Voadam
Legend
I enjoyed the 2e From the Ashes era too.
The timeline advanced a little from 1e and the Greyhawk Wars happened with conflicts erupting across the continent. Potential threats like the Scarlet Brotherhood acted and caused damage and now openly ruled a bunch of areas. Many kingdoms were conquered or hit hard. Evil was on the rise. Iuz conquered lots and had summoned up huge amounts of fiends and they were now actively in the world. Great Kingdom splintered but lots of former GK regional rulers are now Hextorian death knight like undead rulers of smaller kingdoms.
The Wars concluded with a truce but the peace is uneasy and the forces of good in the world have definitely fallen behind, meaning more for individual heroes to step up to.
A more actively dark swords and sorcery D&D setting.
Also it has the more in-depth 2e god descriptions.
The timeline advanced a little from 1e and the Greyhawk Wars happened with conflicts erupting across the continent. Potential threats like the Scarlet Brotherhood acted and caused damage and now openly ruled a bunch of areas. Many kingdoms were conquered or hit hard. Evil was on the rise. Iuz conquered lots and had summoned up huge amounts of fiends and they were now actively in the world. Great Kingdom splintered but lots of former GK regional rulers are now Hextorian death knight like undead rulers of smaller kingdoms.
The Wars concluded with a truce but the peace is uneasy and the forces of good in the world have definitely fallen behind, meaning more for individual heroes to step up to.
A more actively dark swords and sorcery D&D setting.
Also it has the more in-depth 2e god descriptions.