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Even if you want to play a game set in before the Wars you might like to use the settlements and other details but shift the borders around and reinstate some of the ruined cities for example.

Th ...

I thought Fred Weining's work on Blackmoor (I think I have that right) for the LGG was outstanding, as were Wolfgang Bauer's Blackmore articles in Dungeon Magazine. I particularly found useful the ma ...

You are not being unfair. I agree with your feelings exactly.

I wanted to like all of the 3e Arneson Blackmoor releases and to integrate them with Greyhawk. I even went so far as to run a Black ...

Hi again Anna,

Of note, my previous post concerned the Hold of the Sea Princes Map.

Thinking my eyes might be going on me with respect to the "muddy" note I made above, I did a comparison with t ...

Hi Anna,

Wonderful work, as always. I couple of thoughts to share.

You have a label "Yan-Ti Lands of H-Thiss'Kaa." I believe it should be "Yuan -Ti," referring the the monster.

It may be en ...

Hi Anna,

Your proficiency, dedication and talent are most appreciated! Your maps continue to amaze!

I wanted to comment on two things:

1 - I really, really, really like the "Realm Maps."
...

My problem with considering them avatars is that they seem, in the case of the gibbering mouther and the polyp, to have little or nothing in common with their namesakes, and in the case of the snail, ...

Not Greyhawk, but the Sci-Fantasy RPG Skyrealms of Jorune is a great source for information/inspiration about floating islands in the sky. I use Jorune inspired material extensively IMC, particularly ...

In the Gord books (sorry I don't have an immediate page cite), Innspa is revealed to be a sort of "pun-name" concantenating "Inn" and "Spa." It is said to be a place of numerous inns, taverns and spa ...

Something I like about Greyhawk's pantheons is that instead of there being a single god of thieves or a single god of the sun (or whatever), there are multiple deities contending over the same portfol ...

Interesting reading. Happy

Thanks for the link.

The problem I've found too often with oriental D&D products is that the game is being adapted to create a more authentic experience, while at the same time the medieval European culture that most ...

I highly recommend - Corsair: The Definitive d20 Guide to Ships, from Adamant Entertainment (Author: Gareth-Michael Skarka, Price: $14.95).

It covers stats and combat rules for 20 ship types:

Ro ...

This “Greyhawk Collector’s Guide” - http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/296532-greyhawk-collectors-guide.html - is an impressive and valuable work, and of doubtless interest to everyo ...

Perhaps, Greyspace itself suggests an, if not the, best analytic approach to the question:

“In the Greyspace system, every planetoid body orbits around Oerth – and so by strict reading of the defin ...

The following three references weren’t included on Roger Moore’s old GH indexes and I’ve never heard anyone mention them in all the years since I started poking around various forums, websites, and li ...

"...certain that Oerik is the greatest of Oerth's four continents, and that four great oceans surround these lands, as do four layers of the heavens and four depths of the underworld." (emphasis mine) ...

In the D&D multiverse... gravity is a force that is fixed, and doesn't vary with mass.

Denis, aka "Maldin" (who is a scientist in real life)
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Loads of edit ...

I was tossing around some ideas for the hidden non-human history of Greyhawk. What the other beasts and humanoids were up to before the big Baklunish, Suel and Oeridarian migrations.

In my pres ...

I'm thinking of running a semi-sandbox sort of game, with themes of exploration, monster and bandit clearing, and kingdom building. . . .

So, if you were to run something like this in GH, where wo ...

If your current DM approached you with the idea of starting a new campaign set primarily beneath the surface of the sea, what would be your first reaction? Suppose the “core races” were replaced with ...

I'd start with this - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=995

Then have the glaciers retreat, leaving a colder Flanaess.

The present Flanaess is surprising ...

For me - both. I love my hardbacks for reading and running a game but PDFs make research and finding the odd reference I cannot fully recall so much easier.

I have always found the DA1 map of Oerth deeply unsatisfying. The best whole Oerth map I've seen is Chatdemon's Mystoerth map available here on Canonfire - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?nam ...

Way back when, when I was posting more regularly, I mentioned that I was putting together a 3rd Edition index of GH references, which I have mostly completed. In the process, however, I discovered so ...

Anna,

This is tremendous work! Glad to see you are back to your mapping!

Thank you!

GVD Happy

Hi there,

Just finished up one campaign and was looking through various ideas for another and checked out Anna's maps. Hadn't looked at Anna's site for awhile. AMAZING! Anna's maps wowed me all ...

