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But there is one difference I can note. OJ uses WotC’s FCP. We don’t.

Um. Exactly what does this mean?

And by "exactly", I'm asking for specific examples or areas of the Fan Content Policy tha ...

I do not have maps for Ruins of Mistmarsh, so those must have been added later. (Actually, I don't have an article file for that either, which is interesting).

Hi Sean - I can't remember details, but was there some issue with the maps in later OJ-10 pdfs? I feel like the maps have come up a few times, possibly as missing, but they were in my original pdf. Or ...

Not published, but I wrote a short bit some time ago about dog breeds in GH. Someone wrote a follow-up called The Dogs of The Great Kingdom, which I'm not going to copy here, but digging might turn it ...

Late to the party, but yes, you own your article except for the Greyhawk-specific bits. I've probably got the legalese somewhere on my hard drive, but that's it in a nutshell.

I don't understand why they decided to duplicate your version. It has nothing to do with Greyhawk. Yet it still has the download section and submission guidelines.
Yeah, that's what I don't understan ...

The blog site was transferred to me. Then was renamed to the following http://oerthjournal-canonfirechronicles.blogspot.com/ Looks like someone took the old name and created their own blog.
Yeah, I d ...

Hrm. It was hacked, although that's like the weirdest hack I've ever seen. I don't do video games. I'll clean it up tomorrow, and try to remember to check it more than once every two - three years.
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Warforged could easily be a recent development of the Greyhawk Wars, the product of research in the Great Kingdom. The few warforged that were developed were sent into the thickest and most dangerous ...

Nellisir, contacted me and hopefully soon I'll have those articles sent your way. Note anyone with adobe illustrator would be welcome. This would help speed up things a little bit. We have someone on ...

Xaris - I just sent Dennis an email. Do you have the Highfolk article/folder? I have the following: Ket, Highfolk, Shaofang, Card Box, and an LG adventure.

I want to make sure you guys have all o ...

Actually, looking at the emails it looks like Dennis Lovatt, aka Argon, might be moving forward with some OJ stuff.

I don't think there's anything happening at the moment. I think I have a few articles on hand, but they need editing, are several years old, and I don't even know if the authors are around anymore.
...

My Vampires have always required magical items to cause them harm ( Referencing, 1eDMGp213 bottom of chart, MMp99, just to base reference).

So if I interpret correctly now, somewhere during the ...

I am ever and always the . . . Mystic-Whip!

There's an image I need to burn from my imagination.

Oh boy - looking down that list I read like a bard.
LOL Seeing similarities there myself, Although I can't carry a tune in a bucket and was politely asked to "leave" band in junior high.... :shoc ...

Going off the 2e handbook...
Language: English
Read/Write English
Swimming
Charioteering (automobile)
Riding, Land-based (bicycle)
Survival (woodland)
Local History (New Hampshire)
Ancient His ...

I haven't used GIMP 2, so I can't speak to its ease of use. It is a raster-based program, like Photoshop, so it works in pixels rather than points. Inkscape is the best known free vector program ...

Argon's adventure is ready to go (unless he says differently). My own is awaiting a few pieces of art, but I still need someone to throw together a tavern map. Still working on that. We also have a ...

I like Sir Xaris's location.

The Lost Kingdoms of the Burneal Forest.

Given just the first post and the three maps, and barely reading the rest of this thread, I'd say that the ocean has rdropped (or the land risen) between the 2nd and 3rd post. Personally I like the s ...

Is Fragarach intelligent? If so, the two may have come to an agreement. The Answerer is chaotic, after all. It might decide to go along for awhile. Or Thrommel might just be winning all the ego con ...

True. But honestly, TSR's situation isn't my problem. The thread is about "What would you do?" not "What was it practical for Roger E. Moore to do?"

Sorry. I read your comment as "this is what the ...

A couple of NPCs accomplished something quickly and painlessly off-screen that should have been the result of an epic quest by the player characters.

I think it was a no-win situation for TSR/the ...

-Well, a noble isn't exactly a nobody... Laughing

He's been dead for centuries and no one remembers him or his name. Nobody.

The Greytalk list, I think, had a history of Iggwilv that had her married to a Perrenlandish noble at on point, before she summoned Graz'zt. I couldn't find a copy on my hard drive.

The idea that s ...

Put together a poll of the losers from the last few polls. Or if one entry kept reappearing, just go with that.

The Queen of Hearts carries a few around, or so I hear. Wink

Snicker-snack.

Nope. That would be from The Jabberwocky. Wink

'Twas Brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gymbo ...

The Queen of Hearts carries a few around, or so I hear. Wink

Snicker-snack.

I liek dungeons in the wilderness, personally. I've experimented with wilderness adventures, but haven't achieved something I was really happy with. That said, I've got more ideas that I'd really li ...

In 1e, a 20% chance of severing a head translates to 1 attack in 5. A high level fighter got, what two attacks per round? So you were severing your opponent's head in 2.5 rounds, on average. That's ...

I only skimmed it, but it seems like a really good idea - functional, logical, and simple. I might write it up for my own use sometime to hammer out the details.

