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I think that if you read the entire passage it points more clearly toward Gygax' intent. "When Heironeous chose lawful good, Hextor opted to serve lawful evil. Always inferior to his half-brother, the ...

These Days, I actually think that D&D would be better served by a well-done TV series. It wouldn't have to be a super-budget smash hit to be successful and the material would be better served by a ...

But deities & demigods is full of deities with clerical levels. Are they or have they been worshippers of other deities? Do deities need an explanation for their class levels? Perhaps.

IMO, tho ...

I think that all the humanoids should be able to spawn unique individuals that are more powerful or versatile than the average tribesman. I do not like having a lot of classed individuals among a huma ...

One might question whether the humanoids merely lack the ability to become or remain "civilized" or if they also lack the interest to adopt the more civilized ways. It would be interesting to meet a h ...

Casting spells willy-nilly should have an effect on the caster's alignment - first to chaotic and if there is a continued lack of concern for one's allies it might even be considered evil. Having the ...

Ewwwww! Bad imagery, gotta erase - where's my forget spell!

A few Animal lords were detailed in the Planescape monster compendiums (I think it was PSMC II). For some reason they made the Cat Lord female!

I've decided to combine Varisia with Aquaria/New Empyrea as the continent on the other side of the Solnor Ocean. The Cheliax are Oeridian descendents (a House close to Naelax) that brought devil worsh ...

Don't forget that Dyvers became independent because of resentment of the close ties with the religious LG Veluna. Why would a decent, money-grubbing merchant feel threatened by a peaceful and merciful ...

Consider the implications for monarchial succession, if nothing else. It would place tremendous power in the hands of the priests. Courtly, factions arise both resurrection and succession.

The mona ...

I agree that an essentially permanent invisibility from a 2nd-level spell is a bit powerful. Probably it never became a problem in the original campaign. The 24-hour limit was probably needed to clari ...

I've recently become inspired by music inspired by old Swedish folkmusic. When depicting the more rural areas of civilized kingdoms I find that bands such as Hedningarna, Garmarna, Boot and Groupa or ...

IMO it all boils down to what animation means.

If a group of corpses is animated what is happening? Is it a dark force of negative energy that "possesses" the corpses and provide the energy for the ...

For an example of a similar adventure, look att I9. This module is generic but sometimes placed on Oerth. I placed it myself in Ull.

I once started a Lendore Isle campaign by having the PCs on a boat travelling between Rel Astra and the Lordship of the Isles when a terrible storm hit them and blew them off course and they ended up ...

We've always called it the Duchy of JOFF, as in Geoffrey perhaps.

Nyr Dyv has been pronounced with Swedish y's which have no English equivalent but is akin to the French u (as in Côte d'Azure).

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An interesting topic. I'm inclined towards the Planescape view that belief is paramount and can alter reality. In that view, powers can be altered as well. I have two ideas around this topic: fixed na ...

I was thinking abouth the lack of a proper God of the Dead in the Flanaess. Sure, Nerull is the Grim Reaper but he is only the God of Death. Wee Jas has an aspect as a Godess of Death but it has been ...

Entropy cannot be contained but its immediate and total effect can be detained or decreased. Tharizdun (and the entity Entropy) are coalesced forms of Entropy that consumed everything else. That shoul ...

It seems that a 10th-level blacksmith, or any other expert, with above average fighting ability could only have gained the martial expertise by actually doing some fighting. I do think that it is poss ...

Ah, this is wrong! Wink

Surely there must be some essence, some core elements that must be canon or we cannot share a Greyhawk at all. Can Mordenkainen be a cleric, Iuz a golem, the Sea of Dust ...

There was a lot of interesting and inspiring material in the Dragon but there was also a lot of useless articles and a lot repetition of the popular subjects. I would love a massive best of series but ...

That looks like the art from B11, which is set in the Grand Duchy of Karameikos of the Known World.

Both Oerthblood and Earthblood reminds me of Covenant and the potent Earthblood that could be found at the root of the tallest peak in the Westron mountains. One sip granted the drinker a wish!

In addition, not every faith will find it appropriate to place continual light spells, or any other spell, willy-nilly around their community - and never for free!

I guess that there will be a vast ...

What happens in the afterlife in a D&D game is a very interesting question and it has never been truly answered outside the spurious sources of Planescape. The game, in its beginnings, really did ...

Great map! Odd Alley is one of my favorite passages game-wise from the Gord books.

BTW, anyone know swedish? I found a reference on wikipedia (on an unrelated subject) that used the word "lärare" on the swedish translation. I think it means light or knowledge, based on the english ...

The maps are very close, but there are several locations on the From the Ashes maps that do not exist on the Darlene maps (Devarnish, Rel Deven, Kalstrand, and a couple more). I reason that these set ...

The articles Gary Gygax (and Rob Kuntz) wrote in the Dragon were intended to cover all of the Flanaess so in that regard all areas were officially of equal worth and merit. Closer scrutiny, however, r ...

Since I haven't updated to the 3.x rules I have even less taste for 4E. Even so it gladdens me to see Paizo do the reasonable thing towards their customers. If only they could have retained the rights ...

The Plains of the Paynims, as shown on Darlene's map, doesn't reach the sea at one end nor start in mountains at the other end. The plains are not the traditional sand desert either. The best option i ...