I've expanded the Greyhawk's Underdark section of my website, most notably with a regional survey of the underdark of the southwestern Flanaess

WOW! This is simply brilliant work! Amazing, "Anna- ...

The Paizo version of the City of Brass seems very compatible with both the Necromancer Games version and the Al-Qadim version of the city, with a number of interesting ideas for locations that might b ...

New personal record - 3rd straight Gencon not attended. Confused

The very fact that Hasbro keeps the Greyhawk IP rights, and rips ideas from it to stick in their generic world tells me that it is still very much relevant. If it wasn't they'd flush it down the old m ...

Minor Rant Alert -

So as not to disturb the Acererak's Tyranny thread, I present this quote from that thread in a new one -

AFAIK, the Acererak serving Vecna thing only came from the Vecna grap ...

Having been playing in the World of Greyhawk since its inception as a setting, before if you count adventures set therein, I am really pleased when people take the time to redo or reimagine parts of t ...

As for the Beast, I'd vote for a Tarrasque.

That suggests those servators must have been HUGE.

Then again, the Codex itself (or its "servant") could be the Beast, as the Codex is sentient after ...

The Book of Artifacts says that "two strong men can barely lift the volume." Eldritch Wizardry included a relatively extensive excerpt from Tzoonk's writings, including the line "With me in addition w ...

IMC, Rauzes is a smoking hole of the undead. It is a "fading land" but it is specifically "fading" into the lower planes where the Blood War rages in its streets. Orcus and his undead minions orches ...

Does any one knows who is the creator god of Oerth? Or do you hane any information?

I forget the issue number off hand but one of the last run of print Dragon Magazines imported the idea of Greek T ...

Robert E. Howard gave us lotus dust in the colors of the rainbow in his stories of Conan. Michael Moorcock’s Elric could scarcely function without a virtual pharmacopeia of drugs. As I place those t ...

Lots of entitlement issues, with little to no room for bargaining.

Entitlement is not a factor. Simply put, the game has changed.

Paizo's Pathfinder has successfully pioneered an alternative ...

First, I think the center of the community here would have to shift to WotC's site. . . .
Second, it would, I think, require just about everyone to convert to 4E. . . .
Finally, I think the number ...

In other words besides a few published folk here, we are beneath their notice now. So if we at Canonfire want to influence the future of hawk we need to cross-promote the site and our own competent k ...

The design team must be genuinely open to fan input and the design itself must be substantially “open” to modification, recognizing that the design team must ultimately make choices from among competi ...

I’m a Greyhawker. And I’m a Grognard. These are the Grognard Rules for any future development of Greyhawk as a published setting.

When Greyhawkers old or young talk about future support for the ...

Well, the Sabine were raped in the context of being abducted as wives by the Romans, not in a purely sexual act limited to just the act.

True, but no one ever said that they were willing! Evil Grin

...

I think that my e-friend, Theocrat Issak, might be right about moving to Golarion. After all, Erik Mona (he of LGG fame) did it, and that carries a lot of weight.

Oh, Golarion. Sigh. Can't let th ...

Any setting that gets 4ed that doesn't make use of 4e's tropes is change just for change sake.

I apologize GVD, I'm usually pretty sharp but after several readings I don't exactly get this part. An ...

If you don't take advantage of half the new classes, races, skills, etc., why change? Any revision of the campaign would necessarily adopt many of the features of the new rules to give new players ...

So, the rape of Greyhawk (charitably, think Sabine women) is on.

Rape of the Sabine women. That was charitable? Shocked

Starring: Bill Murray as Elminster, Patrick Stewart as Mordenkainen, Joh ...

Recently, while combing through Die Vecna Die!, I found a very interesting tidbit that may identify the Paladin King of Miro (AKA Miro the Paladin-King), and the period during which he lived.

Thi ...

My biggest concern is that Wizards isn't keen enough to do it this way and will just be content with plundering GH for ideas to pad their splatbooks. And also I'm concerned they won't be open to fan ...

4e is another game, but the background material is not the game.

Oh don't say that!

The background material is the game. No one plays for the rules; they play for the story, and the story arises ...

While some of you might think that not having those things is just dandy, it means that its just that much harder to get new folks to play in our sandbox because they use those tools and are going wan ...

