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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Ghost" data-source="post: 4814602" data-attributes="member: 60281">Interesting. My impressions of Greyhawk were largely formed by the artwork used in the 1983 boxed set. That was my first foray into D&D. The modules came later and after my impressions were already set.The cover of the box depicts three knights riding across the plains with a very medieval-looking castle in the back ground. The first image I saw when I opened the cover to the guide was the heraldry of the various Kingdoms, cities, and clans. This only enhanced the medieval feeling. The rest of the imagery in the guide looked and felt very medieval. The exceptions being the Flan and their Native American look (one picture, page 15) and the Bakluni and the Arabian Nights look (one picture, page 43). The images in the glossography continued that look.Contrast that with the Eberron source book wihich showed a warforged fighter on the cover. Pages 1 and 2 had a large layout with an elf wielding a staff with a crystal behind two ghosts attacking a warforged being, a gadget-filled dwarf in the background and a fighter (ranger?) shooting arrows into a strange bladded machine. The artwork throughout continues this look.Now, I am a very visual person - I can, and do, appreciate both. I am inspired by both. I play campaigns set in both. I associate Greyhawk with medieval fantasy because its artwork. I associate Eberron with a more wahoo fantasy because its artwork. I do not think either of them represent D&D - just elements of D&D. And both can be enjoyed equally well.</blockquote>

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