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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5285460" data-attributes="member: 14159">Really?Where were the analogues of Egypt and Central America (for example) in Greyhawk?  It's pretty much all fantasy pseudo-Europe, at least everything I've ever seen of that setting (except for the 1e version of Kara Tur which places it on this world instead of Toril)Where were the analogues of Imperial China and India (or other places) in Dragonlance?Where were the analogues of India and Arabia (ect.) in Birthright?  If there was an official D&D world that was more western-European in style, I can't think of it.Where were the analogues of Feudal Japan (ect.) in Eberron?  It doesn't even really have analogues of medieval Europe, more like 19th and early 20th century Europe at best.You could have a prime-world with analogues of anything in Planescape or Spelljammer, but those settings were intentionally very open ended and designed to let the DM insert new sub-settings like cultural analogues at will (but even then, none were in the canonical texts that I know of).The only other official D&D setting I can think of with a pattern of real-world analogues is Mystara, which was more of the Basic D&D setting that had an AD&D treatment performed in the 2e era.</blockquote>