Next time WotC revisits Greyhawk how would you hope they did it? What would your thoughts and suggestions be to the Design Team in charge of the project?

This is an "evergreen" topic and a good ...

Well now, wait a moment.

Being pleased that Greyhawk has not been 4ed is not the same as saying "Let Greyhawk be dead forever." This is particularly true if the alternative is any kind of Greyha ...

I am happy to have been wrong about Greyhawk in 2009. I hope to continue my erroneous ways until at least 5e!!!

Of note - I looked over the Dark Sun Campaign Guide, and the Eberron Campaign Guide ...

I believe that the different syllabic breakdown would alter the supposed "roots" and thus, the etomology. Thar-iz-dun does not quite seem to equate with Tharz-du-Un.

Absolutely. If "Tharzdu'un" ...

Mort and Tharizdun GH strips. Like peanut butter and chocolate - two great tastes that taste great together! Mort wins the thread! Laughing

I don’t mean to question RJK’s veracity.

It is more a question, IMO, of objective, verifiable support (for anything) coupled with the sometimes conflicting nature of some of the stories/remembera ...

The deity in question was originally (pre-publication) known as Tharzdu'un.

Do a Google search for "'Tharzdu'un Robert J. Kuntz" and the relevant PDF will turn up. It should be called "The Dark Go ...

But how does this apply to the older (and original) form of his name: "Tharzduun"?

Do you have a source for "Tharzduun?" I went strictly with the published material.

However, there is not much ...

I have an article submission by this title in the que but I thought I would offer a preview. Not sure anyone has done this previously but what the heck. Enjoy (hopefully). Smile

Who or what, ...

I've seen this book but never really looked at it. Can someone explain what LCBarakas is about - adding a spoiler warning for those who want to be surprised - ?

I'm actually pretty surprised that I have not been able to find anyone's opinion of this module on these forums. (maybe I am just a terrible searcher)

So as my first post I just wanted to see:

...

Blackmoor comes in a number of flavors. It ties in to Greyhawk, Mystara, the Wilderlands and its own, seperate "reality."

While no two versions are identical, it is obvious that each version is re ...

Predominantly 3x but with liberal use of 1e and 2e materials, particularly magic. I've also stripped out feats and other energy sucking elements of 3x, making things simpler to prep and run (adding f ...

"...until one of the Solnor's strange and unpredictable great waves came questing into the strait and lifted the wounded vessel clear."

unpredictable great waves.... hrmm... elementals, perhaps?
...

Thank you very much Shadrach :-)

GVD might this be what you are looking for? Wink

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/296601/Onnwall_v3S_thumb.jpg

I started to write a guide to how you can use the ...

Anna,

Your Onnwal is beautiful and a work of genius!!! Congratulations on another tour de force!!!

Is there an easy way for me to edit the map to remove the Scarlet Brotherhood name and shield ...

I was reading through GVDammerung's excellent Salinmoor articles and I would like to ask on which map may I get the precise locations of Redshore and Argleburg.

I am glad you enjoyed the articles! ...

How do you alter a history by "a third"? Every third name changes? Every year out of three didn't happen? The first 60 thousand years are the same, but the last 30 thousand are different?

As I u ...

Ah. Like the gamers who are too lazy to design their own campaign setting, and instead just pull some "hacked-together-out-of-real-world-cultures" setting out of a box.

Gosh, it's so refreshing to ...

A few years ago, Kenzer & Co., publishers of Knights of the Dinner Table and the Hackmaster system, were going to publish Greyhack, a version of Greyhawk, for the Hackmaster game. The manuscript ...

. . . I just got my copy yesterday. . . . have just skimmed it so far but it appears to be, as I expected, setting neutral . . .. There is however a map of the Hommlet area with pointers to Verbobonc, ...

FWIW: RJK's full version of the City of Brass, which clocks in at ~86+K words, will be published by PPP at some point (the published version from Kenzer only includes about 1/2 of the text he wrote). ...

I think something early on or more recently could work - the inevitable catch being how it is done.

More recently, I think pre-Citadel of Eight with younger Mordy etc. running around holds lots of ...

STAR TREK MOVIE SPOILERS. STAR TEK MOVIE SPOILERS. STAR TREK MOVIE SPOILERS.

I saw the new Star Trek movie this weekend by JJ Abrams. The furor among “Trekkers” has been that it violates Star T ...

