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Amazing. Nicely done.

I love this site, always helpful. Very useful information, thank you everybody.

Sooner or later, they're going to publish something Greyhawk related, and it's likely Greyhawk will come under the terms of the DMs Guild. I'd suggest having immense patience for that day, but it wil ...

Good stuff.

I'm curious about your ideas for the Despotrix of Hardby. In my own campaign, Hardby is under the rule of the Dominion of Greyhawk, but I'm planning a rebellion (Scarlet Brotherhood ba ...

Does anybody have information or even good speculation on the naval strengths (warships) of the various realms in the Flanaess?

A Dark Age, where chaos and the wilderness reclaimed much of the great civilizations of old. For example, the lost "Great Kingdom" is a land dominated by barbarians and humanoid tribes, with feudal l ...

I finished the storyline, one begun close to 11 years ago in real time involving multiple player characters. It ended with one of the characters acquiring the Theorpart. He promptly used one of his th ...

I'm happy to share, but beware, I'm a notorious heretic. No cow is too sacred to turn into a nice steak.

Rasgon, Mirkwood. Hmmm...I need a druid covered in bird poo and I'm all set. Smile

I ...

I forgot to mention, if somebody were to use 5e and wanted to keep "Zargon" intact in the Lost City., Fifth Edition Foes from Frog God Games has a "Tentacled Horror." Tentacles, single eye, horn, a ...

Like SirXaris, I place the adventures I run on Oerth, usually the Flanaess (assuming its not about a journey to another plane of existence). I placed the city of Mithril (Scarred Lands) on the coast o ...

An Ettercap curse. I'm going to use that, not here, though. I'm making the degenerate Cynidiceans cannibalistic. A couple of inspirations come to mind. HG Wells' The Time Machine, that horror flick wi ...

Sir Xaris,

There is a Living Greyhawk "Lost City of the Suloise" article that makes mention of a Oerth Dragon priest who claims the Oerth Dragon claimed the city because of the theft of holy relics ...

Great information Rasgon and it's helping me synthesize the various elements into a cohesive whole. I do have Labyrinth of Madness (near mint in fact).

The ziggurat was built by the Faranth in vene ...

Tharizdun/Elder Elemental God works perfectly and my overall campaign arc deals with the threat the recombined Theoparts pose to existence. My intent is to have either a Theopart or the Crystal of Ebo ...

I've scoured the net for every bit of lore I could find on the "Lost City of the Suloise." I've the general premise that the city is in ruins, party swamped in the Suss Forest. At its center is an an ...

I had concerns with the possibility of killing Iuz, but decided there's so much to the setting, so many villains that even as campaign altering as it was, it didn't end the campaign, if anything, it g ...

In my current "Greyhawk: The Dark Age" campaign, I did actually end a major storyline with the death of Iuz. It was the culmination of well, nearly an entire generation of gaming. We all have teen ag ...

Rasgon,

Good stuff. Excellent food for thought.

I suppose then, the most likely origin of his "priestly powers" prior to achieving demi-godhood was in the service to his own father, Grazz't?

Loving it. It's like a "best of" edition of D&D. Pathfinder was triumphant evolution of the 3.0 evolutionary branch. 5e has taken the rule set in a much better direction it "feels" right and p ...

Well, speaking of powers to command the undead, I'm using thread necromancy! I was browsing this thread, and another blog (can't remember which one) that was puzzling out the Iuz, Zuggtmoy, Temple of ...

I'm using Hero Lab and Realm Works. I've recently completed loading most of the Living Greyhawk information into Realm Works. I'll fine tune it as I proceed and add my own story and setting informati ...

My demons can ride a bike, chew gum and use an at will power at the same time. My Marilith demons can also text on their cells while doing all the previous mentioned tasks.

2E and beyond, demons ar ...

I've always ruled that demons can use one "at will" power in addition to their allotted melee attacks per round. It's how I interpreted the rules and more importantly, it keeps the demons fearsome in ...

'Cause I was looking for firstedition Greyhawk music. Wink

Great! Thank you!

Epic Music... wow, this is good stuff.

