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I think so too. As has been observed, Gygaxian/Greyhawk/D&D elves are really not very like Tolkien's but are drawn from other sources.

Literary fictional settings are generally defined by their original authors. When authors die and their estates get ownership of the property, subsequent licensed writings by other authors are rarely ...

Greyhawk Adventures: An odd miscellany by Jim Ward that I found pretty dull
City of Greyhawk: Beginning of the post-Gygax TSR version of Greyhawk, the most detailed published version of the city (but ...

Lejendary Earth is closer to Oerth than Ærth is in terms of tone and magic. I have the PDF versions of the Lejendary Earth Gazetteer and Noble Knights and Dark Lands, which covers the continents of Va ...

'Fiction' is often used in RPG contexts to mean 'prose fiction narratives' as opposed to (fictional) source material. It may be a sloppy useage, but it's no error.

If you read Gary Gygax's reports of his Castle Zagyg playtests (with either AD&D or Castles & Crusades rules), you'll see he's giving XP in improvised lump sums (though by no means solely for roleplay ...

The fact is that a great many people *have* been inspired by the 1980 and 1983 sets, and found them just what they needed. Others not so, but that doesn't make the products objectively deficient.

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You're not pointing out faults in the World of Greyhawk, you're telling us how your preferences differ from the design philosophies of Gary Gygax and other Greyhawk writers. That's fine, but don't fra ...

Suffice it to say that a lot of the ideas about the Realms mentioned here are pure Internet canard-hearsay and bear no relation to the published products or the actual spirit of the setting. Nitescree ...

I wouldn't quite say D&D = Greyhawk, even for the Gygaxian Greyhawk I'm talking about. But the World of Greyhawk is where D&D was playtested, and where all the assumptions of the rules, such as huge m ...

Baggins,

The World of Greyhawk was created for D&D, and until the mid-1980s at least, AD&D and the World of Greyhawk were two sides of the same coin, complementary parts of the complete world. Wher ...

Reasons to get 3E are if you're dissatisfied with AD&D, feel like trying something new, think you'd like a more complex and unified system better, or want to play with 3E players. Otherwise, 1st editi ...

For me, what defines the World of Greyhawk is:

The Lake Geneva play style, with its particular mix of role assumption and strategic elements, and focus on fun and adventure over lengthy histories a ...

Gary Gygax said in 1999:Although I never published anything, in my original Gyeyhawk campaign, the Oerth was indeed hollow. For sake of expediency I used a pastiche of material from ERB's *Pellucidar ...

Gary Gygax's The Canting Crew, published by Troll Lord Games, of course, though I use bits from it rather than the sample city of Ludnum outright. Living Fantasy has more on Gary's vision of medieval- ...

After the Blumes and Lorraine Williams throw Gary out of his own company, the very next WG module they publish takes the Greyhawk Castle dungeons, a figurehead of Gary's AD&D and a long-awaited produc ...

WG7 is disregarded by just about everyone because it was a nasty, mean-spirited attack on Gary Gygax and his campaign.