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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Faraer[/i] [br]: a catch-up for anyone who missed the history In the early 1970s in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, D&D was born in the dungeons of Castle Greyhawk. Gary Gygax's many-levelled dungeon beneath the ruins of the castle near Greyhawk's City was where the rules and conventions of D&D emerged, and in the original 1974 booklets it was assumed that D&D campaigns took place largely in such mega-dungeons. Gygax planned to publish this legendary place, but the responsibilities of running TSR and then being thrown out of TSR stopped him, and the mega-dungeon trope waned. After Gygax was gone, TSR published two versions of the Castle dungeons, the satirical WG7 and the straight WGR1, but neither was the real thing. Finally, thirty years on, Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz are writing up the Castle for publication, and the renamed [url="http://www.trolllord.com/zagyg.htm"][i]Castle Zagyg[/i][/url] will see print from Troll Lord Games. The first volume is an overland and urban setting; the first levels of the castle will follow. The Realms, of course, has its own nods to the Greyhawk Castle and dungeons: Undermountain and the Dungeon of the Crypt, delved by the Company of Crazed Venturers in the late 1970s/early 1980s and visited by the Knights of Myth Drannor circa the mid-1980s. Of the many levels these two great dungeons have between them, three have seen print. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.