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Indeed, while we won't be continuing this campaign I am sure we will get back to Greyhawk sooner rather than later.

We are planning on running a underwater campaign using the Cerulean Seas book Aeo ...

No maps for the next few updates sad to say. Lost most of them recently when we moved the room all around. This is likely going to be a short one I afraid, just trying to get back into the habit of wr ...

Late Planting - 591 CY: Vesve Forest

The Knights left Delvenbrass, and traveled through the lands controlled by the Goblins with caution. The goblins for the time being seem to have abandoned the i ...

Man oh man I got lucky with that combat. I was at 0 hit points in nothing flat. Really wish I had allowed my 'sister' to come along! hehe :P Was a fun game.

Cities are sort of a pain to do, and have them come out right. If you would like though I could take a crack at it, a loose idea of how you want districts to look like would be useful (if you want dis ...

Yeah just describing her as 'young' will be enough I think. The less we rely on hard dates the better honestly, the more dates you throw around the easier it is for mistakes to crop up.

In the midd ...

Hehe it was a fun trap, sorry I been so scarce here. I will be posting a new CJ soon enough.

I always pronounced it "EYE-ooze" never really had much issue over it.

Honestly I had much more issue over Egg of Coot than Iuz.

I think you have figured out what the mighty Philidor is Argon. A blue duck! Maybe all high level wizards are in truth ducks.

Ugh I always hated it when they would call something anti-paladins. They did that for Pathfinder for evil paladins. I like Blackguard much more. That's just me though, never really liked to use it as ...

You can sort of do that with the generic classes from Unearthed Arcana, and to some degree with Pathfinder with the alternate class features.

There are also...in the Complete Champion I think ther ...

I told her the groups that lived in Furyondy, and that the Suel were a minority. She decided to choose that as her bloodline. Now I don't imagine that she is a 'pure-blooded' Sueloise just that she te ...

I always hated that Charisma was looped together to be both good looks, and force of personality. While we never really use Comeliness per say in my games sometimes Crystaltears uses it though rarely ...

Off-topic: True story a tradition I started a few years back is there will generally be a area with a large monster (dragon, hydra, et cetera) with a dead drow armed with two magical scimitars (or mas ...

You didn't offend me Max, not that I have said anything in the thread yet. ;) I am sure that MS was just trying to stop a fire before it started.

1: Touv! Hehe no seriously I would say I have two a ...

This will be the last post for Delvenbrass! I guarantee it.

Planting - 591 CY: Delvenbrass
The Knights are awoken during the night to the sounds of battle above them, and Celeste using her magic s ...

I love the fact that the palace in the capitol of Osirion is built inside of a giant beetle.

I also love Egyptian mythology in general so I was happy when I noticed that Golarion had its own versio ...

Very well written MS! I very much enjoyed reading this.

I also know that CT has been reading your That Infamous Key, so I am sure she will read this as well.

Ah shucks thanks MS :) I hope to be around for a while too. Awesome little community on here.

Going to try to finish up Delvenbrass today, though we will see how far I get.'

Planting - 591 CY: Delvenbrass
The Knights of the Silver Dawn after defeating a series of ancient arrow traps find t ...

No CJ today, though I will be posting a new one tomorrow. Muse has been elsewhere as of late. Anyway's tune in tomorrow!

-shrugs- To each their own, if your players are enjoying it then that is awesome! :)

I don't think I could personally play in a game like that myself, but that might just be the fact that I am a ' ...

One place you might consider is the port town of Sasserine that was sort of stamped onto the setting in 3.5 with the Shackled City and Savage Tide adventure paths in Greyhawk.

Here is the players g ...

Very cool. I am still working on writing non-dungeon adventures to be honest. Its a art to some degree, one that I am far from mastering.

Hello there, and welcome!

I saw a webpage for Living Greyhawk Reborn, but if I remember correctly it looks like it hasn't really been updated in the last year or so. I'm not sure if anything is sti ...

Indeed Normandy basically was a Viking colony after a long history of raids. The Vikings even besieged Paris which lead to the destruction of the Carolingian Empire.

There was a case if I remember ...

Well I hope you enjoy your stay here, and your time with Greyhawk. Crystaltears who you will see posting things on here as well is sort of the same way as far as disliking 4th edition. I'm a fan of it ...

I don't think so Peshkauri, there are some undead in that adventure but its more about orcs and druegar than undead.

And you are right that it isn't strictly a Greyhawk adventure.

I been wracki ...

I read some of those back when they first came out. Greyhawk-light really means that they use the Greyhawk gods with little else.

At least as far as I remember.

Not to threadjack or anything here but Paul how often do you guys play that game?

MS hit the nail on the head there. While I am no expert on 1st edition I think a lot of the time the answer to most questions are "However you want to do it."

This is especially true with 1st edit ...

The ever continuing adventures of the Knights of the Silver Dawn. They now move down into the depths of Delvenbrass.

Planting - 591 CY: Delvenbrass
After a good nights sleep we find our hero's rep ...

-Pounces on Crystaltears and begins to melt- Ack! Snow cat's only weakness!

Ahem...

Seriously though I am looking forward to it, I will keep a eye out for what's coming.