Given the presence of Iuz, Mordenkainen, Tenser, et. al. in Greyhawk, and their frequent use as plot instigators, devices, villains, and foils in canonical adventures and material, Greyhawk's claim to ...

Ah, I found it. The Tome of Horrors, by Necromancer Games (and reprinted for Pathfinder & Swords & Wizardry by Frog God Games).

I'm sure I've seen an illustration of a male Cat Lord and a female Mouse Lord...was that 3E?

"LAtitude" makes a "LAdder.

For a re-do of "The Dragon" map, please check out Joseph Bloch's

Seen 'em. Great stuff, but Anna doesn't really tackle the Dragon map, insofar as I've seen, and Joe basically takes it as is and a ...

OK, that's about fifty-one kinds of awesome.

Someday I'm going to redo the Dragon map.

Only in the lands controled by the Scarlet brotherhood, the Horned Society, Iuz, the humanoid realms of the Pomarj and the Bone March, and some Baklunish nations (especially Ket and Ull) where it is ...

Freeday originated as a symbolic reenactment of the Oeridians rising up and achieving their freedom (and subsequently rampage across Oerik). It is a day to cast off shackles imposed on you. Domestic ...

Well ... I'll just say that I think that situation is a more likely to happen when there's a supercontinent. Our history and historical Empires is influenced by the limits of our geography.

I gue ...

REally? I don't think that they're too much different from the Great Kingdom at its height. ... or the Keoish Empire at its.
Bigger, I think. But it's also that there's more of them. The scale is ...

Ach. This isn't the thread you want, then. This is grognards and greybeards rehashing thirty years old arguments that are wholly irrelevant outside of their games. ;)

That said, however you have ...

And then retirement?
And then retirement what? After 21st level? Sure. Or keep going. Or spread the progression out so each stage is 5 levels - that takes you through 35 levels. Or if you don't ...

And this is why I've never liked the "Empire of Lynn" or anything else shown in the west. They're MASSIVE.

I don't care about the high-level NPCs, but I also don't care about coastal adventures. Niole Dra.

Kills Nellisir's character, just because. Laughing

Good luck with that.

While certain people accuse me of "punishing" players for getting their PCs killed...
Oooo...snarky. Laughing

Aw, come on now. The new character mustn't just happen to wander by with but a "Oh! Hello there! I was just passing through and heard a death scream cut abruptly short by a loud "SPLAT!' sound. I as ...

By default—and I think anyone who started playing D&D in the 1970s would agree with me—player characters begin at 1st level.
Why?

I don't see how I'm "penalizing" the player of a dead PC by o ...

I feel like I get to be the villain in this thread. Hurrah! :) (And sorry to pick on you, Prata!)

It's the same principle with high-level NPCs. When the PCs are 6th level, you throw a 9th-level ...

The other thing you could do, if it works, is to take a 'stock' NPC in your retinue and elevate him/her to "PC" status and give it to a player. Give a basic description or background, then turn that ...

A great thought, but I've never seen a player do it in 30 years of gaming.

Wow. I am so very, very, very, sorry for you. Thirty years, and no one has ever managed a heroic death? That doesn't sa ...

I'm saying that character death is meaningful and should be avoided through superior play.
So you avoid randomization and save-or-die? This might be a difference in DM philosophy; I like to encourag ...

I agree with Smillan_31. I've really moved away from xp altogether, let alone as a meaningful gauge of character accomplishment. What are you saying by giving the new character less XP?

Nellisir,
Thanks missed the s. So she was a he, that now reads as she. Happy

Later
Argon
A lot of people assume Andre is a man.

Sheesh. Skimming her entry on Wikipedia. Born in 1912, firs ...

The description of the Sea of Dust was very evocative, even if it portrays the Suel (not named as such) as a people who sailed around through the water-like dust in wind-powered sleds . . .

Confuse ...

It seems he may have inspired this approach for future writers of fantasy Sci-Fi fiction.

She.

...it really takes a lot of liberties with the material as it was later published.

I think you're making a presumption here, knowingly or not. The book was published in 1978, so it was probably w ...

Another note: Whatshisface (James M., that's it) over in Grognardia has a review of it, which is pretty tepid. I'm not sure if he wanted to like it more, or less. Either way, I think most of the com ...

I'd go with Cobb Darg being a "power" and a unique entity. Not a deity, and probably not even a quasi-deity, or hero-deity, but pretty darn close. Semi-quasi-deity? Originally human.

One interesting note: the elf, although clearly experienced in magic, doesn't ever cast spells (that I noticed). He does appear to "support" or reinforce some of the other spellcasters, however. I'd ...

OK, I slammed through the rest of it, which was not the best use of an hour+, but ce la vie. My first impression? This is possibly the most interesting "gaming" novel I've read, and I mean that in a ...

I came across a copy of Quag Keep the other day, and I'm enjoying it more than I've enjoyed any other "D&D" book in a long time. The Greyhawk (and the D&D, actually) it presents is clearly de ...

I graduate in December . . .

OMG! Shocked

I've been taking all this "duff" from . . . a teenager! Surprised

Hehehehehehehehehe! Evil Grin

Graduate school, dude. And trust me, ther ...

