Mike Breault

I had longed for a detail description of Castle Greyhawk. There was a promise of adventures worth of Gary Gygax's D&D earlier dungeon crawl adventures in the imaginary world of Oerth. Pickens is no Gygax and his vision of Castle Grayhawk make a mockery of Gygax and his fantasy world, Oerth. Pickens' form of "humor" in this work, which is scared with cynicism. What was anticipated to be a serious and detailed account of Castle Greyhawk served to mock Oerth, its creator and its players. The impact of its publishing destroyed Oerth for this DM/player. Perhaps the new owners of TSR and rulers of Oerth the intended it to be so. - Tim Frankel… (more)