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The last time I was on the other side of a DM's Screen was back in the late 80s. ;)

I once devised an all-animal campaign that was to be set in the Suss. Alas, it's still on the back burner. [url=http://www.squidieval.com/WordPress/?page_id=6628]Nature of the Beast

Having explored Turucambi Reef, the Sinking Isle, and the Jungle of Lost Ships the party acquired the third Tome of Apotheosis and a draught of Aqua Mortis, both required to restore life to the spirit ...

In my campaign, the antagonist is Diadema the blackwater hag, an undead amalgamation comprised of the corpses of a sea hag and salt hag, and once the deathlock remains of Xaetra herself Diadema seeks ...

Suppose Tharizdun was loosed upon the Oerth? What would remain, after his wrath?

I am considering a Pathfinder/Cerulean Seas campaign but I do not wish to abandon the World of Greyhawk, so I am con ...

I would not move the night of the chat. My current chat-based game meets on Sunday and it has caused issues with my players changing schedules - I am down to three players, these days.

When I star ...

Not that Sea Serpents aren't real, in the World of Greyhawk.

In the waters between Turucambi Reef, the Sinking Isle, and the Jungle of Lost Ships lies a deepwater chasm, the Devils' Purse. Within ...

Here's one...

"Within the frigid wasteland known as the Land of Black Ice, the tale of Zander the Toymaker begins.

The sole survivor of an arctic expedition, Zander sought the council of Oron th ...

In my last game, the night hag Xaetra had converted a sunken tower into a beacon known as the Nighthouse. The cap of the undersea lighthouse resembled an octopus with its tentacles wrapping around the ...

What do we know about Sverdras Meno, aside from the fact that he once dwelt in the undersea fortress used by Drawmij and the Menowood may have been named for him?

And here is the inspiration for the fortress, the shell of the pencil urchin:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ekgyjIwtNTU/TT-yro9QP0I/AAAAAAAADpY/ESV-Qr3C2Ds/s1600/urchin-spot_web.jpg

And now I cannot get the image of the "husk globes" from Libris Mortis out of my head:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/libris_gallery/84730.jpg

Granted, I have been working on a device created ...

I'd never Why any sane human would want to actually dungeon delve, or cavern delve, is beyond my realm of comprehension. Too many ways to die in a truly alien environment.

Because spelunking is c ...

A personal favorite, the [url=http://www.showcaves.com/english/mx/caves/VillaLuz.html]Cueva de Villa Luz

and the sulphur mine of [url=http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/kawah_ijen_by_night.h ...

where are the salt gatherers?

Perhaps there is an opportunity to introduce a variant of [url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/sw/tci/tci008.htm]Salt Old-Woman? (the inspiration for my salt hags)

-For hypertension? Razz

For the Isle of Dread... you know... a reptile dysfunction.

Don't forget the possibility of underwater and extraplanar cities/towns.
You rang? ;)

Years ago I had my players come across some Jalapeno Vegepygmy with a breath weaopn a.k.a. pepper spray HeHe.

When reduced to 0 hp, do they return as ghost pepper vegepygmies? ;)

1) Wet

2) Dry

3) Moist

1) For the past five years I have run "Heirs of Turucambi", a chat-based game set beneath the surface of the Solnor Ocean and incorporating locales such as Turucambi, ...

It was that time of year, again!
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/21643_4856316656564_913300432_n.jpg

So, one has to have a login, to change the appearance back to the old (legible) style? How does one do that? To be honest, white text on a patterned background hurts my eyes.

Gah! Canonfire ate my massive reply... alas, in a nutshell, here's a blurb I wrote as a teaser for my players towards the conclusion of my "Into the Land of Black Ice" campaign.

" It begins… A ba ...

Just don't let the Syfy folks get ahold of it. I could see it now.

7:00 - BASH! (Old Timers defend their game against the Whippersnappers)
8:00 - Vegepygmy Night Terror
9:00 - Edition Wars! 4e vs ...

