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Though I think that it's not 100% plausible that it could be SO strong as to replace local languages as much as seems implied in canon (at least 1st and 2nd, which I use), but there may be ot ...

There are two ways of looking at this:

1. Common is used primarily as a trade tongue, and its usage is like Latin in historical middle-ages, except more used and in many xcases also used as a livin ...

Hmm, ok... So I can just get some Craft or Professional-skill to my PC, then announce that he will have two years of vacation from adventuring and use his skills to slowly get enough XP to raise a lev ...

Found it. Issue 122, has two articles, "Gaming the Dark Continent" by Roger Moore and "Out of Africa" by Charles Saunders. Both pretty good articles, I may add, mostly new monsters and kickass illustr ...

I would point out also, that Btb 1st edition, there's nothing to stop you from creating a 0-level Blacksmith which fights as a 3rd level Fighter and has 20 hit points and 5 weapon proficiencies. Look ...

Didn't Roger Moore write an article about fantasy Africa in some old Dragon Magazine issue?

London in the 17th century had a sewer system, but the truth is that it was not connected to inidividual houses, rather, streets channeled sewage to certain places where it went underground, etc...
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I would add the Great Kingdom in its heyday (ie.100 to 300 or so). I would also say that most large cities should have at least a basic sewer system, a set of tunnels which connect the major drainage ...

So, adventurers who sack some old HS stronghold, put all of the evil buggers inside to the sword, and then make off with chests full of HS stamped coinage are obviously in league with evil? The FI ...

Actually, I think that the explanation is simpler. One character or two spending a few HS gold coins is normal. Those coins circulate, they are gold, they get spent. A full chest of them, though, clea ...

While quite true, much of that knowledge was "lost" during the "Dark Ages," thus the name for that period.
I don't think "lost" is the proper word. Rather, the structure of society - its capacity ...

There is canon source for HS coinage. In Saga of Old City, when Gord travels to the Bandit Kingdoms and meets Gellor, and starts the con to dupe the HS agents who are recruiting mercenaries in Stoink, ...

On the other hand, the sewers in Gygax's Yggsburg are more advanced, being connected to indoor plumbing, and the citizens could be considered more refined culturally with their wigs and billiard tab ...

Hi guys,

Would it be possible for me to receive a login for the GH Wiki?

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José de Freitas

I suppose an male orc fighter wouldn't be very terrifying if his name was Morc. "Nanu-Nanu, I'm going to eat your entrails!"

Yes, Morc is lame.... but what about Mork?!

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There is reasonable canon basis to state that the former Pomarj lords were essentially of Suloise extraction, while Slavers also provides for wild bands of tribesmen which sound as if they are Flan. T ...

I meant that IF we assume the term "Ur-Flannae" is a designation of race, then it wouldn't make sense to apply it only to wizards. For example, if everyone living in a given town is Irish, it woul ...

You are obviously right (although I could imagine here or there an exception). In addition, the Flanaess has an incredibly unique geographical identity, since the Nyr Dyv is connected to a system of r ...

Hmmmm.... if people were afraid of floods, no town would be built close to rivers. Since many are (starting with Lisbon, where I live, which is flooded on a more or less regular basis), it sort of pro ...

The Darlene map cannot be trusted regarding the exact position of cities inside hexes. For reasons not clear to anyone, all cities were moved to the center of hexes. There are a few "official" errata, ...

Assassin's Knot and Secret of Bone Hill (L1 and L2) are great lower level modules. Secret can be downloaded for free from WotC's site, at the older editions downloads area. It's supposedly set in the ...

Assassin's Knot and Secret of Bone Hill (L1 and L2) are great lower level modules. Secret can be downloaded for free from WotC's site, at the older editions downloads area. It's supposedly set in the ...

My point was that Greyhawk was consciously assembled from a variety of sources. Gary and Rob were rather vehement about not using the "official" campaign or any of their character's stats. And man ...

Although no source I would consider canon specifies or states the existence of an OG, careful reading of the Gord books, especially those from Sea of Death onwards, would seem to permit the idea of an ...

Yeah, I loved those articles. I photocopied them all and had them in a binder. I sent Ed a letter one day, and got an answer later. The next year I sent him a copy of a book on my father's painting (h ...

The FR was not developed through game play, it was developed as Ed's setting for his fantasy stories. It existed WAY before Ed started gaming and it wasn't until later that he started gaming in it. Mu ...

FR's NPCs are, from what I've seen, much more likely to act based on idealism or values of good and evil. Greyhawk's NPCs are rather more pragmatic; just because they're both of good alignment do ...

Hi Anna,

Regarding the research thing, I note that you do not include some sources that I, for instance consider as "canon". The Gord novels are a good example of that, as they include a lot of thi ...

I wanted to say simply, just in case anyone had missed it, ANNA ROCKS!!! Not only does she make the best maps, but she is also super-nice and helping. There, I said it, thanks Anna, let's keep the thr ...

I agree that Return is a crappy "greyhawk" module, but it's a good module, and a reasonable introductory campaign. It's GH only in name, to the point that the editors didn't even bother to change some ...

I am flabbergasted by the maps!!

I have a question though, how do I download the maps? I can see the jpegs, but there seems to be no right click option to save trhem. I can't get the PDFs to load.

I've always played in pre-Wars Greyhawk, because... well, because I started playing in the pre-Wars Greyhawk! My GH started in 1984, which is a good 7 or 8 years before the release of From the Ashes, ...

I've always thought of the Flanaess as containing a mix of dangerous and less dangerous areas. The central Flanaess, Keoland and parts of the Eastern Flanaess being civilized and (moderately) safe al ...

The Gord the Rogue novels provide a few more:

Doctor Prosper, he is Gord and San's tutor in the first novel, and also appears in City of Hawks. He is old and retired, and maintains a small house wi ...

I have the new Gazeteer, but I don't really use it. I have it because I collect all GH stuff in any case. But in my GH there were no Wars. I started playing it in 84, and although I bought From The As ...

I don't buy the Red Death thing. Population pretty much comes back to its previous level pretty fast, in a generation, unless the disease lingers around with regular outbreaks (as happened with the Pl ...

The problem with pop levels in GH goes way back to the 83 boxed set (or even folio) and, unfortunately, to a trained historian it sort of rankles in a way that makes "suspension of disbelief" that muc ...