) or are there plans to reproduce them in a large or modular format?
I've seen some of them for sale on eBay, but I'm not prepared to drop 40 bucks a pop.
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