So I'm contemplating a campaign setting for the Advanced Adventures line of 1e modules and wondered what type of presentation people preferred: the original Greyhawk folio, the Greyhawk gold box that came later, or the 1st Forgotten Realms box (the gray box, not the black box).
Personally, I'm a Folio guy, although I have a soft spot for the gold box as well. What do you all think? I'm leaving the poll up top of the blog until it expires.
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1 vote for Greyhawk folio.
One of the things I like about the Advanced Adventures line is that I feel they fit in with my Greyhawk campaign (or any similar setting). As a parallel I felt less well disposed towards the DCC line when it got its own specific campaign setting. So whilst I think on the whole I would prefer the Greyhawk folio for brevity and space for the imagination, when it comes to campaign settings that are interesting for their own sake the Grey Box Forgotten Realms is quite appealing. On the whole, I think that I would get more use out of small specific detailed locales that can be dropped in to a campaign, rather than an overarching structure.
Folio for me. I agree with Matthew's comment on utility over appeal.
For the record, the modules themselves would not become setting-specific in any way. They would continue to be as they have always been - designed for easy drag-and-drop into just about anyone's 1e campaign world.
The idea of the setting would be to create *additional* areas of interest or opportunity around which the various adventures form a more cohesive view.
Matthew, if I could ask, what would be an example of something "small specific" that you would find more interesting? I'm not sure I'm understanding what you're saying and would appreciate some clarification.
An example would be Yggsburgh (though that went rather too far in minutia) or AA13 White Dragon Run. A sort of micro setting that can be inserted into an existing campaign.
Ah, I see what you mean. More of a "single hex" type area rather than a sub-continent type. Gotcha.
Yeah, Conley's Points of Light would be another good example on a larger scale. Basically modular campaign sections, rather than an overarching structure.
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