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Much obliged!

Firstly, I would imagine Innspa to be heavily fortified and require a significant seige for Nyrond/Almor to topple it. Border and naval skirmishes are one thing, but neither Nyrond nor Almor would be ...

I cannot find where to change my password. Any help would be spectacular! Thanks.

I like to think of the Blue Wizard as the protector of the Vesve since times long past. It is not one individual, but rather, when the person acting as the Blue Wizard dies another takes his place.

I figure having a cleric (oddly not given a name at 5th level, Uber-Curate?) cast Cure Disease from time to time should keep a chap happily downing the suds with never a bother from the liver. That's ...

I tend to view Boccob not so much as a god who has the portfolio of magic, but rather, as magic that has been personified as a god. Hence, it is not possible to kill Boccob - for as long as magic exi ...

First Name?
Jay

Age?
35

Location?
Little Rock, AR - or as the wife and I call it The Cesspool

When you started playing D&D?
'88 or '89 my sister started dating this punk that I now ca ...

If it is a concern, both the Marklands and Iuz the Evil are post-war maps with Iuz in control of northern Furyondy.

Also note the maps are rather ugly.

It was then that I accidently came across this link.
It is a section of the map that was included in Iuz the Evil.

Pholtus is fire and brimstone evangelical preaching. Pholtus will lead the righteous to an everlasting afterlife of glory!

Cuthbert is salt of the earth. Common sense evangelism that mortals shou ...

I never liked using comeliness. For most purposes, it doesn't seem to have as much roleplaying gravitas as the other stats, and so, is not their equal. Players tended to use it as a dump stat, so ev ...

Just haven't been interested in Greyhawk for a while.....then I recently started a Hommlet campaign. Last session, PCs made a shaky alliance with Lareth to scout out the temple for him.

Good to se ...

Beory obviously . . . works using Cuthbert . . . because the saint has been granted agency she has not.

Has it ever been "sufficiently" explained as to why Cuthbert receives this special dispensati ...

My vision of Greyhawk is radically different from canon. Furthermore, my vision has radically varied over the years such that what I am doing now is nothing like what I was doing in high school - and ...

I can see the lesser gods being squabling Greek-style dieties that make compacts and things.

However, I cannot see the greater gods being concerned with such. I see the greater gods as the primal ...

Huh? What difference does it make how many he has purchased? I didn't realize there was a 3-product minimum to care! Happy

Besides, he said 'at present' - implying there have been others i ...

Otherwise, all I have -- at present -- are the '83 Boxed Set and the LGG. And, of course, the Great Library of Greyhawk Wiki! Happy

If you have only purchased 2 Greyhawk products ever, a ...

5th – Anna must do the maps. Period. Not subject to debate or discussion. Only if Anna is unavailable is any other cartographer acceptable.
This is the only grognard rule I agree with, and I agr ...

I will be perfectly happy if WotC does any of the following:

1. Ignores Greyhawk and never publishes any Greyhawk references ever again.

2. Strip mines all the good Greyhawk references for use ...

When I first started gaming, no store in my hometown carried roleplaying books. I would have to mail order them at a mom-and-pop bookstore. I had the Players Handbook and Monster Manual. A friend h ...

King Harold was able to march an entire army some 200 miles in 4 days to meet the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.

Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas covered ground at an even greater clip when pursuing ...

It seems obvious that Jeff Grubb did not worry at all about real-world physics when writing the Spelljammer boxed set. He did, however, give exact distances from Oerth for both moons and the sun. (N ...

If you follow the tenets of Spelljammer's Greyspace, the 2 moons are too far away to have much impact. As such, Oerth probably does not have tides.Well now, where would the fun be in that? Besides, ...

If you follow the tenets of Spelljammer's Greyspace, the 2 moons are too far away to have much impact. As such, Oerth probably does not have tides.

Each hex is 30 miles north to south. Each hex is somewhere around 700 square miles off the top of my head. The total area of the Flaneass approximates the total area of North America.