Any interest in the Barnacle Goose, an undersea tavern in the small settlement called Driftwood? To the southwest of Turucambi reef, Driftwood is populated mainly by malenti and other undersea outcast ...

I knew I'd find some of my old AOL rantings, in there somewhere ;)

FWIW, Trevor Kidd, Community Manager for Wizards of the Coast, was asking about Greyhawk on twitter earlier.

[grognard rant] Twitter...blarg... how can anyone follow anything is such a disjointed ...

The Myths and Legends of Magic Items, as used by Monsters within Inns and Taverns against NPCs?

I recall a similar thread [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4432]HERE

I have always described the Lost City as a place "no man may enter", which is g ...

Drawmij... Chronomancy... [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock]Water Clock !

I posted this over at EN World, in a thread about Doctor Who and D&D, but it seemed a good fit for the thread.

"Chronomancy is a major influence in my current campaign, also set in the World of ...

Built for minis and maps? Might as well dig out Squad Leader.

"Broadsides & Boarding Parties"... oh, how I miss that game!

As for baking in play-by post and chat room support into the rules, I am not sure how that helps you.
I represent the segment of the gaming population who no long have time to game. However, I do ...

This is all myth and legend, not to be read as objective fact, but the point is that I saw it as a continent that existed in the Solnor Ocean, of which the Sinking Isle was a much later remnant. The C ...

The very term sets the tone that you are in mortal conflict, that you must "crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
I prefer Spongebob:
Fred: He ...

Trust me when I say there is no quicker way to close the ears of those you want to influence at WotC by taking this stance of The Edition Warrior.

To be fair, I think I lost their ear when I said ...

...you throw the same old quote up, what does that say about you?
That quote sums up 4e, to me.

Because in the end if you and I cannot communicate with some civility and respect what is the po ...

In a nutshell, there are reasons why players did not switch from one edition to another. Those reasons will vary, from persons to person. To be honest, if WotC is trying to build an all-encompassing u ...

Find the positive. See the potential. Let go of the past. And embrace the possibilities. See you at the gaming tables.

1e...3e...5e. I expect great things, of the next edition of D&D.

That b ...

The language being used by Wotc while 4e was in development totally turned me off ever looking at the edition.

"D&D is a game about slaying horrible monsters, not a game about traipsing off thr ...

Interesting news from Apple: http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2012/01/ibooksauthor-500x312.jpg

The App allows you to start with a number of templates and then customize your book with images, v ...

Still, it is odd to set up a fantasy world campaign and have somebody be the "I wanna play a cowboy" guy, and then have the DM say "Sure, you can do that!"

A cowboy, eh...
http://3.bp.blogspot.c ...

I just knew that if I 'spoke of the devil' he'd show up!
Devils' Purse, you mean? ;) While we're at it, how about throwing in information about the Jungle of Lost Ships (in the '83 Glossography and ...

Turucambi is one of the magical locations listed in the Geography of Oerth section of the Greyhawk Adventures hardcover.

Also as found [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20030219001806/http://www.wiz ...

I tend to stick with the "no gunpowder" rule, though as a DM I would not prevent a PC from blowing themselves up trying to invent the stuff. The issue rarely comes up in my undersea game.

However, ...

A brief summary of events in my campaign: The party is now in possession of the third Tome of Apotheosis and a draught of Aqua Mortis, both required to restore life to the spirit hag Xaetra, who curre ...

I was around 14 or 15 when I was pilfering through my oldest brothers closet (youngest kids will do that, you know). He was known to go from one hobby to another in rapid succession, so one never knew ...

Eadro is here: http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Eadro

Yep. That's where I read: "Eadro has been absent from his realm for over a decade, and even his most loyal servants have no idea ...

and whatever became of [url=http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Eadro]Eadro ?

... the creature would have learned the benefit of having a lair near it (or in it)!

I have always used [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_seep]Cold Seeps as anti-magic zones. It just seemed t ...

