Talk:Adventure Path

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[edit] Greyhawk setting

The default setting for the adventure paths is nominally the "core setting", but many of the elements in the modules are Greyhawk, and have never been put in the 3rd ed. core books. These include the Amedio Jungle, Hellfurnaces, Sasserine, Diamond Lake, Dragotha, and many other details. This article could use a section discussing the complex nature of the setting, including the issues related to Wizards of the Coast and Paizo interaction where we can get sources for that; any details that were changed (like the Free City of Greyhawk becoming The Free City); and the pressure to come out with earlier and more detailed conversion notes for other settings. However, if we're going to say just one thing, it really has to be that the setting is Greyhawk, which it is. If we want to qualify that, we could say "with some elements added or changed", since that's certainly true (e.g. Free City, addition of Mystara elements in ST, Tenser/Manzorian, etc) -Harmil 14:15, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Why do we have to say anything about the subject at all, especially given that (as I think we both agree) there isn't one simple statement we can make that doesn't distort something? PurplePlatypus 14:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

According to Erik Mona, there were only 3 Greyhawk references he had to change for AoW, in order to make the AP more adaptable: the Free City of Greyhawk became the "Free City," Tenser became "Manzorian," & Bucknard became "Balakarde." Diamond Lake, Lanod neff, the Cult of the Green Lady, the Mistmarsh, the Wormcrawl Fissure, Alhaster, the Free City Arena, the Scarlet Brotherhood, Kelanen, the Vohoun Ocean, and many more elements have a long history with Greyhawk.--Robbstrd 16:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mere of Dead Men

This series of AD&D 2nd edition adventures that appeared in Dungeon (1999) was a "thematic precursor to the Shackled City Adventure Path" (Dungeon # 116, p. 69)and should, I think, be mentioned in this article. --84.50.72.7 18:42, 5 July 2007 (UTC)