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Gazetteer of the Known Realms is Goodman Games stab at a campaign setting.  The reason I bought this was because I’m a huge fan of the Dungeon Crawl Classic series so I went out on a limb and picked it up.

If I had to compare it to a campaign setting, I’d say it most resembles Greyhawk.  It does’t quite have the depth of Faerun (Forgotten Realms) or of something like Ptolus but it’s solid it’s own right.  For one thing, it allows you to link up various Dungeon Crawl Classics and basically turn them into a campaign and it also provides some solid material for things to do while going from one dungeon to the other.  The maps are very nice and well put together and there’s even two Dungeon Crawl Classic modules that come with it.

For about ten years, I’ve been putting together a massive campaign that I’ve never had a chance to run.  Most of it is in my head and I’ve been waiting to play it for some time (which is probably when it’ll be documented).  I also have very limited experience running version 3.5.  I grew up with old school D&D and still have all of my first edition hardcovers.  I have one group who I know I could get together to play, I might run a Dungeon Crawl Classic campaign using Gazetteer of the Known Realms first so we all master the 3.5 rules before starting my grand campaign.