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    Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work?

    WGR4: The Marklands11 %11 %11 % 11.56% (20)
    WGR5: Iuz the Evil14 %14 %14 % 14.45% (25)
    WGR6: City of Skulls5 %5 %5 % 5.78% (10)
    WGR7: Ivid the Undying27 %27 %27 % 27.75% (48)
    WGS1: Five Shall Be One0 %0 %0 % 0.00% (0)
    1043: City of Greyhawk (Box Set)15 %15 %15 % 15.03% (26)
    1064: From the Ashes (Box Set)19 %19 %19 % 19.65% (34)
    I prefer his non-Greyhawk related D&D products2 %2 %2 % 2.89% (5)
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    I prefer his non-TSR affiliated products0 %0 %0 % 0.00% (0)
    I am impartial to Carl Sargent work.2 %2 %2 % 2.89% (5)
    I do not like Carl Sargent's products4 %4 %4 % 4.05% (7)

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    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by GVDammerung on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    Confessions of a Greyhawker. I hated FtA when it came out. I thought Sargent had ruined EGGs masterpiece. Ivid turned me around on Sargent. While I still think parts of FtA were poorly thought out, I do not "hate" FtA and have come to like parts of it, particularly after the LGG filed off some of the sharper edges. Ivid was for me a seminal Greyhawk product that had a huge personal impact. Ironically, it was destined to never see print. Pity. TSR stopped at the threshhold of perhaps kicking GH into overdrive. We will never know, but I know Ivid is my vote. Hands down.

    GVD


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by abysslin (abyss@canonfire.com) on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    I really liked the 2 box sets and I believe they created a "benchmark" by which other products should try to measure up to.

    Ivid the Undying was deffinitely my favorite of Sargent's works (I love the the personality he instilled itno the Aerdy and their lands.) It is revolutionary on so many fronts, as it pertains to Greyhawkian products that had preceded it. As GVD said, I can only imagine what may have happened if it had been published.

    However, after all of the above, I fel I should vote for The Marklands as Sargent's best work from a purely, unbiased and objective standpoint.


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by Osmund-Davizid on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    I liked almost all of Sargent's products for Greyhawk. But I voted for FtA.

    This may be a matter of pure taste, but I liked the Greyhawk Wars as a means to shake up the campaign world. It gave direction and an overall purpose for the Flannaess. Granted, if you based a campaign out of the Tehn or Almor you may have been unduly and rudely surprised, but as a whole the impact of FtA spawned so many plot threads and campaign devices that it is Sargent's most useful work. Pity it was not exploited to the fullest extent or else GH might be on equal footing with other D&D worlds today.

    O-D


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by Maraudar on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    Ivid was a great piece of work and its too bad that it never saw publishing on a large scale. Tell the truth it was the first download I did after returning to greyhawk after several years and remains one of my favorite pieces of work. Sargent may not be EGG but he did contribute some truly masterful work to Greyhawk world.


    Maraudar


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by Wykthor on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    I didn't like FTA, but I'm very particular about CS's D&D module Eye of Traldar :-)


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by cwslyclgh on Thu, January 13, 2005
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    Folk, Fueds, and Factions from the city of greyhawk boxed set, which he co-wrote, is my favorite peice of Sargents greyhawk work.


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by Crag on Mon, January 17, 2005
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    I chose Ivid the Undying

    FtA is the benchmark of the Sargent era but I felt Ivid simply did a great job of crafting a viable complex rational "evil" nation without falling back on the easy moustache twirling characters that we so often see in the genre.

    Instead Aerdy became an onion with every layer revealing a new depravity to be exploited.


    Re: Which was Carl Sargent's best (Greyhawkian) Work? (Score: 1)
    by Woesinger on Tue, January 18, 2005
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    Ivid is wonderful - but obviously a work in progress. In terms of polished finished work, The Marklands can't be beaten. There's a passage in the Will Nyrond Survive? section that is truely epic and captures the true deseration and courage of those Nyrondese who chose to stay and fight, rather than flee their homeland. I've neaver read anything in anyother game supplement that's even come near touching that for atmosphere and brilliance.

    P.



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