You could always used the "Drowned One" from Greyhawk Adventures. CE free-willed 5 HD creatures, their special abilities include stench, disease, and spell use. They are "rumored to animated by the wi ...

Your playing area better be a sand table laden with aquarium terrain

You'd be surprised how inspirational [url=http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=393]Live Rock can be.

A recap of last week's session:

In the last session (11/27/11) the party remained in the depths beneath the Jungle of Lost Ships, nestled within ruins resting upon the lowest ledge of the submerged ...

I put on my squid hat and went as Dr Calamari.

I got this one, over the weekend:
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6097/6363607585_ee412ce758_z.jpg

Last year I began my Birthday Ink tradition by getting a tattoo of a weedy seadragon, a symbol of f ...

(Disclaimer: I am part owner of a beer distributorship. The "never trust a skinny chef" rule applies to beer men, as well.)

Granted, I run my weekly game in a chat room, so dealing with players bur ...

When it comes to destroying demons, do not overlook the demons' amulet:

"Demons’ Amulets: Demon lords and princes maintain their vital essences in small containers - their souls, so to speak, are t ...

In my campaign if the persons/creatures tongue has been removed then the speak with dead spell then becomes useless.

What if the corpse in question was deaf in life and thus spoke with sign languag ...

The past four years of my game have involved the PCs attempting to return a night hag to life, by means of three books known as the Tomes of Apotheosis. It has not been an easy task, as the hag was ne ...

Grey Heirs? ;)

Okay... brainstorming...

Mix a bit of undersea sculpture, such as the art of [url=http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/vicissitudes.html]Jason deCaires Taylor, with undersea memorials ...

I'm sure everyone's thought of references to "20000 Leagues Under the Sea", but I was just looking for art on the web and found some really great stuff for inspiration. You might want to check that ou ...

Didn't Jim Ward write the Chronomancy book, too?

Not that I can see...

credits
Design: Loren Coleman
Developmentand Editing:MattForbeck AdditionalAssistance:Jim Butler,AndriaHayday,
Bruce H ...

Has anyone detailed the undersea fortress of Drawmij?

So, what do we know?

"Drawmij is reputed to live in a cavernous underwater fortress beneath the Azure Sea, 150 miles south of Gradsul in Keo ...

A recap of last week's game session:

In the last session (10/16/11) the party found themselves within the rusted remains of a metal ship. The iron vessel, wedged within the Weed-Sea, was home to a ...

What have you done to murder the canon?

I dunno about murder, but I am not opposed to advanced interrogation techniques. ;)

When I started my first online game, I called my House Rules section " ...

An EN World thread in which EGG contributed, which quickly turned to puns:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/43551-origin-gnoll-again.html

For my birthday last year I got a tattoo of a weedy seadragon, one of my favorite sea critters and to me a symbol of fatherhood, as papa seahorses carry their young.

My birthday is next month. I h ...

...I surely did NOT steal perytons from the Forgotten Realms- they were always in Greyhawk. Wink

Same goes for Kara-Tur!

I agree that there's plenty in the Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, and MM2, along with various supplements from WoG itself to keep me more than busy.

Unless you omit most of the entries of air-breat ...

While we're adding abilities, imagine what a nice Stone to Flesh spell would do to tunnels shaped like intestines ;)

excellent read, there, Rasgon! It almost makes me want to run an undersea game....ummm... nm ;)

By the way, the 3.5e version of the morkoth is found in the Monster Manual II.

That's why I chose the leviathan, as it's in the same book. :) The kopru are also a beastie I could see in the compa ...

Odd... nothing in Fiendish Codex I, Nothing in Lords of Madness, nothing in Defenders of the Faith, and nothing in Stormwrack regarding the morkoth?

Granted, that gives one open license to do with ...

I devised a quicklime ooze for a game, some time ago, but I'm betting it's not even close to what you're discussing. ;)

Works for me! Heat and poisonous gasses are also known to be signs of Oerthblood smelting, if memory serves.

For inspiration, how about the http://excellentpix.com/files/funzug/imgs/misc2/sulphur_ ...

