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Reading this article, it seems to me that what the author thinks of when they say "D&D" is actually Forgotten Realms. Which is why I massively prefer Eberron,
by baxuz 2y ago
Reading this article, it seems to me that what the author thinks of when they say "D&D" is actually Forgotten Realms.
Which is why I massively prefer Eberron, as the original setting makes no sense at all.
Not that Eberron is without its faults but at least it's coherent and embraces what it is.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/279-welcome-to-eberron-an-introduction-to-a-realm-of https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/279-welcome-to-eberron-an-in...
- coolsunglasses 2y agoI just finished posting a comment disagreeing with the author and I think you've nailed the problem with their argument more succinctly than I did. They're assuming "Forgotten Realms" and AD&D, not OD&D.
- kagakuninja 2y agoThe author was specifically referring to the original 3 book rules, which pre-dated Forgotten Realms by 13 years.
- pdonis 2y ago> the original setting Forgotten Realms was not the original setting of D&D. To the extent there was one, it was Gygax's Greyhawk campaign.
- baxuz 2y agoTIL. I thought that Greyhawk and Dragonlance came after Forgotten Realms!
- pdonis 2y agoThis Wikipedia article has a good timeline showing when the various D&D settings were first released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_campaign_settings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_campaign_... Note that Blackmoor and Greyhawk, at least, were used by their respective creators/DMs (Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax) for quite a few years before being published. I suspect that's true of at least some of the other settings as well (Forgotten Realms was Ed Greenwood's campaign world before it was published--it looks like it was a D&D campaign world more or less from the release of AD&D 1st Edition in 1978).
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- bcrosby95 2y agoNote that Blackmoor existed as a game setting before D&D was ever published. Arguably it's where the role playing aspect of it came from, as Dave Arneson was heavily influenced by, and participated in, Braunstein games.