- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (24 Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786917423
- ISBN-13: 978-0786917426
- Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.5 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,449,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Gazeteer brings Greyhawk back into focus.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dungeons and Dragons Gazetteer (Paperback)
The new Gazetteer for the Dungeons and Dragons game brings the focus of the game back to Greyhawk, the original AD&D gameworld. The 32 page booklet is tructured into five chapters1: The World of D&D - a single page descrbing the calendar, and the climate and seasons. 2: The Timetable of History - three pages providing a brief history of a thousand years of Greyhawk, ending in about 590 CY - placing the current Greyhawk campaign after the Greyhawk Wars and the civil war within the Scarlet Sign. 3: Gazetteer of the Flanaess - the meat in the pie - half the booklet is the detail - each state of the Flanaess, from Ahlissa to Zeif given a standard format header, plus two or three paragraphs of description. The header includes details of the cities of each state, categorised by size into 6 ranges, details of governemnt, population breakdown, resources, and law, together with friends and alies to each state. The following text describes the state as it is today, together with some background. Sidebars in this chapter give summary backgrounds of such notables as Iuz and Rao. 4: Geography - Eight pages describing the main geogrpahical features of Greyhawk in a paragraph or two each. 5: Power Groups - The remaining three pages describe such groups as the Circle of Eight, and the Knights of the Watch. Finally a colour map is supplied - disappointingly not as pretty as the one shown on the cover, but functional enough. It's all pretty low-key and scaled at 200 miles to an inch. So - is it any good? As a DM returning to Greyhawk after many years in the Forgotten Realms, it provides me with a decent background to the Flanaess. The layout is in the new 3rd edtion style - so the content is well packed in, without too many unnecessary illustrations. I would have to describe it though as more competent than inspiring.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A perfect primer for those entering Greyhawk,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dungeons and Dragons Gazetteer (Paperback)
The basic background for the new D&D and undoubtedly the best Greyhawk supplement in years. Keeping it simple is the name of the game so rather than droning on for chapters about the Flaeness's extensive 25 year (real time) history the gazetteer keeps it to two pages of light reading. Each empire, town or geographical feature has an entry that tells you in general terms what's there and how it relates to the things adjacent to it. DM's are free to customise the world rather than feeling that they're going to be spending a fortune on supplements. This is ideal and the only reason I don't give it five stars is that more adventure hooks would be handy for novice players.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
3rd Edition AD&D campaign builder MUST-HAVE!,
This review is from: Dungeons and Dragons Gazetteer (Paperback)
If you're building adventures for AD&D 3rd edition or simply playing the game this book is for you! It is a detailed analysis of the lands around Greyhawk. The guide provides climate/population/land details but also allows the DM's personal touch when campaign-building. Even if you're not building a campaign it is a very good addition to your ad&d collection as historical and reference reading. It's worth having a look as it provides essential information on the land on which 3rd Edition ad&d is based upon.
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