Another option is to run both groups through simultaneously, different starting areas, like a race

Capture the Flan? ;)

Run the second group as a reverse dungeon.

"Heirs of Turucambi", now a mid-level campaign, is recruiting for new blood!

PCs begin with 45,010 XP and must have a natural swim speed as well as the ability to breathe underwater without the us ...

Why is it I envision The Scarlet Brotherhood greeting one another with "Cool story, bro" ;)

As far as sayings, the subaqueous folk often call air-breathers Drylanders or "Those Above". Those who ...

I still want to write a slime/ooze/mold/fungi-oriented adventure entitled "Ooze Your Daddy?"

It is the Mystic-Mobile!

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mohTaIaZhDU]WIZARD!!

This makes me want to retool "Hagborn", which I have started twice before, as a weekly chapter-based installment. The story of the loathsome Krampus, male child of a night hag, is my multi-part hag ec ...

One from Peter Buffett: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-E--iIFyg]One More Time

Three from David Arkenstone: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHTa27u5r7Y]Below the Ocean , [url=http://www. ...

Some songs simply teleport you into other wolds: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JtQH5c1nPA]Carlsbad (David Lanz & Paul Speer)

one of my fellow characters is a Half-Orc witch and he won't tell us what the other half is. We can't pronounce his name so we all call him 'cookie' and he plays this character magnificently!

To fa ...

I think 3.0, 3.5, Pathfinder, and 4.0 are all poop in book-form.

Poop can be used an an excellent source of fuel... as can books

The Witch class from Dragon #114 - part wizard, part druid, all awesome. My night hag NPC that has been in all of my online games since 1995 was created for a 1e game as a witch/dreamer (Dragon #132 f ...

Gah! I can only choose one?!? But..but... Nautical campaigns are on there! Granted, by nautical I assumed they meant ships, pirates, and the like.

It may come as no surprises that I enjoy a bit of aquatic-themed New Age when I DM, such as [url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/aquaria-liquid-blue-transecape/id99149376]Aquaria by Diane Arkenstone ...

First Name? Daniel
Age? 45
Location? Summerfield, NC (pop. 7,000), within driving distance of Wilson's Grocery. The proprietor, Shorty, is considered by many to be the "internet of Summerfield". ...

I have the intention of writing up the entirety of the Devil's Purse from an undersea perspective, one of these days; Turucambi, The Sinking Isle, The Jungle of Lost Ships and bits about Cloudsea and ...

From what source does your quote come?

That would be from my own Grey Matter, there. ;)

So, in my opinion, you should feel free to add lakes up to 10 miles in diameter anywhere you like without violating any canon (unless you place them in a desert or the Dry Steppes... )

So a subter ...

A recap of last week's game, to tide you over, as there is no game this week.

In the last session (07/03/11) the party explored the site of a seeming cemetery; a bed of giant clams arranged conspi ...

Since we are sharing regional ecologies in story form, here's a bit I wrote back in 2000, regarding the opinaku - half-elven offspring of human weresharks and sea elves.

She had always loved the s ...

In Living Greyhawk, a town was created in the Rift Barrens of the BK named Ankheg Springs.

Does anyone else here "Ankheg Springs" and think of bottled water? ;)

Water Dwarves in the Flanaess

Deep within an abyssal trench snaking along the depths of the Solnor Ocean, the water dwarves seek solace in seclusion. A red-skinned aquatic race, water dwarves ...

Iblishi in the Flanaess

Iblishi, or sea kobolds, resemble a union of kobold and blue-dot stingray. Lacking legs, they rely upon graceful wing-flaps for movement. The tail-barb of the iblishi, high ...

Ixitxachitl in the Flanaess

Wary of Dagon’s dominance in the oceans of Oerth, Demogorgon sought to assert his influence through his vassals, the ixitxachitl. To this end he unleashed his fury over ...

You will find the nereid in Stormwrack, which was written for 3.5e:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/storm_gallery/90757.jpg

You can find more information [url=http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Nere ...