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In the fictional ''World of Greyhawk'' campaign setting for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' roleplaying game, The Dullstrand is a region on the eastern coast of the Flanaess, mainly known for the many colourful smugglers, pirates, and fugitives that use its coast and ports as a refuge from authorities. Although Dullstrand began as a minor footnote in the original campaign setting, information about the area was greatly expanded in subsequent editions, and enables Dungeon Masters to set their games within a milieu of subtropical coastline, harsh highlands, piracy, smuggling and nautical adventure. From 2001–2008, the Dullstrand became a region of the Living Greyhawk campaign linked to play first in South Africa, and then in Switzerland. ==Developmental history== Greyhawk was a campaign world originally created by Gary Gygax in the 1970s when he was helping to develop the game of Dungeons and Dragons. When TSR published details of Gygax's campaign in 1980 and 1983, with the campaign set in the year 576 CY, the town of Dullstrand was marked on the map of the Flanaess, but it was only mentioned in passing, and no other information was available about the region, its size, people or history. After Gygax left TSR in 1985, TSR took the Greyhawk storyline in a new direction via a boxed set called ''From the Ashes'' (TSR 1064). Written by Roger E. Moore, this advanced the storyline to CY 585, the year after the end of a continent-wide war that had taken place CY 582-584. Dullstrand was again only mentioned briefly, but the following year Moore wrote a separate background article about the "Dullstrand Coast" and its history. In the meantime however, the new direction and darker tone for the Greyhawk campaign world proved to be unpopular, and in 1993, TSR stopped publishing material for Greyhawk. In 1996, Wizards of the Coast took over TSR, and in 1998 revived the moribund Greyhawk setting for their new Third Edition of Dungeons and Dragons. The storyline was advanced to CY 590, and now dealt with the new alliances and problems that had developed in the wake of the Greyhawk Wars. ''Living Greyhawk Gazetteer'' (2000) did not expand upon Moore's setting, but the city was mentioned as a possible ally of Sunndi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dullstrand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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