There are three full blown treatments of the City of Brass:

Al-Qadim/Secrets of the Lamp - $18 (Out of Print but readily available)
Hackmaster/Sir Robilar's City of Brass - $25 Softcover
Necroman ...

"Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae," Nimoy told Reuters. "Open your mind! Be a 'Star Trek' fan and open your mind and say, 'Where ...

IMO. Vancian magic is essential to Greyhawk and any other system of magic, while certainly doable, is a step or more away from what makes Greyhawk, Greyhawk. I say this on two accounts.

First, Van ...

Thank you Paul! I forgot about Kord(Greater God) and his many children fathered on Oerth as per Dragon Magazine #88.

Ah that Lakofka! Wink

Mort’s right! I forget about Kord – “Kord is quite ...

Do you dislike the Gord novels, wherein a simple street-urchin rose to the likes of defeating Tharizdun in two of three battles? Or perhaps, do you dislike the concept of PCs being able to rise to su ...

1st Edition AD&D GH and Godly Intervention

“In general, the greater gods are too far removed from the world to have much to do with humanity . . . These deities have been known to intercede dir ...

Anything Wotc produces for 4e that involves Greyhawk but that uses the 4e cosmology is not immediately canon unless and until Wotc reconciles/explains how the 1e/2e/3e cosmology/continuity changed to ...

The power of gods in relation to PCs as per the god's stats. In the 83 boxed set, high level PCs stood a chance of battling, say, Hextor. In 4E, high level PCs stand a chance of battling gods. Ho ...

Best be specific about gods manifesting.

A Guide to the World of Greyhawk
Gary Gygax

St. Cuthbert, p. 66 "When on the Prime Material Plane he will sometimes appear as a manure-covered yokel, a ...

At any rate, 4E gods are far more like the original Gygaxian gods than anything we have had since our esteemed steward left the helm. It will be refreshing to have the Greyhawk gods physically mani ...

It makes for a great legendary tale, and perhaps sews the seeds for the return of a supposedly dead god who never got the chance to gain a proper foothold among the races of Greyhawk.

Or an actual ...

The term "edition wars" and announcing one will disengage from a discussion so as not to engage in "edition wars" begs an obvious question.

If one says, "I dislike 4e, and all things 4e, because I ...

I don’t see too much trouble reconciling CoW with known GH history:

The Warlock, exiled from the College of Wizardry (more properly Mathghamhna, see College of Wizardry, p. 6) and “a renegade Baklu ...

When I run my campaign, it's my world, my rules. I will choose for myself what makes it to my game table.

~~Saracenus

This misses substantially the point.

What individuals do or do not do ...

Who is Gavendes?

Dargeshaad first appeared in the 2E College of Wizardry accessory (Copyright 1997). Gavendes is another name for Dargeshaad, hence “Dargeshaad/Gavendes.” See College of Wizardr ...

LOL! I had just composed a response and Rasgon beat me thoroughly well and good to the punch! Bravo! What he said!

4e explicitly and implicitly does not square with 30 plus years of Greyhawk's ...

Anything WotC produces would be/will be Canon.
I believe it is a good sign that GH related products are being considered just as I think the fact the GH is mentioned in quite a few of the new 4e ...

There is also, if you want to use/acknowledge it, the whole Greyhawk 2000 future history, which meshes with the "magic is dying" note about the future in the Glossography introduction to the 83 Box.

Just some notes on “elder gods” –

The Titan Myth (aka Cronos) has been imported into GH “canon” via the Dragon Magazine article (357?) on titans.

Many of the gods introduced into D&D for the ...

So, if you are a general that leads an army in battle, but engages in no actual combat yourself, how is xp calculated? It sounds like you get no xp for the army battle, but only accrue xp when, after ...

I strongly recommend The Free Companies supplement from Mongoose for its d20 Conan RPG. Literally everything you, or your players, need to build and run a Free Company is provided.

GVDammerung, I' ...

I strongly recommend The Free Companies supplement from Mongoose for its d20 Conan RPG. Literally everything you, or your players, need to build and run a Free Company is provided:

Codes of Conduc ...

Information on Wastri is also given in the second Greyhawk Gazetteer, the original DA2 The Temple of the Frog may also have info but I am not sure I never owned it (can be adapted at any rate ). I bel ...

Not sure if this is germane, but the Sunless Sea is featured in some 3rd Edition modules and some various Dragon articles to the point that I think it is a nearly generic term for an underground ocean ...