Depending ...

However, this idea makes me crazy. I think the idea of PCs fighting gods and doing anything other than dying very fast, or getting a geas, is ridiculous. I grant others may think otherwise and look ...

I dislike this possibility and am quite pleased that subsequent material has kept the gods aloof. But YMMV.
You should absolutely interpret and use the material in the manner you best enjoy - for Gr ...

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 ...

I'm not sure where the first conclusion comes from. I don't see the 4e core deities as at all like anything Gygax ever created, expect where the names are the same names. What are the similarities ( ...

FYI, L1 is available as a free download at the WotC site.

Thank you for listing actual changes, Rasgon. It is refreshing to see examples and arguments rather than hyperbole.

Succubi, cambions other than Iuz, lamias, and daemons are pretty minor potato mo ...

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 ...

How do you all handle the character death situation?

Holy men across the Flaneass have asked this question of their patrons since time immemorable. The answer they receive is as varied as the patr ...

True on that, Shadrach. Serves me right for just posting something without looking it up. Much like Manassas in the American Civil War, there have been several battles of Critwall.

Lady Katarina commanded the army.

Roger E. Moore has my favorite writing style among all the authors of the Greyhawk line. He is easy and pleasant to read. Paradoxically, The Adventure Begins is my least favorite development of the ...

I have placed 1 F.T. as the year Vecna conquered the Sulm Empire with his goblinoid horde, slaughtering half the Flan people and driving the rest to flee across the Flaneass. It was perhaps the darke ...

It is my understanding that, in England, a Baron was not necessarily tied to a location, but rather, held different fiefs all across the nation. Thus, you would not have the Baron of Axeport. Rather ...

Medieval armies were not terribly large. Duke William conquered England with ~10,000 soldiers when England had a population of around 2 million at the time.

Of critical importance in DnD warfare i ...

Most definitely Olidammara, for he has the most fun. Olid is a party animal yup, but for my fun (and money) I would be Norebo because he is lucky in more ways than one. Wink

Ullite games of chan ...

I've know three groups who have gone through ToEE, and they ALL found and rescued Thrommel,

My players killed Thrommel. Of course, they were all half-orcs.

Most definitely Olidammara, for he has the most fun.

Remember this was how magic will be applied to the common people

The common people are a varied lot. Each one has an individual experience with magic.

Opera House waiters bringing drinks to the ...

Chendl's broad boulevards are lined with continual light lanterns. The walls are held together with magical mortars creating protection from evil in key areas. Mages who can contribute to defense ar ...

Thank you for the responses. I like the idea of the Scarlet Brotherhood infiltrating the Silent Ones and sparking a inner power struggle among them, and so, will run with it.

What sources are you using?

The LGG states that the Silent Ones expressed disquiet over the rise of the Scarlet Brotherhood. Oerth Journal 3 is a virtually verbatim precurser of the LGG entry. ...

The Silent Ones protect the last vestiges of Ancient Suel magic. The Scarlet Brotherhood seeks to rebuild a Suel empire. Are there any connections between the two?

My compaint is simply that they place money decisions before the interest of the fan base. Sad

What does it get them?

In the 70's and 80's, the tabletop roleplaying industry was expanding. T ...

OleOneEye! Cool

Hallelujah brother! Happy

That gets no argument from me! Laughing

It cuts both ways, Mystic. Without gaming companies making hard business decisions, they would not be ...

The WotC bashing on this forum is beyond old.

Funny thing about it is, I thought the scuttlebutt blamed TSR for actively attempting to kill off the Greyhawk line. Mayhaps the business decisions of ...

I always thought one of the beauties of Greyhawk was that its elements were scattered to the four winds. I didn't learn about Tenser, Bigby, or Mordenkainen from a Greyhawk book - but from the standa ...

