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Also consider that all the “Use standard encounter tables” results refer you back to the DMG, where only the standard “Elf” (presumably high) may be encountered.

I recall that Thiondar's Legacy, from Dungeon Magazine #30, included a history of the Grey Elves and their founding, which was a separating from the High Elves. Though it wasn't set in Greyhawk, spec ...

FWIW, here’s the climate map I created about 15 years ago for my game:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kypatxnvmtmgup9/Flanaess%20Map%20with%20Climatic%20Zones.jpg?dl=0

Coming full circle on my 13-year-old thread, the reasons above are why I placed Awad in North Province, between Bellport and Kaport Bay. It’s a human-dominated village with euroz to the north and olve ...

Hi DM Prata,

Any chance you put together all this information into a single PDF that we can host on Canonfire? The links provided in the first post are dead. And the only version of your deitybase ...

Finally, can any of you recommend a good source for modeling / creating baronial and/or manorial households? I recall an old d20 book, Magical Medieval Society, but wonder if you have something else ( ...

(As an aside, the 1e PHB doesn't list silk rope. I no longer have a 2e PHB and lack access to my 3.5e PHB, so I wonder which edition introduced silk rope and whether it listed a different cost ratio b ...

IMC, it was Archbold’s more pragmatic queen who signed off on Thrommel’s abduction. Lynwerd takes after daddy; Sewarndt takes after mommy (Odin/Thor, Frigga/Loki).

Org Nenshen or Arentol would be candidates, as well. Either would have been members of the Directing Oligarchy, which is probably close enough to being a lord. You could even have it be that the **** ...

I think we’ve established that the City of Greyhawk boxed set is based in 582 CY, just prior to the Wars, though I don’t recall how that date was fixed. If it’s correct, then I think 580 CY works for ...

I’m working on reconciling conflicting sources on the Urnst states for my campaign. Do we have enough information to pinpoint a date for the “Hall of Heroes” write-ups in Greyhawk Adventures? I’m thin ...

DMPrata, did you ever make public your spreadsheet of monks of the Flanaess (as mentioned in various canon publications)?

Or has anyone else published this kind of information online?

I've begun ...

I’ve never run the L series, though I’m quite familiar with it. I can tell you from a decade of running Call of Cthulhu that when running a mystery, you must be prepared to let the players fail.

What’s your baseline campaign date for these write-ups? Many nations change dramatically or don’t exist at all, depending on the year.

Friends, especially DMPrata and Wolfsire, I'm interested in your suggestions for Earthly languages to derive names for Seolders (Jason Farina's old term for inhabitants of the Hold of the Sea Princes) ...

How canon do you want to be, Allan? Paul Stormberg mentioned several in his “The Old Faith” article for OJ #15.

I've seen various articles and references to the numerous kings of Keoland, but is there a complete list with the dates of their reigns somewhere?

I'd appreciate any help with this anyone can provi ...

Fantastic

Arnford (Pop 3,200)(Pop 3,900)
Also Nyrond, northeast of Beetu.

Sweet.

Arndulanth (Pop 2,000)(Pop 2,300)

Western edge of the Flinty Hills. I placed it in hex Z2-68.

Independent or part of some nation?
Nyrond

Sweet.

Arndulanth (Pop 2,000)(Pop 2,300)

Western edge of the Flinty Hills. I placed it in hex Z2-68.

Adreans Landing
In Nyrond, between the Celadon and the Duntide. The town isn’t founded until after the Wars.

Cavaliers in my 1E campaign:

Major Orders
Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom Knights of Holy Shielding Knights of the Watch Order of the Hart Knights of Furyondy Knights of Veluna Knights of ...

I am still looking at Anna's Flanaess Full Map 598 CY - 2019 Edition REV1 (as hosted on the name of the road from Istivin east, and the unfortunate placement of it on the map near to an (unnamed) vill ...

The boxed set is correct with 364 days per year. The months are solar, not lunar, so Luna isn’t full on the same day each month. A sennight is a poetic week (seven nights), so your PCs arrive at the s ...

This is useful stuff, Jason. Thanks! You may want to incorporate the information from this old post on [url=http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25752&start=0&postdays=0&posto ...

