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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 6232168" data-attributes="member: 78752">I just wanted to say that as much fun as it is to take sides, and criticize the foibles of Greyhawk, and call attention to how far down their heads the collective hair of the Greyhawk fandom has migrated, I'm honestly pleased to see that Greyhawk is going to take this one.I voted for Planescape because it was really my first /serious/ AD&D setting.  My first sessions of Rules Cyclopedia D&D were run in a heavily homebrewed Kingdom of Ierendi, on what I just now learned was apparently Safari Island (you would not have known, although the subtropical climate persists into my current 13th Age homebrew).  I also dabbled in Krynn while I was reading the Dragonlance novels for the first time, but Planescape was the first setting to really capture my imagination.  By the time I graduated from college I owned every book released for the setting and a handful of tie-ins, to boot.  I remember being fascinated by the planes as early as ten years old, running a couple of vastly underleveled friends against the original Monster Manual version of Tiamat in her lair.They won, I think.  And thus my intense disdain for players was born, in the blackened knots of my heart-analogue.But I digress.  I also own two copies of the wood-grain AD&D1 Greyhawk boxed set.  I consider the pristine one a prized possession.  One of my earliest memories of learning the bizarre mashup of AD&D1 and BECMI D&D that my first dungeon master ran (I'm not sure he knew there was a difference) was him promising my character the throne of the Grand Duchy of Geoff.  This was before I knew about the giants.  Okay, I picked it because its heraldry was awesome.  I was eight.I don't think you can be a D&D fan of a certain age and not have some nostalgia for Greyhawk.  Even if this poll is completely statistically insignificant, I'm glad to see that the original D&D world still shines for people forty years on. No, they're the PANTS in my VEINS!OBEY THE PANTS!</blockquote>

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