Oh, and Nellisir? I went ahead and bookmarked your Blog. Happy? Laughing

I am, actually. :) I'd like to get back to posting in it sometime. I graduate in December, so probably beginn ...

As for Osson, I don't recall seeing anything definitive on him. He might have retreated with his army back across the Thelly. Or, perhaps he died in battle. I'm not sure.

From Ivid the Undying (v4) ...

Orcs are chaotic evil in the blue book.

I use both kinds of orcs. 3.5 orcs are high, or mountain, orcs. They are monstrous raiders that form great hordes and devastate the countryside. The see ev ...

I've got most (all?) of these books buried somewhere in my shed. They are about 5+ yrs old.

5+? Dude, I think most of the GH novels are eligible for drivers licenses.

;)

Nellisir, you're too much sometimes! I mean that in a good/funny way. Wink

Fortunately, I only post in small doses.

I read a lot (most? all?) of the FR fiction for the first...I dunno. Five ye ...

Icarus, you have proven yourself a friend to me, in the past, and I am not interested in making you angry, but lately, you never seem to understand anything I say.

M-S ... despite my declaration of ...

Thank you. And that link was awesome.

Liking the World of Greyhawk is *not* the same as hating on the Forgotten Realms.

I honestly don't know which boxed set I bought first. It was probably ...

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of a Known World/Mystara reboot.

Dragonlance ... well, it is true that WotC hasn't done anything with DL in a decade or two ... but, they did license it to Margaret Weiss' Sovereign Stone Press...
Yup. That's exactly why I phrased ...

Nellisir ... you make a really good point there.
Although ... I think that I have to say that I am not entirely sure about the conclusion. The "Ed Greenwood Presents: Elminster's Forgotten Realms" ...

I think the term "re-birth" is significant here. They're starting over. Given the upcoming release of Ed Greenwood's FR, I suspect that's the answer, but since FR has been reborn a few times already ...

4e makes kittens and puppys cry Evil

And rude, snarky, edition sniping makes the pages in your RPG books fall out.

Nellisir,

Interesting any particular reason why you don't run a GH campaign?
Nope. Just prefer my own setting.

I came to Greyhawk via the AOL boards. It was way back in the dark ages of inter ...

I should qualify my "no". I don't mind the West being "developed" (although I reserve the right to dislike the result). At the time I wrote Lo Nakar, that was about as far west as anyone had gone. ...

Nellisir,

You never ran a game in the Greyhawk setting? Yet you still devoted much of your time to having the OJ get published. I gather you more then likely have played in the Greyhawk campaign se ...

I wanna be a grognard. :)

Application rejected due to insufficient beardage.

I like 2e, but there were so many fiddly bits I houseruled that it would have to undergo major revisions before I'd use it again RAW. I also liked 3e, but the complexity is more than I want to deal w ...

Since I've never run a game in Greyhawk, my answer has to be no.

I wrote a bit about the Lo Nakar, The Last (or Lost) City of the Suel, a while ago. There's an overview of it here on Canonfire (search for Lo Nakar). It might be something you could use to muddy th ...

Not even one power gamer lurking in our midst? Shocked

Surely there is at least one hiding, cloaked as a role-player instead... Wink

-Lanthorn
Who would admit to it? The OP makes it clea ...

The Unearthed Arcana update in Dragon magazine was issue 103. It's labelled Part 1, but I couldn't find Part 2. Cavaliers do get d10 hit dice.

[quote="Armenfrast"]
Regarding the logs, i possess 31 logs (February 1995 -> December 1997) and i think that it covers the whole life of AOL Greyhawk.
/quote]

Cool. The copy I have of #27 is ...

Have postfest submissions for a contest ever been compiled into a pdf?

Incredible work.

Good to see someone picking this up. :)

Just to clarify the points on the website, Leo DiB edited the first 5 "BoG"s, starting with Folder #3 or #4 or something. When I started, I went back and d ...

Not outside of canon, no. If WotC published a fabulous new addition to the WoG that everyone loved, then maybe. Or if Gygax had published a Lands of the Utmost West expansion, then maybe. But I don' ...

And as always, the juxtaposition of random cultures in random places makes me feel like my head is going to explode. Not your fault entirely, but it looks like someone tore up a map of Asia, threw the ...

I've only got a moment, but I like this map far, far more than any other treatment I've seen of the western Flanaess. I like it because it doesn't quote real-life as its primary text, I like it becau ...

Name: Nathan
Age: 39
Location: Ithaca, NY
When I Started Playing D&D: Complicated answer. Variously, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1991.
Rules: Started with 1e; played through 2e & 3e, stopped just b ...

That was sort of how I always think of Greyhawk.

From your linked thread on Necromancer's boards...Another thing to think about is the gravity. If Ghenrek IV was the size of Rhadmanthia alone, it would be only a quarter of the size of Earth thus mak ...

Nellisir
Your might toss your two coppers here http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4877
if the strain of scrolling becomes too much to bear.
Wink

Don't ...

I think having the ability to "double click" the header and collapse or expand the listing is sufficient to provide access to all listings.
My two pp.

Oh look, clicking on a section header closes ...