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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darius101" data-source="post: 553412" data-attributes="member: 9466">Why so popular?I would agree with what has been written so far. I just wanted to add that no campaigns are alike whether you use the published ones or not. That was the original idea behind playing i believe. Yo make a world and then tailor it to your group. I have always hated the Forgotten Realms and Loved Greyhawk. Why? Well.....Grey hawk is rich in history and although WOTC has changed it (TSR at the end did also) it has a big following on the web. If you search enough you can find some of the great stories from the original campaign that differ quite a bit from what has been published by the 'company'. Now when d20 was published I saw Scarred lands it picked it up. I put off picking up WOTC setting material (Living Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms). I loved the story they set up in the Scarred Lands Gazeteer and thought it had a ton of potential. Then the city books came out for scarred lands and well I was hooked. Scarred lands is a great setting the only one I like more for d20 is the Iron Kingdoms introduced in Withcfire. I have been a gamer for more than 25yrs and began in Greyhawk and still DM there but do not use the Greyhawk wars thing at all. The best advice I can give you is look at the Northern Journey campaign for forgotten realms and see how WOTC messed it up. Scarred Lands is a cool cool world full of potential..well worth getting. I think the question of monsters being used as fodder are the DM's fault more so than the monster being published. It took a long time and many DM's for me to see that. Playing with a clever Dm can be a deadly business if you are inexperiened no matter what monster they throw at you and despite the fact that you have a monster manual. I love rules lawyers in my games cause I twist their thought process at times...hehehe. Remember you the DM have ultimate control of every aspect of your world...this means your rules take precedence over published ones. Rules are the foundation and fun is the goal of the game. If it ain't fun don't use it. just my 2cents, Darius</blockquote>

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