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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3411661" data-attributes="member: 16574">FWIW, here's part of an essay I wrote a couple years back describing what I see as the difference between &quot;The World of Greyhawk&quot; as default AD&amp;D campaign-world (exemplified by the 1980 folio and various WoG-set but not Gygax-penned modules of the early 80s) and &quot;Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk&quot; (exemplified by the 1983 boxed set, Gygax's modules, and the Gord novels):(note: &quot;Greyhawk #1&quot; in this essay is the original Greyhawk Campaign of the 70s, which isn't germane to this particular discussion)IMO a lot of the miscommunication and rancor among various factions of Greyhawk fans stems from a failure to sufficiently differentiate between these two conceptions.&nbsp; People who see Greyhawk #2 either don't see what the big deal is with other authors continuing to detail the world or think even Gygax himself betrayed the original world by overdetailing (and eventually destroying) it in the 1983 set and Gord novels. Fans of Greyhawk #3, OTOH, take offense at the very notion of anyone other than Gygax (and perhaps Kuntz) continuing to develop the world, and the idea is so offensive that the actual quality of the development is almost immaterial.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 3411661, member: 16574"] FWIW, here's part of an essay I wrote a couple years back describing what I see as the difference between "The World of Greyhawk" as default AD&D campaign-world (exemplified by the 1980 folio and various WoG-set but not Gygax-penned modules of the early 80s) and "Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk" (exemplified by the 1983 boxed set, Gygax's modules, and the Gord novels): (note: "Greyhawk #1" in this essay is the original Greyhawk Campaign of the 70s, which isn't germane to this particular discussion) IMO a lot of the miscommunication and rancor among various factions of Greyhawk fans stems from a failure to sufficiently differentiate between these two conceptions. People who see Greyhawk #2 either don't see what the big deal is with other authors continuing to detail the world or think even Gygax himself betrayed the original world by overdetailing (and eventually destroying) it in the 1983 set and Gord novels. Fans of Greyhawk #3, OTOH, take offense at the very notion of anyone other than Gygax (and perhaps Kuntz) continuing to develop the world, and the idea is so offensive that the actual quality of the development is almost immaterial. [/QUOTE]

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