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Thomas Kelly maintains a Greyhawk Stories website which includes fan fiction here:

https://greyhawkstories.com/tales-from-the-flanaess/

DM's Note on Sources: Cear Glys, Javan Ferry, and the Ford of Marich cannot be found on Darlene's map. I used Anna B Meyer's Dungeon 117 map supplement (that map the symbols appear to indicate that ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. New Hope and Aberglain are on her maps at Post 232: Aberglain

17 March - Trail to New Ho ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. Tenwalls-on-the-Bluff is on her maps at Post 231: Tenwalls-on-the-Bluff

16 March
gleddyf ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Gord the Rogue novels.

Post 230: South from Pelyth Cove

15 March DM's note: What ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. Pelyth Cove is on her maps at Post 229: The Trail to Pelyth Cove

14 March
mage armor spel ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 228: The Temple of Hextor to the trail to Pelyth Cove

13 March
and pay for a ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 227: Preston-on-Javan to the Temple of Hextor

12 March
Northern Group - Will ...

I agree with Rasgon and have used Ehlonna as a moon goddess for the Flanaess.

My argument for this:
-traditional association between the moon cycle and fertility

I similarly use Luna for hum ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 226: When Parting was no Pleasure

11 March
(Low 52F, High 71F)
ship’s passa ...

Will this become like the Lord Of The Rings, where the narrative cuts between the different groups of heroes?
I wish, but part of the reason for the break was to sequester the characters of the playe ...

DM's notes on sources:
By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Book of Vile Darkness, but this website which draws on them was useful when considering ...

By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 224: The Lake of Rhȗn to Dersyth

4 March
(Low 41F, High 56F) some kind of reward, Mathias shrugs ...

Are they going to fight Against The Giants, since they're in the canon area for it?

At last, revealed! Well, here is the beginning of the reveal...

By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk c ...

By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 222: Plans in Motion

2 March
(Low 23F, High 35F) Distance possible to cover in a 5 hour march on a ...

DM's note: The contents of this post are known only to the player of Leezar ('Mathias'). It covers his side of the events of Post 220.

Post 221: ...and More!

1 March - City of Moradinath-Mor, ...

DM's note: Three very different themes for this post. First, the niggling details of buying and selling equipment and treasure. Then, lots of rolls and charge uses until the party becomes proficient ...

Now this is the kind of Greyhawk I like, with all the intrigues, cabals and deeper secrets that hint at something unknown and sinister...

As has been oft said before, one of the defining features o ...

DM's Note: The contents of this post are known only to the player of Leezar ('Mathias').

Post 219: Midnight Meeting
28 February

All during the long walk from the Unoerthly Cave down to the Dwa ...

DM's Note: By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used DM's note on sources: Moradinath-Mor is not on Darlene's maps, but appears on those of Anna Meyer. ...

DM's Note: By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 217: The Rocky Road to Moradinath-Mor
26 February
(1am, 2F, wind 30mph, wind chill -23F)
(2 ...

By far the best source for maps of Greyhawk comes from the work of Anna B Meyer. I used Post 216: Coming Down the Mountain
25 February , Barrier Peaks, 18,000’ elevation
rope trick, and the protect ...

At the conclusion of the module, the following characters have leveled to 7th from completion of story awards:
Babshapka - Keeping Aurora alive and all-around good play (See Post 183)
Willa - Solo d ...

Shefak's alive and well, the whole party is together again, the rampaging monsters and robots are permanently sealed, the goodly creatures have been freed, and they're off to the next adventure!
And ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

The playdate for this, our twenty-seventh and final Barrier Peaks session, was 3 December, 2019.

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My 5e campaign is currently between D1 and D2.
I have made a series of 4dF tables to randomly generate travel 'hazards' of the kind that D1 advises should be placed every mile or so. It has certainl ...

There could be marshes to both the south and west of Bale Keep, but the mists themselves come from the south because that is the direction of the coast, and the weather is dominated by moisture moving ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

Post 208: A note on some monsters

Babylonian myth, Mesoamerican myth, Cthulhu Mythos, Earthsea

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DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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The lightbulb finally went off in my head this morning: Wegwiur = Uyghur. Duh. Everything fits historically. The name has been in my face for almost 40 years, and I just made the connection today.