My players have just reached Highfolk town and I've been a little sketchy about its size and exactl lauout so far. I have rejected the LG map for the same reasons mentioned above but am loathe to make ...

Is there any news regarding the supposed continuation of the Maze series? M5 or even M6 in the Pipe, as it were?

So, you're saying that the sub-par products from the WotC during the last year is nothing to worry about since they are meant to be sub-par? If we wait a while and buy the new core books we will get b ...

I find it somewhat amusing that the current D&D community is preparing for the same splintering effect that came with the introduction of 3E. I do not find it amusing that the same type of condesc ...

I really like the idea of strip-mining the castle for worked stone to use in the growing city. This could lead to great adventure hooks - a wall that has mysterious powers plagues a city block, a pair ...

I kinda like the idea of an intelligent para-elemental entity of mud and ooze that controls the marsh from below. Reminds me of the lurker of the Sarangrave Flats!

Actually, Susserus are a type of vegetable monster that can be found back in Fiend Folio. I expect that both the name of the forest and the reference to a whispering rustling were inspired by this mon ...

Since Gygax left TSR the facts surrounding Greyhawk have been used rather two-dimensionally. The Pale is a good example of this, they are religious fanatics worshipping Pholtus and suddenly the entire ...

Really, what stopped him in the Greyhawk wars? It wasn't the military might of his neighbors. It was divine intervention by Rao in the form of the Flight of Fiends.

The Flight of Fiends happened, ...

I decided to place the Citadel on the coast in the Bone March before the takeover by the humanoids as a sort of prequel!

It would also work well in the Pomarj as suggested. I wouldn't mind seeing i ...

Great news and a great article.

Infestix was meant to be an über-daemon who sometimes manifested as Nerull. Juiblex was present in the books in the form of Schublox (sp?).

For some reason, the devils and the Nine Hells were very ...

While deviltry was prevalent in the Horned Society I always thought that there was no set (state) religion in the area. Rather it was a way to present the major alignment of the leaders, the populatio ...

This is really a sad turn of events. Erik Mona made sure that Greyhawk stayed in print the only way it was possible and when it seemed that sales supported that act the magazines get axed. B ...

We can all assume that Gygax, Sargent and SKR all have different views on what the Suel and the Scarlet Brotherhood is all about, what makes them tick as it were. We can either pick which version we l ...

The difference between Iuz and Zagyg is also worth considering. One was a cambion with up tp 16 cleric levels with an imprisoned Iggwilv as mother and an exiled Graz'z as a not too friendly father, i. ...

Heh, sounds like a good reason to look at the Maze of Zayene (SP?) scenario again. Kuntz' four modules are targeted at levels 9-12.

IMO there is no question about whether or not Iuz was a demi-god at the time of his imprisonment. As others have stated that is the only logical conclusion of the original material despite what later ...

I remain wary of any attempt to publish this iconic dungeon that doesn't involve either Gygax or Kuntz and fear that it must become a work of compromise. Hopefully it will at least have some decent ma ...

The nihlistic cultist is called for if he actually knows the nature of Tharizdun.

But that seems to me like DM, not NPC knowledge. Do people actually know who Tharizdun is and what will happen if ...

I just read over at Dragonsfoot that Len Lakofka originally named this deity Grell but after the advent of Fiend Folio was pushed by Gygax to rename the deity Llerg.

Interesting explanation for the ...

I strongly disagree that Keoland, or any other region, needs to be "blown apart" to remove the dull humdrum. World-shattering events that shake the nations are fun and exciting once and for all but ge ...

Great resource, very useful even though I'm not sure I agree with all the assumptions you've made.

Geez, seems like GVD is really offended by Gygax! Seems almost like a personal thing.

I might not think that having my players getting turned into acorns match my view of a perfect night of swords ...

Most characters in my campaign wax and wane in power as time passes by since they live dangerous and dynamic lives. That Mordenkainen faces the same fate is not surprising. However, I couldn't care le ...

Why not try getting an answer from Easley? If he's willing to respond the matter could be easley settled!

In my view rectifying the mistakes from the Wars/Ashes era, e.g. bringing back the Sea Princes and the Wild Coast, is not the best of solutions since it still means that you have to take them into ac ...

Well, Simpi, the problem comes from the need of a common ground when Hawkers discuss. It is quite tedious to have someone claim that Archbold rules Nyrond while others claim it's Lynwerd or a third th ...

Its maybe because i am from a diferent generation, or because i am not such a purist, but has i said, i prefer the pesent Greyhawk to the old or "original feeling" Greyhawk.

Saludos!

Thank you ...

In the RPGA LG everything must be on such an epic scale, invasions of aliens and demons, civil war, cataclysms and major upheaval! Such events can be exciting and fun but they are a pretty heavy-hand ...

Thanks for the welcome!

When I want a big, brawling, epic Greyhawk, I must look elsewhere. It is a matter of taste. Smile

So do I and then I go to the only source that matters in my campai ...

Greetings Greyhawkers!

I’ve been a long-time lurker on these boards content to soak up the good ideas floating around here for my own Greyhawk campaign(s). I haven’t exactly felt the need to expres ...