Over the past month, I've been reading some historical fantasy (
Between Two Fires and
His Black Tongue), some straight historical stuff (rpg supplements from Codex Integrum and the season on Frederick II of the podcast
History of the Germans), and most recently, taking a real look at the
World of Greyhawk (1980) folio. All this stuff knocking around in my head led me to believe it might be interested in borrowing an
old idea from Miranda Elkins and doing a series of blog posts developing a version of Greyhawk derived from the folio, with a Medieval history sort of feel.
I'll be using the 1980 folio as the only "canon" though I'm not opposed to taking material from the 1983 boxset and the Dragon articles written between and around the time of both publications. I'm trying to avoid more recent Greyhawk material. In keeping with the other recent inspirations, I'm going channel the historical wargamer Gygax over the pulp fan Gygax, and also I'll be using some of the ideas derived from examination of the pre-Greyhawk implied setting of D&D.
3 comments:
Recently I've been thinking similar thoughts, as I'm reading a lot of Sharon Kay Penman. Looking forward to your posts.
I purchased the 1980 folio when it came out. It was definitely a huge inspiration on my world building although I found the scale of it to be excessive.
I almost immediately began working on my own world which underwent a huge revision in 2011. My latest revision was about 3 years ago when I went to a human only campaign, which I think Greyhawk could easily be run as.
Yeah, I think human only would work well with.
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