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DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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The Terrans were arguably just as bad with their "collecting", which was presumably for scientific purposes. It could read as a brutal deconstruction of human pretenses to 'civilization' for all our s ...

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With the climactic battle with the mind flayer, the chief villain of the module, now over, I thought ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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I'm surprised at the bad rolls you got for the security robots when they dealt with Matthias. Do they have disadvantage when dealing with someone carrying a colored card, do they have really low Insig ...

I the campaign journals section I post on a 5e game I am running in Greyhawk. At one point the party was exploring a tower in the Yeomanry formerly belonging to Nholast the Unforgiven, apprentice to ...

What a creature of habit am I. I tried to make my normal Tuesday post on the 14th and couldn't log on. Over and over I tried - and it wasn't until today that I realized they changed the anti-spambot ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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But wait, there's more! Spoilers for Rise of Tiamat ahead!

Upon their breaching the Mists the party was greatly relieved to return to Hilldale along with Rudolf von Richten. Fuine announces that ...

...say, does your party actually have a group name?

Not really. We call it "The Saltmarsh Campaign", but the party doesn't have a name. Later they are joined by a bard, and she tries to start cal ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Hopes and prayers for Shefak. Cry

Hopes and prayers indeed!

And don't feel too bad about tipping your players off on the will o' the wisp. They were probably already on edge given that almos ...

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Day 46
(7:55am; hut at 13 hrs 30 min)
With the dawn, two of Strahd's vampire spawn return - they had been out all night patrolling around the castle. He stations them on the walls in the flooded ...

Day 45 (night)
(6pm - sundown)
With Vann and the guardian working the rusty bars of the cell, they are eventually able to free themselves, at which point the others join them. Vann finds a glowing ...

Day 45 (day)
Soon after they start out, Esmerelda's wagon crosses the bridge high over the Ivlis. By 10am they come again to the crossroads, and for the first time ever they take the eastern branch, ...

Day 44
Donovich takes the children into town and to good families who want them and aren't addicted to the pastries. He also uses party funds to buy five days of rations for six people at Bildrath's ...

Day 43
The party leaves the windmill at first light. Although some of them are reluctant to take the Barovian children with them, that does not dampen the enthusiasm of Myrtle and Freek. As they cl ...

Day 42
The wand of secrets regains both its used charges at dawn. The wagon pulls away from the shore of the lake as soon as the party has broken their fast. The Guardian pushes the wheelbarrow beh ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Day 41
The party wakes at first light and sets out. They cross the Raven River and agree to Esmerelda's suggestion of taking the lesser trail north - it is longer but less traveled then the main roa ...

Day 40 (Party)
greater invisibility and tries to stay out of the combat, but the lycanthropes scent her anyway and she takes as much damage as any of the characters who are actually fighting. Afterw ...

Day 40 (Abbey of Saint Markovia)
The tale of Strahd's capture of Ireena, as later told to the party by the Martikovs. Note that this was rolled out by the DM 'off-screen'.

Strahd appears at the g ...

Day 39
Their long rest over by midnight, the party thereafter finishes exploring the temple. Helter turns the remaining poltergeists in the parallel treasure vault, but there is nothing in there oth ...

Day 38
Their long rest over at midnight, Fuine ventures up the spiral stairs of their chamber and finds a library lit by ever-burning candles. Every book she examines is blank. Timzz finds a secret ...

Day 37
The party finishes their long rest at 4:30am. With nothing else at the back of the temple on the upper level, and ignoring the rooms at the front of the temple, they decide to descend to the ...

Day 36
At midnight the party begins their long rest, finishing it at 8am.
They all level to 7th.

In the morning, the party retries the hall of the flameskulls and finds that they have not refor ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Day 35
In the morning, with everyone recovered from the exhaustion and cold (6am), they return up the mountain to the temple (arrive 8am). In the daylight, they have to assume that the wagon has bee ...

Day 34
They have not been traveling in the wagon for long in the morning when the trail takes them above the tree line and up the bare slopes of Mount Ghakis above Luna Lake. A stone wall with a por ...

Day 33
In the morning the party questions the Vistani head in the tower (using speak with dead on Ismark.)

In Vallaki, the body of Baron Vargas Vallokovich, former Burgomaster, still hangs in the ...

Day 32
The party wakens to the sound of Helter banging out the final gauntlet of Vann's armor. He puts the last piece on and greets first light of day in the armor. (now full plate, AC18). They le ...

