Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

Was there much in the way of 1st Edition settings? Looking at my shelf
of 1st Ed stuff, I have Dragonlance Adventures, Greyhawk Adventures, and
Oriental Adventures. That's Dragonlance, Check. Greyhawk, Check.
Kara-Tur, Check. I suppose they could do a thing on the Spells of
Glantri.. but still, it seems like a good showing for 1st ed if not for
OD&D.

woodelf wrote:

> At 9:02 -0600 11/9/03, Night_Druid wrote:
>
>>     Anyways, what I find really strange is that the headline is "back
>> to the
>> roots of D&D", and the articles are feats and such!
>
>
> See, now the part i found strange is that they say "back to the
> roots", but then list a bunch of 2nd ed (and late 2nd ed, for that
> matter) settings.  Admittedly, they *do* have Blackmoor and Greyhawk
> in there, but they also seem to have missed Known World--closest they
> come are Hollow World (much later, and really a separate setting) and
> Red Steel--which is again a very late addition, and something that
> mostly made it into print as part of the Mystara switch-over to AD&D.
> While, on the one hand i'll actually give this issue a look (anything
> for Blackmoor intrigues me, and i'd like to see how they did Red
> Steel in D20 System), something i haven't done since they dropped
> Roleplaying Reviews, on the other hand it seems to illustrate their
> current emphasis on short lifecycles: they're not putting in much
> that'd interest the *real* grognards, because i suspect most Dragon
> readers haven't even heard of the old settings, since they seem to
> think of Planescape and Birthright as "old".  From my perspective,
> anything that came out since Players Option is "new" or "recent", and
> there's no nostalgia for settings that post-date my playing of D&D
> (which pretty much ended ~'94).
> --
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