I think another consideration is that the olvenfolk have their own names for the Dozenmonth of the moon, so they hold the 28-day cycle of Luna in some esteem. That seems a better fit to me for a moon ...

Luna is silver and Celene is aquamarine in color.

Monster Mythology says that Sehanine's symbol is a "full moon with a moonbow," the moonbow being a milky crescent that appears in an elf's eye when ...

Since Corellon’s symbol is a blue quarter moon and Sehanine’s a milky crescent, I associate the former with Celene and the latter with Luna.

Arrowstrand (Pop 650)
I placed Arrowstrand in hex X-54, 40 leagues east of Eastfair.

The Player’s Guide (TSR 9578) includes a chapter titled, “Adventuring Attractions in the Central Flanaess” that you might find useful.

I've resisted asking for help on this topic, but I did search this site. How does one upload images/maps into the forum?

Please and thank you.Short answer: You can’t—at least not directly. You nee ...

All good ideas, folks, and what I don’t use will serve as false rumors for the party. I recall reading something years back about an influx of fire elementals, but I can’t find my source and now am un ...

The LGG relates a fire of mysterious origin that burned the western half of the Celadon in 571 CY. Was this thread developed elsewhere, perhaps in LG? My PCs are in Nellix in 573 CY and heading into t ...

...I would propose that the Bloody Head and Rotting Eye belong to other orc dieties not detailed in Unearthed Arcana. Possibly, one or both of them might be minor clans whose shamans actually worship ...

Thanks, Allan. That’s an enticing tidbit. A quick search shows that the story continues in Russ Taylor’s URD6-08 Food for Thought. Sadly both URD3-07 and URD6-08 are holes in my collection, but I can ...

Thanks. I think UK2 & UK3 suggest that the former Duchy of Berghof in the highlands is more NG than the coastal Sea Princes. There’s also a LN monastery.

I’d add the following:

Allitur
Delleb
Nerull
Norebo
Obad-hai
Olhydra
Osprem
Pelor
Sotillion
Syrul
Xerbo
Zilchus

The AD&D Monster Manual states that orcs live 40 years. I’m unaware of an earlier source.

I know this is an extreme longshot, but here goes. I stumbled upon the following reference in URD1-08 Mired in Gosferd:
Talor-Keptal
I don’t have a complete LG Duchy of Urnst archive, but I found n ...

The Olman don't really belong in the setting. I'm not saying it's bad to put them there, just that they're not part of the original design and they don't fit in as well as other races. In the 1983 Wor ...

Quick question-are the Olman gods real-life Mesoamerican gods, or were they actually created by the module writers? I'm not a fan of using real-life deities in Greyhawk. Canon isn't even consistent on ...

[url=https://greyhawkonline.com/riveradventure/]The Great Flanaess River Adventure

For a pop culture analogy, consider the MCU depiction of Asgardians. Early Scandinavians worshiped them as gods, but the more enlightened recognize that they’re just powerful aliens.

Cool! Thanks for sharing, Allan!

The City of Greyhawk boxed set alludes to games being played in the Arena, but sadly offers no specifics beyond rowing races and mock sea battles.

Yeah... Don’t all rush out to buy this series. I’d hoped for a Nyrond travelogue whence I could glean some place names. All I picked out of the background was “Bugun Pub” in Rel Mord from issue #1 and ...

There's a thread on the comic here: http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?p=130465

And a blog post here: https://kuronons.blogspot.com/2018/07/d-comics-history-part-16-black-white-k.htmlThan ...

Does anyone know if these comics set in Nyrond contain any useful canon tidbits? Are they worth tracking down?

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/dungeons-dragons-black-white/4050-33158/

https://sta ...

Cool. I never knew the Thrommel connection and I like it. Didn't Gygax also say the SB was behind Thrommel? Is this another one of the answers he flip-flopped on over the years?
See Paul Stormberg’s ...

Nyrond is "grey-ish" post-Gyagx, but even in a 591CY campaign, it was a beacon of good, strength, and paladins just ten years ago.I don’t want to stray too far off topic, but Nyrond is listed as Lawfu ...

I read through it thinking, “Hmm... a morally greyish kingdom that lies to the PCs about the nature of the threat... a tomb in nearby hills... the Royal Family Archibald...” I wondered if maybe Rob ha ...

