saijin

Greyhawk came out originally around 1985. Forgotten Realms was released about 5 to 10 years after that. The original Grayhawk set up all the political and societal guidelines for the world. Currently, Avid players of the PnP game can participate in campaign call Living Greyhawk. Living Greyhawk is a monitored world. Individual groups are sent different modules to play out and the results are sent back to the central monitors that record the results and adjust the world history appropriately. Forgotten Realms was released in the early 90's (I think :ph34r: ) and again provided a gaming world with some detail on politics etc. FR has been used as the setting of many computer games as well as the setting for many novels. I think the books have made FR much more popular since players can identify more closely with the world since they can read all the novels that are based on that world.