That is what I meant Icarus. There are feats and what not that let you have more turning attempts.

However with Pathfinder I should have said unless you have the Turn Undead feat you are simply eit ...

Haha.

As for the other two...

2. Yes that is the case in 3.0/3.5/Pathfinder.

3. In 3.0/3.5 You can keep trying to turn over and over again. At least as far as I can tell. So not much help her ...

I agree that it is somewhat silly for Vampires not to be able to see in the dark, but then again I am coming from the sensibilities of a 3.0 player. To me undead = being able to see in the dark.

Gotcha, I will keep that in mind for when/if flying comes up. :)

I thought the single quotes would be enough to differentiate between the two but it seems not hehe :P

In any even I edited it so the only reference to knights is the Knights of the Silver Dawn.

Eh maybe it would have, but honestly you are right that DL was likely to be a winner. Really the surprise for me was Ravenloft I had thought there was more love for Planescape over Ravenloft.

I am ...

There were also the Knights of Doom but I doubt that is the sort of knightly order you are looking for :P

They also did a Knight Protector of the Great Kingdom prestige class in the Sword and Fist ...

Really? Dragonlance and Ravenloft over Planescape? I guess that means I wont have to pay attention to 4th edition (not that I was anyway's)

I guess we are just going to have to roll up our sleeves, ...

Most of this CJ will use the second story map of Delvenbrass. They do not rest in between the encounter of the Hobgoblin 'king' and the human priests up above.

Planting - 591 CY: Delvenbrass
Armed ...

As one might guess I feel fairly similar to Crystaltears, I ran a game that had a drug-user in it years before I met her. He was the worst player in the game as far as role-playing, and paying attenti ...

Welcome to the boards! We are happy to have you :) I hope you enjoy your stay.

I'm running a Greyhawk game for my girlfriend (crystaltears) currently so its cool to see that there is another couple ...

Oh I know I was just curious :) I suppose it makes sense on some level that flying creatures are better at it.

I also have most of the Geoff files if you want. :)

So are you saying by that you can't even do a double move?

If you do nothing but move (that is, if you use both of your actions in a round to move your speed), you can move double your speed.

T ...

As promised here is the next CJ today will take them through the first level of Delvenbrass, and then they will be forced to retreat back into the depths of the Vesve Forest.

Planting - 591 CY: Del ...

Going to be doing a post tomorrow for the next CJ :) Just 'took the day off' since its a holiday.

CT has just started the Great Modron March adventure series, though with a number of changes. Also ...

Ironic since wasn't it the old Greyhawk book that introduced thieves with Basic D&D?

My favorite 'classic' D&D class I think is the cleric or bard. I enjoy things in cities more than in the ...

Alright since I have a lot of things I need to do today I am going to do this CJ in my normal format. Crystal Tears is planning in the future to turn the whole thing into story format, though no telli ...

Glad that you enjoyed it!

As far as Continual Light goes something you might consider is taking a page from 3.0/3.5 in that edition Continual Flame (They decided to change the name for some reason) has a expensive component (5 ...

I have most of them. I bought a whole bunch of 1st and 2nd edition pdf's back when Wizard was selling them. I am glad I did since they are no long carrying them.

I might very well run her through s ...

I admit these are things for 3.0+ but they talk about this subject, and how things worked in 2nd edition in fact. You might glean something useful out of it, who knows.

http://www.seankreynolds.com ...

Glad to hear it! :) Just wish I could have found a answer in Pathfinder.

There isn't a page reference as far as Pathfinder is concerned since they don't really talk about it as far as I know.

However I said before it in 3.5 here:

A creature that flies can make dive ...

This question has come up more than once at this point, I really wish Paizo had kept the Movement Modes from the old Monster Manuel.

In 3.5 you could run with both Fly, and Swim. So unless you find ...

And lets be honest, anytime a player is inspired to make a new spell is a good one. In the 10 or so years I have DMed I have never had a player want to make a new spell before. I even tell the PC's at ...

Writing from Gareks perspective today, so first I thought I would give a little history for Delvenbrass.

Around -350 CY a Baklunish Mage-Priest by the name of Vendrake bel'Adiin who worshiped Al'Uz ...

Well Crystaltears just finished her adventure, and is now level 10!

However it cost her greatly, her cohort Jaken is dead. To make it worse he cannot come back! This will be explained when the CJ ' ...

Prayer in 3rd edition works like this:

You bring special favor upon yourself and your allies while bringing disfavor to your enemies. You and your each of your allies gain a +1 luck bonus on attack ...

Late Coldeven - 591 CY: Royal Highway
The PC's decide to make their way back to Chendl to sell some of the goods they found in the Tower of Black Bones. So they travel east first back to Celeste's ho ...

Aw shucks thank's for the response. Glad you liked it.

First Name: Billy

Age: 24

Location: Dallas, Texas

When you started playing D&D: 1998* (Sort of), 2001

What rules you started with: AD&D* (Sort of), Mostly 3.0

Where does your Fo ...

Your very welcome! I mined it for idea's a long time ago. I never used the idea's for anything though now that I think about it.