So, I just wondered if Delglath (or someone else) would make or should make an attempt in the World of Greyhawk, fail, and create an undead nation in the Flanaess.
I rather considered Delglath to alr ...

Sorry, I know next to nothing about mythology.

Unlike in fantasy campaigns, one's patron deity was usually determined by where one was born (mediterranean religions particularly) or one's social st ...

Sorry, I know next to nothing about mythology.

For this reason, I leave it up to the individual Gods to decide the fate of their worshipers, much like the situation in the Forgotten Realms world of Faerun.

Would people worship individual Gods? ...

*Be a worshiper of the god of the cleric your fellow party members are petitioning to bring you back.

*If you are not a worshiper of that god, but better just have preformed some sort of service t ...

I tend to think of the gods as being very polytheistic. A farmer would say prayers and give offerings to the Agricultural Gods when planting and harvesting, Berei to protect his home, Heironeous when ...

. . . For the suel this war was ideological . . .
What makes you think the Suel were being ideological rather than real politick? The Scarlet Brotherhood were hardly an important factor during the ...

The Suel-Baklune War was one of attrition over many decades. It appears the Baklunes were slowly winning. Suel houses were fleeing the basin before the Twin Cataclysms. Some Suel houses were in nea ...

Play up Tobuk (sp?) and the River Rats raiding along the river and the PCs encountered a handful of raiders. It nudged them toward Nulb. (My players hate Tobuk more than any other NPC in the adventu ...

To me, this thread epitomizes how silly a concept "Balance" is. More power to those trying to stretch it into a workable concept if they like it.

Why would you say that? The Great Wheel is used to show how belief shapes reality. But Greyhawk normally uses planar connections simply as a fantastical adventure location without worrying about ...

The "problem" with a 4e GH boils down, IMO, to two issues:

1) Forced changes to the cosmology. These are well documented, so I won't repeat them. I will note that the idea that GH would be allowe ...

The 4e DMG is the most ROLEplay oriented DMG ever produced.
Funny, I find the 4e DMG to be too gamey, what with its focus specifically upon designing encounters. As some examples, in designing a war ...

I was recently perusing an article from the article area here that referenced the current ruler of a country as the step daughter of a count. Yet the Greyhawk Gazeteer I read right after that said the ...

But the Vecna modules would be cool as well. So at our low level of 5, we're ready for Vecna Reborn but not high enough for Vecna Lives. So with the levels as they are for that what would be the recom ...

Anybody can use a potion, and even a scroll now,

My fighters used to cast scrolls all the time. Granted they were protection scrolls, but I pretty much always had a couple.

2) Return to the Keep on the Borderlands - the best intro module ever rewritten.
This is Greyhawk?

Were I to pick 7, they would be:

1. Living Greyhawk Guide
2. Marklands
3. Iuz the Evil
4. Ivid the Undying
5. Scarlet Brotherhood
6. City of Greyhawk
7. Against the Giants

Your proposal sounds great, GDV - of course I am one of those old time gamers who cares nothing about bringing others into the setting. The only thing I would want to change would be the order. Crus ...

I suppose I have to accept being the odd man out on this one. Taking the giant invasion of Geoff and Sterich as an example. Sterich is liberated, no PC involvement. However, the liberation of Geoff ...

I have also long had the house rule that lead stops magic. No teleporting, scrying, or anything as long as the room is totally encased in lead. The poor man's way to stop wizards.

My son has recently got into He Man, and yes, the short stories can almost exactly be copied over as adventures. Whoever wrote He Man had to be a gamer.

OldOneEye: Even if you do things as you just laid out, everyone's results are going to vary, so any development done off of adventures will be forced for a lot of people anyways. For instance, most ...

[quote="DwarffromNyrond"]How about Greyhawk; the Dark Ages?/quote]

Isn't this pretty much what Sargeant did with From the Ashes to be reversed by Greyhawk 98 and LGG?

A permanent Dimensional Lock on the room would eliminate the githyanki's ability to Plane Shift.

