[Uatu]

Hmm - I guess I do agree with you about most of the things you mentioned (yeah, having a single body of mages killing all renegades is a bit overboard, and the kenders do all seem like the same person). I do like Dragonlance art in general, though (well, Larry Elmore's stuff).

As for Greyhawk vs. Forgotten Realms... well, they are both fairly generic systems mostly following generic AD&D rules, but the more I dig into Greyhawk, the more I like it! FR seems to be a bit... um, corny? Or something? Compared to Greyhawk (and of course Middle Earth, which perhaps I should have listed as well...), anyway. FR is also a bit of a mishmash campaign setting that seems to have EVERYTHING - Arabian Adventures, Kara-Tur, Maztica, etc... some gods came from other pantheons (Oghma, Silvanus, Loviatar, etc.), and so on... And some things (the Seven Sisters, the Harpers) do seem a bit corny, although they can be fun, too. (I am currently running an online game (post-by-post) in the Realms, though.

Greyhawk was always vague (on purpose), while Forgotten Realms was very specific (with lots of supplements), though.