In fact other than one of the Slavelord adventures I have only used ...

B1 was In Search of the Unknown which was a fun little dungeon filled with lots of interesting traps, and puzzles. It was built by a wizard if I remember correctly.

One of the things that I remembe ...

I thought I would go ahead, and do a small little insight into the comings, and goings of a little priest that the party will be meeting soon. I hope you guys enjoy, and please do give constructive cr ...

I might try my hand at that soon. Really I wanted to get to the point where I am mostly caught up so I don't keep forgetting things. The Tower of Black Bones was the last major hurdle before the next ...

I am going to do my best to include the entire Tower of Black Bones adventure in one post. So this one will likely be a long post. Below is the map I used for this adventure, made by Turgenev on Drago ...

Late Readying - 591 CY: Chendl
Thankfully the road from Westwatch to Redoubt was a easy one to follow. For the time being the PC's decide to ignore the other stories they have heard, and make their w ...

Yeah I feel the same way, unless the spell says it does those things I assume that it doesn't. Then again I come from a new generation of games so my version of Dispel Magic is pretty specific on what ...

Somewhat related to this, does anyone know why they decided to give Vecna the Madness domain in 3.5? Doesn't really seem to fit him all that well, unless I am missing something.

I like the new layout of the site so far MS, and thank you for changing how the links work for the Wiki, and the comic.

Keep up the good work, and hang in there!

Welcome to Canonfire, I hope you enjoy your stay here :)

I am Crystaltears DM most of the time, and am also a 'youngling' having only played 2nd edition once with a game that my dad ran years ago. ...

CT, and I might be able be able to play in your game depending on the hours at least, though we will have to relearn 3.5 (both of us typically play Pathfinder).

@ Flint: Burning Cliffs is a Iuz Border State module it would seem. Took me a while to find it among my LG stuff. Thank you very much for those two Dungeon adventures they had very nice maps that I ha ...

My current weekend game (not the one I am doing a Campaign Journal for) is set in the nation of Blackmoor, and I am trying to find as much information as I can about this frozen land

I am curious i ...

Readying - 591 CY: The Elven Manse
The PC's make their way up from the ground level to the first floor after doing all they could do with the portal that they found on the ground level. This brings t ...

I remember listening to a podcast from...Fear the Boot I think that talked about one game where they used old Magic the Gathering cards, and the players drew five of them or what not.

They had to u ...

Well here is my current thought about it.

Currently when the faithful die they travel to under the City of Skulls as Larva similar to the Larva that crop up in the Abyss after a CE person dies. Unl ...

Glad you enjoyed it :)

As far as programs go that was a quick map I made Dundjinni, its a pretty nice map program. I don't use it all that often because typically I am the only one that sees the ma ...

Yeah the Invisible Stalker was kind of silly, but I have to say that Crystaltears was really tempted to buy the Demon Witch. That is until I told her that we would have to paint it ourselves.

A ver ...

Readying - 591 CY: Westwatch, Furyondy

The battle was joined by a small band of Sornkar orcs armed with piecemeal armor stolen from many victims. They used the favored curved blades of the orcs in ...

Ahah. Good to know, my mastery of the English language is quite lacking. Partially due to Dyslexia, and partially due to my own laziness.

I will keep that in mind for today's entry. :)

Edit: I w ...

I have to agree with you, I don't really like the layering thing. Then again at this point I have it saved as a favorite so its sort of a non-issue.

I think I might have found the adventures your talking about, I will take a look through them. Again thanks for all the help!

Do you know what year that is for the Bandit Kingdom adventures that deal with that?

That is a interesting thought the idea of a layer of the Abyss or even a demiplane being under the control of Iuz.

Maybe that is part of his future plans, to bring this demiplane or layer of the A ...

I was mostly asking because to some degree it seemed like it Iuz was sort of 'cheating' in a way if the souls end up in the City of Skulls since if you kill a worshiper of Vecna or Nurell their souls ...

I left this game somewhat open in what she can do, though it's not a true sandbox. Part of what I did is I wanted to work on my improv so I did very little work on what could be actually found in each ...

Hello everyone!

Since in my current game the PC's have managed to slay a number priests, and other worshipers of the Old One.

I am curious though if somebody could answer what happens to the sou ...

Fireseek - 591 CY: Redoubt, Furyondy

Our story begins with the death of Cedric Kalinstren, the previous Baron of Kalinstren one of the two northernmost provinces of Furyondy. For the past 13 years ...

Hello everyone,

I thought that I would post a campaign journal set in the nation of Furyondy that I run for my girlfriend during weeknights, and sometimes weekends as well. This is a solo game that ...

Thank you all for your warm welcome :) I am a bit of a wiki-nerd myself so I was happy to see there was a Greyhawk Wiki, already found quite a bit of there.

I in fact used a converted Scourge of t ...

My current game is using Pathfinder which to be honest has been my favorite version of D&D that I have played. Though I did tweak it some (the big thing I did was get rid of the boring "Ring of Pr ...

Hello there everyone!

Been lurking around Canonfire for a few months now, and I thought I would go ahead and introduce myself. I am part of the new-school D&D players so to speak. When I was yo ...