Alright, they killed the intellect devourer!
Yes! But what do do now about Shefak? Confused

...and we're damn lucky to have you transcribing their adventures for us! Happy

Day 31
The party rests under the care of the Martikovs and Ireena in the Abbey until early afternoon. Then Timzz and Ezmerelda visit the library. Helter continues to work on Vann's armor. Fuine wo ...

Day 30
Ezmerelda steals a horse before dawn and arrives at Argynvostholt after dark, pursued by Arrigal.

The party sets out from the Abbey at first light, having already eaten the breakfast from ...

DM's Note on Sources: This post contains spoilers to module S3:Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

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Day 29
In the morning, Helter makes Vann's left grieve to finish the pair she started the night before. She now has more than half of his armor done (and he is now at AC17, or 19 with his shield). ...

Day 28
In the morning, Helter casts remove curse on Vann. They will need to wait to see whether or not that removes his night terrors.

They arrive at Krezk at 2pm, but are met outside the gates ...

Day 27
In the morning, Fuine levels to 6th. Vann has not had a rest and does not regain spells or abilities. They take a short rest in the morning while Timzz heals from the scarecrow fight. Helte ...

Day 26
In the morning, Helter casts remove curse on Fuine and Kellen (removing their lycanthropy) and also Create Food to feed all the children. Timzz' contracted lycanthropy will have to wait. Fui ...

Day 25
The party and Ismark (and Adrien and Muriel) arrive outside the stone walls of Krezk at noon. The Abbey can be seen high on the mountainside above the village. Burgomaster Dmitri Krezkov ini ...

Day 24
In the morning they are ambushed by six scarecrows on the road to the Winery, just as they leave the forest and begin to cross the open fields. Later, they arrive in the afternoon to find the ...

Day 23 (Winery)
The tale of Ludmilla's assault on the Winery, as told to the party by Adrian Martikov the next day: Round 1
Ludmilla said she would just have to leave a message for you, then - and ...

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Day 23 (party)
The party is low on rations, so Muriel is sent flying as a raven to Vallaki in the morning with the plan of buying supplies for them and then meeting them at the bridge outside of town ...

Day 22
In the morning they set out, and reach Berez by mid-day. Ignoring a strange light from across the river, they take a path leading past the ruins of peasant hovels. When they attack one scare ...

Day 21
In the morning, as Ismark spars with Vann, the Barovian tells the paladin that he is getting faster. If he continues to improve, at some point the party will not need his help any more. But ...

Day 20
In the morning, the party (with Ismark, without Ireena) returns to Yester Hill. The clouds are still thick and brooding about the hill, but today there is no lightning. The bodies of the dru ...

Day 19
The party travels to the winery. As they are about to cross the bridge over the Raven River, Fuine notices something glinting under the bridge. It is a small hand-mirror - but it shows those ...

Day 18
As the sky lightens, the mist thickens - and Timzz, on guard duty, falls asleep. Only Fuine's fey ancestry saves her from the spell. She hears the soft pad of wolf paws. When the mists clea ...

Day 17
From the base of the mountain, the party turns north and finds a Vistani camp at the Tser Pool. The men and women there say that Madam Eva has been waiting for them. She greets them each by ...

Day 16
In the morning the party returns to the Wachterhaus. Lady Fiona thanks them for rescuing Arabelle and says that it will help the town have better relations with the Vistani, as will her fair ...

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Day 15
The party (including both Ismark and Ireena both) return to Vallaki, arriving before dark. Ernst meets them at the gate and gives them the Burgomaster's riding horse as a gift from Lady Fiona ...

Now I'm wondering whether it'll be a "Call Of Cthulhu"-type encounter (meaning similar to Lovecraft's original story) or a "The Thing" (1980 film) encounter.
Well, for that you'll just have to read a ...

Day 14
The party returns to clear out the last of the blights from Yester Hill. Now knowing about the blights, they approach cautiously and are able to kite Wintersplinter until it can be destroyed ...

I was wondering if, in your Greyhawk, all of the creatures aboard the starship were aliens, or if something like the intellect devourer was native to Oerth. Did the ship crew find the intellect devour ...

Day 13
The party and Ismark sets out for Yester Hill; Ireena remains with the Martikovs at the Winery.

At Yester Hill, what is obviously the Gulthias tree is surrounded by moving needle blights, ...