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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 2113328" data-attributes="member: 3457">Depends on which edition... 1e I hated Greyhawk. It wasn't that it was boring etc but because I was a Dragonlance player and it seemed so "low concept". I got over this and saw Greyhawk for what it is though, a real Sword & Sorcery setting of various shades of grey where evil kind of tips the scales in its favour. I also loved the Realms from the first boxed set and through the FR series (DWARVES DEEP ROCKS!) in 1e so Greyhawk had to go... also, the boxed set just sucked so much butt compared to the DL Adventures or Forgotten Realms box.In 2e it went two ways with a third finally overtaking the 2... I hated Dark Sun and Spelljammer. Spelljammer I see now for the hokey fun it could be, kind of like Disney's Treasure Planet and a GREAT way to do the Pirate thing with a twist. Dark Sun was just odd and I didn't like Psionics with the attack/defense modes, manifestations etc. It just reeked. Dark Sun had a LOT of neat concepts but poor execution killed it and the lack of variety. I think I could get a few years out of it now, but back then...ugh. Finally both of these were eclipsed by the dreadnought of the Forgotten Realms. MY GOD what happened? TSR's poor design sense aside (where were the spheres etc. information for priests in the boxed set?) and a few excellent products out there, what really happened?Dragonlance kind of fell to the side at this time. The Time of the Dragon boxed set rocked and I used it for a couple years and I liked a few of the adventures like the one that introduced the Kirath kit (Tree Lords?). I was extremely disappointed in the Tales of the Lance boxed set though. It contained a LOT of goodies like the character standees and the card game and the screen etc. but the map (Great Wall of China?WTF?) and what happened to the cool classes for the Knights of Solamnia and Wizards of High Sorcery? That was cool stuff and this would have been a GREAT time to canonize the Knights of Takhisis in a gaming product instead of a short story collection.3e...Midnight. Tired of hearing about it.Kalamar felt like Greyhawk without the history.Scarred Lands caught my interest for a year or so but the haphazard method that S&S released products and the incohesiveness of the setting information really hurt it. I got tired of chasing down products to get the full feel for the Scarred Lands. This is a GREAT setting with crap for presentation. If White Wolf and S&S were to release a product like the FRCS for the Scarred Lands then I think the line might have thrived. Take the best parts of Relics & Rituals and Ghelspad and the race information from the screen and you have possibly THE BEST 3e setting released to date. This setting deserved a better presentation.Strangely, FR in 3e really captures my interest. It seems like the older days of late 1e and early 2 FR and I like it. I also have rekindled my flame for Dragonlance recently...</blockquote>

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