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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8587031" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, landmarks in Greyhawk, outside of the very most core areas around Greyhawk itself, are pretty sparse. I mean, presumably if you have access to a lot of the old 'Living Greyhawk' and whatnot there are a lot more 'official' details than the Darlene Map, but I was never that into it. I don't think 'density' really matters anyway, its all just relative mechanical whatever. A 'leg' could be 2 miles or 200, it is really not going to change anything much.Greyhawk, OVERALL, just has the genre conception of 'big heroes', half the countries are clearly run by adventurers (maybe a lot more than that, lol). Its a land where you pick up a sword and head off with some companions into the boonies and come back rich, famous, and powerful (or maybe you die, but nobody remembers those guys). Rather different from the grim &quot;you are almost surely doomed&quot; TB2 vibe. Not to mention that in TB2 it is, canonically, pretty explicit that ALL OF SOCIETY is doomed. The monsters aren't just nasties out in boonies to be cleared out, they COMING, they intend to, and WILL end civilization, and its pretty well acknowledged this is how things will end (I mean unless something even more dire transpires first). That's why I wonder if Greyhawk can sustain the same sort of high level play that stock TB evokes. I'm sure you can make Greyhawk grimmer! Iuz is unstoppable, its just a matter of time, etc. (depends on the timeframe you take for your Greyhawk I guess).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8587031, member: 82106"] Well, landmarks in Greyhawk, outside of the very most core areas around Greyhawk itself, are pretty sparse. I mean, presumably if you have access to a lot of the old 'Living Greyhawk' and whatnot there are a lot more 'official' details than the Darlene Map, but I was never that into it. I don't think 'density' really matters anyway, its all just relative mechanical whatever. A 'leg' could be 2 miles or 200, it is really not going to change anything much. Greyhawk, OVERALL, just has the genre conception of 'big heroes', half the countries are clearly run by adventurers (maybe a lot more than that, lol). Its a land where you pick up a sword and head off with some companions into the boonies and come back rich, famous, and powerful (or maybe you die, but nobody remembers those guys). Rather different from the grim "you are almost surely doomed" TB2 vibe. Not to mention that in TB2 it is, canonically, pretty explicit that ALL OF SOCIETY is doomed. The monsters aren't just nasties out in boonies to be cleared out, they COMING, they intend to, and WILL end civilization, and its pretty well acknowledged this is how things will end (I mean unless something even more dire transpires first). That's why I wonder if Greyhawk can sustain the same sort of high level play that stock TB evokes. I'm sure you can make Greyhawk grimmer! Iuz is unstoppable, its just a matter of time, etc. (depends on the timeframe you take for your Greyhawk I guess). [/QUOTE]

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