Quote from: Persimmon on June 09, 2024, 09:47:07 AM

Quote from: SHARK on June 07, 2024, 10:40:17 AM

Quote from: Lurker on June 06, 2024, 09:54:53 PMI hate to admit it but most often my world is Forgotten Realm, especially back in the day years ago when I was in HS . It was the original Gray box and a few region books (before the travesty or 'Time of Troubles').

Now if it is my home brew(s). When it is low magic I lean to a modified Tolkien Middle Earth (the lands are not completely depopulated), or it borrows heavily form early to mid-medieval times. I love the ideas and events in the King Stephen v Empress Matilda, the after effects of the conquest of Span by the Muslim raiders (and the start of the slow reconquest), and of course Charlamagne and the Vikings.

Now if it is high magic, it is WAY more renaissance (including the Black Death type events) and the wars between .... well everyone fighting everyone else at one point and time. I have never gone far enough to make it all the way to having flying ships etc, but I have always liked the idea of adding 'Stardust' type elements.

Greetings!

My friend, GREY BOX FORGOTTEN REALMS is as "Old School" as it gets! Along with some of the eartly Forgotten Realms supplements, the Wild Frontier, Moonshaes Islands, there was a great selection of them. Yes, OSR from the get go. Those products really showed TSR at their best. Excellent writing, evocative storytelling, numerous campaign hooks, interesting NPC's everywhere, lots of danger, and laced through it all were frequent surprises. Then, on top of all that, you also had excellent artwork, maps, cartography, and lots of advice on how to present the material differently, or otherwise adapt the material to your own campaign. 10/10!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I actually got a far bit of mileage out of the Kara Tur & Horde boxed sets that built upon the original Realms set.  We ran a campaign where we played all of the Oriental Adventures modules, plus the Black Courser trilogy, which I still think is quite good.