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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 2592636" data-attributes="member: 926">Greyhawk to me is medieval Earth dialed a few clicks to the left.  Lovecraft, Moorcock, and Howard seem to me as the 3 biggest influences, as for my flavor of Greyhawk, at least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Comparing the Realms to Greyhawk, I would say there is a change in tone, but not much else.  Both are pretty standard D&D.  In the Realms youve got certain bad guys that work in certain ways, say the Zhents, who are pretty standard "take over the world" bad guys, who mostly work as generic villains.  Plus a whole slew of other nasty groups.  The Red Wizards are a good example of an empire of evil wizards, and thier model could be used in just about any setting.  In Grewhawk, bad guys tend to be more demonic than human tyrants.  Iuz is a good example.  Also the racist Scarlet Brotherhood.   And the devil worshipping Horned Society.  Demon and Devil lords command big followings, as opposed to the Realms evil gods and nasty humans.  Plus, in Greyhawk, its very likely that good people will be at odds (and at war) as a matter of politics, different kigndoms having different priorities and agendas.  And while in the Realms you have the Harpers working for good and balance, in Greyhawk the only thing I can think of similiar is maybe the druidic society, which works for neutrality only.      Take this with a grain of salt, as Ive only been following Greyhawk since about 95, and the Realms since about 2001.  All in all I like Greyhawk a smidge better.</blockquote>

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