Is it just me, or does the background for RJK’s Cairn of the Skeleton King just scream Nyrond?

Surprisingly, I couldn’t find anything in any of the LG Veluna materials in my archive (though it’s hardly complete).

I find a few missing from both lists. Akwamon: Len Lakofka’s lost deity, the son of Xerbo and Osprem Apocatequil and Xilonen: mentioned in Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan Baalzephon/“Baalzy”: the false de ...

I’ve long thought the city of Topaline from “Beyond the Glittering Veil” (DUNGEON #31) should be set in the Plane of Shadow, rather than the Quasi-elemental Plane of Vacuum. The Prime village of Silve ...

Again, I could be totally off base. I just recall that the Trigee contracts for Yggsburgh were tied to sales figures. If TSR never formally published Ivid for sale, then a release by Hasbro now could ...

Very cool. Yeah if I could have one Greyhawk thing done, its an official printing of Ivid.

I have been wishing for the same thing (as I'm sure many are). What would it take? I assume Wizard ...

Here’s [url=https://post-greyhawk-wars-585-cy.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/mitrik]Mitrik.

While hoping to avert an edition war, I’d like to suggest delicately that part of the contention over From the Ashes mirrors that of the change in play styles from 1E to 2E. In the late ’70s and early ...

Heironeans observe Fortnight’s Feast in midsummer, celebrating the victory of the Heironean armies of Aerdy over Nyrondal cavalry in the Battle of a Fortnight’s Length. How do you think this festival ...

I don’t know exactly where Erypt is in relation to Sterich, but according to the Glossography, every degree of longitude (~70 miles) changes the time of sunrise and sunset by four minutes (assuming th ...

According to the Glossography, Luna is full and Celene is new on the 11th of Readying. I don’t know where you see otherwise.

Idee: The Ideeans had a very laid-back, "live and let live" culture that was very tolerant and open to different ideas and ways of life. However, they also combined this with a wariness and skill at s ...

The only canon I can cite is the coin of Almor, which is described in Greyhawk Adventures as a “normal-looking platinum coin”. That means Almor minted platinum coins.

FWIW, I placed my version of that monastery (the DMG sample dungeon) in southern Sunndi near the Vast Swamp. Since there’s some evidence that the DMG sample dungeon was a prototype for the TOEE moatho ...

“Maze of the Morkoth” in DUNGEON #70 features a ruined undersea city. “No Stone Unturned” in DUNGEON #72 features partially flooded ruins beneath a surface city.

You’re looking for the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer.

However no sign yet of the Monastery of the Silent Valley. Anyone heard of that before?You could try Anna’s Facebook group.

You 're right DMPRATA. But I was not aware of the existence of this module as well as the fact you have participated in the writing of it.
I found what I quoted in another unsigned source some yea ...

Village of Intasinudur (County of Esparithen)
Gray Olve (400), Humans (200). The gray olven sorceress Lady Eyanata Esparithen nominally rules the olve of the Rieuwood from this settlement. The olven ...

Intasinudur and Si’Lanu come from the now-defunct Living Greyhawk Sunndi site. You may be able to glean some information from the [url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/sunndi.org]Wayback Machine. I’m uns ...

"Tammeraut's Fate" in DUNGEON #106 gives us House Tammeraut.

Grand Duke Owen I of Geoff (F 13 / I 15)
Ilkhan Cligir of the Chakyik (I 3 / F 11)
Tarkhan Bargru of the Wegwiur (I 5 / F 12)

Isn't there an illusionist lich in Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhaw ...

According to the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, bands of grugach are found "... in deep forests like the Hornwood, Gnarley Forest, Celadon Forest, or Grandwood". From the Ashes mentions Varnifane in the W ...

I think The Shattered Circle (loosely tied to Greyhawk with ancient Suel migrants) contained some Faerie references.

See [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8555]this announcement.

DUNGEON #31, "Beyond the Glittering Veil" (a ruined city on the Plane of Shadow)
DUNGEON #215, "The Last Slave Lord" (a ruined monastery in the mountains)
UK3 The Gauntlet (a ruined castle in the mo ...