Anybody out there game with music? If so, what do you find suitable for Greyhawk? I tend to have an assortment of Dead Can Dance tunes.

'Twas intentional, I toyed with "raising it from the dead"...but that would have implied life rather than unlife.

I know I'm raising this thread from the grave but, I've another source on the duration. At some point in the 1st edition run, TSR published "monster cards" The cards had picture on one side and the s ...

I'm with Lanthorn, save vs. Death Magic.

I have to check out your Mana system.

However, to not depower the undead too much, I changed it so the level is drained, and on the day after fighting the undead, the saving throw is made to gain the level back. This is repeated each day ...

I've decided to employ saving throws versues Energy Drain. The idea of a character losing two levels to a vampire's touch; man that's way too rough without a saving throw.

No, self-respecting dwarf is going to be caught drinking water on the trail! Humpf!

You may also wish to familiarize yourself with the Item Saving Throws section, as a lot of people forget that you roll for those every time a character has suffered damage of some type, whether it is ...

I'm with SirXaris on this one.

Think of it this way, using a somewhat imprecise analogy; you went through school, you went through college and that's all the training you had before you started you ...

I woudn't worry about the fighter with the two-handed sword. First, at least in first edition, fighters get very little in terms of "bling" let them have their weapon specialization from Unearthed Arc ...

DeanP, what are your thoughts on said module?

I think it ties nicely into the over concept of my campaign. I love the originally three tying into the "D" series (that doesn't constitute a spoile ...

I know some folks dislike the 'new & improved" version of Against the Giants: Liberation of Geoff, but you may want to take a peak at it...

I happen to have it.

I don't think there are any hard and fast rules for it. It's more of a succession of events based on the choice of the character. For example, the character(s) start off saving a village from bandits ...

Thanks all.

The Greyhawk setting I started with is a Flanaess plunged into a post war dark age. Numerous realms collapsed, emphasizing the "isolated fief" /"points of light" concept. I also lifted ...

Well, now my oldest wants to turn his 4e campaign into a 1e campaign. The middle child, he's loving his 1st edition fighter and how important it is to have henchmen. He made his first "save or die" t ...

Wouldn't the sales of 1e influence the decision? If Wizards found strong sales in 1e, might that influence them to do Greyhawk? This of course, pure speculation, I've no idea how well 1e is selling.

Thanks all.

I'll be sure to post a few updates about the experience.

With regards to the school, yep, it's an official club at a public school. The school generally has a positive environment th ...

I've been gaming like so many other players who visit these forums for decades. I've played all the D&D editions, and yes, even 4e heresy. I became involved in 4e because of my children who joined ...

Thanks for all the replies. I had assumed it was a misprint after I posted because I found other references to the progression as a "d10."

In Unearthed Arcana, paladins were established as a subclass of the Cavalier class. Do Paladins actually gain a d12 hitdie as a subclass of the Cavalier?

Edit: I think the d12 must be a misprint on ...

Okay; I think most people seem to think that because they're white (i.e. have "pale" skin) they must relate themselves to Suel....
I picked Oeridian because I'm a light skinned Italian-American with ...

1) What human subrace(s) best describe you and why? Ex: Suel, Oeridian, etc. Mixing them is fine, of course (unless you are 100% "full blood" something).

Mostly Oeridian, there's some Suel there a ...

There is or at least was a Blood War in Fourth Edition.

WoTC could really do us a service. I was hardcore 3.5/Pathfinder. My friends were too. I started my kids on 3.5 but they had 4e going in an after school club. They loved 4e and asked me to try it, and ...

Those of you laboring to convert Against the Giants and Temple of Elemental of Evil might want to wait. WoTC indicated that they're planning to update these classics to 4e over the next year in Dungeo ...

Rasgon knocked that answer out of the park.

I placed it in the Sheldomar Valley. You've all the essential geographical features to make it work.

Do you still have any available? It's an excellent sculpt.

I've made the warforged a product of the Valley of the Mage. I've set my recent campaign a few centuries after the Greyhawk Wars and changed the results of those wars to produce more of a Greyhawk "Th ...