Greyhawk Adventures: From the Ashes/Boxed Set (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd ed) [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: November 1992 | Series: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd ed

From the Ashes is a Dungeons & Dragons gaming accessory for the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. It was published in 1992 by TSR, as a boxed set of materials. The work was primarily designed and written by Carl Sargent. The accessory was the first major update of the entire campaign setting to be published after the first boxed set, World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting, was released in 1983. From the Ashes focuses on the situation on the Flanaess in the spring of 585 CY, in the immediate aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 210 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast; Bks/Game edition (November 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560763418
• ISBN-13: 978-1560763413
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,200,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Campaign Setting, August 6, 2000

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JH "hobbs_tx" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greyhawk Adventures: From the Ashes/Boxed Set (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd ed) (Hardcover)

This boxed set picks up where the Greyhawk Wars boxed set left off. The year is 585 CY and the wars have ended between Iuz and the lands of good. From the Ashes includes two 96 pg booklets, three maps and 20 card sheets.

Two of the maps are replicas of the world maps supplied with the original boxed set produced in the early 80s. The third is a zoomed in map of Greyhawk City and the surrounding lands. The card sheets outline many different topics including important NPCs, 6 short adventures, wandering encounters, and much more.

The booklets are the Atlas of the Flanaess and Campaign Book. The Atlas of the Flanaess covers and updates all of the imformation is the original boxed set. This includes info on history of the Flanaess, the people, languages, money and trade, all the lands and countries of the Flanaess, mysterious places and rumors which can be developed into adventures, and details about the gods which includes some specialty priests. The Campaingn Book details the areas displayed in the third map around Greyhawk City. This book does not go into the details of Greyhawk City, but does update information found in The City of Greyhawk Boxed Set(582 CY). The detailed information on the surrounding lands is for the most part completely new and quite interesting and well written.

This boxed set in truly a great piece with lots of new information that could be used to enchance an old Greyhawk campaign or start a new one. If you can find this set, it is definitely worth it even though a lot of this information will be updated in the new Living Greyhawk campaign being developed by the RPGA.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Harsh revision to WOG, August 3, 2000

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This review is from: Greyhawk Adventures: From the Ashes/Boxed Set (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd ed) (Hardcover)

This boxed set recast the World of greyhawk as a Dark Fantasy setting after wars that saw evil triumphant across most of the gaming continent. It includes speicalty priests and spells for 2nd edition greyhawk gods and lots of in depth world and area info.