Gazetteer of the Known Realms – Initial Thoughts
Gazetteer of the Known Realms
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
February 19th, 2011 at 12:34 am
I too still have all of my old 1e and I guess you would call it 1.5e (Unearthed Arcana/ Oriental Adventures). I know this blog is like 5 years old so I would guess you wont even get this, but it was not that hard to pick up on the 3.5 rule set. I have been playing (mostly as a DM) since the early 80′s. I still have my D&D Basic box set (w/ Keep on the Borderlands”)
I found it hard to find older gamers who understood the original rules, and after playing so long I had those mostly cmiited to memory. So I evolved to the 3.5. I spent a 2 week period converting my old “Temple of Elemental Evil” to 3.5 and sure as crap, a 3,5 version was published shortly after that (I was a little irritated at that). Anyway, I suffer from insomnia so just felt like replying to your blog.