For your consideration:
[url=http://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/Demonic.pdf]The Demonic Pantheon
[url=http://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/Diabolic.pdf]The Diabolic Pantheon

Besides referencing DMPrata's work, I have used Monster Mythology, and all pertinent sourcebooks specific to Greyhawk, such as From the Ashes and the original boxed set, to draw forth my own conclusio ...

As a sidenote, I know that DMPrata has a pantheonic list for the Devils, but I cannot seem to find it...any help would be MUCH appreciated for me to access that list/site!

-Lanthorn
All of my Deit ...

DMPrata, your link is busted. Confused

Try it without the period: http://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/Demonic.pdf
Fixed. Thanks, Allan.

True that, DMPrata. So maybe I shouldn't discount Demogorgon entirely.

Wondering, as a follow-up, if Grazzt has any clerics?

Did Orcus?

-Lanthorn
In my opinion, yes; they all do. See here: ...

Demogorgon has few, if any, human followers, according to Monster Mythology, even though he might be willing to have a partnership with reptilians such as lizard men and a vampire lizard king mage.
...

Why not Orcus? I don't think any Greyhawk source states that he was killed. If not him, how about Lolth? She already has one human cleric in Lareth. Why not a few more? I also don't see a problem with ...

The only issue I have with Anazander is his temporal placement. As a Suel paladin of an Oeridian deity, he must originate from a time and place when the races comingled. (Keoland would be the earliest ...

WG8 Fate of Istus gave us the Iron Fist Guild in Nyrond, FWIW.

I can tell you what the LG Veluna Triad did; take it for what it's worth. Veluna is divided into eight dioceses, each with a bishop of Rao. That's the College of Bishops.

According to the Glossography, the Flanaess maps cover 970 leagues north to south. I don't know offhand where to find the east to west distance (though you could always count hexes).

Return to the Tomb of Horrors is one of my favorite adventures. It's insanely tough and challenging to even higher level groups. Speaking of Orcus, I've been thinking about how different his powers ...

Thanks for compiling that list, rasgon. I can add to it, using the According to the '83 boxed set:

Almor: crossbow, spear, or polearm (fauchard or glaive most commonly). Longbow or battleaxe in the ...

Here's what I made for my campaign:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/is3x6lps3sp0f1u/Oerth%20Calendar.pdf?dl=0

Dragonsfoot's Footprints #11 includes a brief side-trek adventure called "The Hidden Shrine of Tharizdun" by Alphonso Warden, which can be incorporated into a larger dungeon complex.

Why not both?Because they're rivals. It's unlikely any but the most pragmatic would honor both Ehlonna and Obad-hai, for instance.

Gary Gygax's story "The Five Dragon Bowl" in Night Arrant features a henchman of Tenser named Poztif, a "humorless and sober" cleric of Pholtus.Interesting... Given that reference is straight from the ...

Just to stir the pot here, when comparing 1E characters, one must compare XP totals, not class levels. Curley Greenleaf as a Druid/Ranger 10/8 would have about 300,000 total XP. A bard with equal XP w ...

I think the strictly BTB reading would be that no one earns XP unless someone claims the item. That said, I'd probably split the XP award (240 XP per charge remaining) between the two clerics. PCs who ...

I'm running my adaptation of Palace of the Silver PrincessOerth Journal #16.

I wish I'd archived it, but Len Lakofka wrote a Suel Priest Spheres document that was hosted on the old Codex of Greyhawk. I checked, but archive.org doesn't have that page backed up. Reconstructing f ...

The High Priest of Kord in Dyvers is the half-orc Remick Longtooth (barbarian 1 / cleric 16)

Now that's interesting! If anyone might know about Nazarn, I say it would be him.

Do you have a sourc ...

There isn't much in canon. The antagonists in L2 The Assassin's Knot appear to be Lawful Evil Question

Kord worshipers, led by a cleric 5 / assassin 6. If you include Living Greyhawk, however, you'll find ...

One of the founders of our hobby and one of the most unsung contributors to Dungeons & Dragons, Len Lakofka has passed away at the age of 76. Along with the many adventures, classes, spells, and rules he created, Len was also father of the Suel in Greyhawk, designer of their gods, and namesake of the Lendore Isles. The value of his work goes without saying, but his presence will be sorely missed. The adventures of Leomund go on.

Len Lakofka 1944-2020 [DISCUSS]