Future development of Greyhawk should involve the PCs. The biggest problem with From the Ashes and the subsequent Greyhawk 98/Living Greyhawk reset is that so many major events occurred outside the p ...

To be a little more specific, I am only looking at the height of the Great Kingdom - when it stretched from the Quaglands to Greyhawk to the Solnor. I am not that versed in Sheldomar lore, but didn't ...

Anyone have any thoughts why the Great Kingdom and Keoland never went to war for domination of the Flaneass?

I am halfway through the Keep on Shadowfell, but my group did not start in Greyhawk. We went with Nentir Vale. I now regret that choice and am going to retrofit the campaign into Greyhawk. While I ...

I would like a relaunch of Greyhawk to begin with an adventure path devoted to the Great Crusade. PCs would lead the battle against Iuz's minions, free the remainder of the Shield Lands, slaughter th ...

I've never run Liberation of Geoff. Does it work without G1–3 (if one presumes those modules were completed several years prior)? Can one go straight into "G4–6"? I always assumed it was like Retur ...

The blandness of spellcasting is definitely one of the biggest problems with 4th edition. Hopefully, later supplements will enliven things.

However, for the purposes of the Greyhawk world, the 4th ...

Which brings me to my major bleat - NPC creation in 4e. Uuuaarrggghyuk. Meaning I'm not a fan. Why cant my NPCs have a race and a proper class like they did in 3e?

They can.

It looks like a nice example of a small "race-built" galleon in the English style, and there are some references to galleons in canon.

Do you have any thoughts on what drives the construction of ga ...

Sunndi declaring itself a kingdom is entirely symbolic. In the ranks of peerage, the difference between a king and a duke is vast. While canon states nothing to the effect, I would like to think tha ...

I was looking at it from the point of view that much of the material was sitting on the shelf unused once purchased. If one spends say $100-$150 a month on average towards gaming (books, ink for the p ...

I have always found roleplaying to be a cheap hobby. Here in about a week when I pick up the 3 core books for 4e, it will cost about the same as both my wife and I gassing up our cars on the same day ...

Could the King (Thrommel III?) who made the descision to abandon Dyvers as a capital have made a similar compromise? Perhaps the Great Families would have made it a condition of unification that none ...

While it is annoying that Greyhawk no longer has a dedicated forum on the WotC boards, the truth of the matter is that there had not been much of interest posted on their Greyhawk forum in a long, lon ...

The stars may represent the Great Kingdom, Keoland, and Ferrond. Placing Ferrond as a star is propaganda to show that it is the equal of the two empires.

So what is the Greyhawk story on the drow becoming drow? What was Gary Gygax thinking when he created them?

Vault of the Drow, Gary Gygax, 1978, "Ages past, when the elvenfolk were but new to t ...

In regards to the reviewers comments about 4th edition reminding him of a collectable card game, how do you feel about this issue?

My playtesting of 4e has only consisted of running some mock battl ...

So in regards to Grazz’t as a Demon Prince posing as a sophisticated creature that eats with utensils and doesn’t need to wear a bib is quite odd to me considering the grand scheme of things of the me ...

That is a very good idea.

Furyondy = Ohio
Iuz = Quebec
Greyhawk/Dyvers = Washington DC
the Barrens = Dakotas
Pomarj = South Carolina
Southern Keoland = Louisiana
Perrenland = Idaho
Ekbir/Zie ...

Clerics need to get back to their roots and that is performing ceremonies, rituals, agriculture and weather help, exorcisms, healing and turning undead!
For a village priest, give a basic NPC access ...

I never had the Folio, so I do not know how it introduced the setting.

The 83 boxed set, in my opinion, defined the setting.

Greyhawk Wars/From the Ashes introduced massive changes. While I did ...

I find it interesting that so many people have talked of altering Greyhawk to suit 4e, rather than vice versa. New core changes, like tieflings being a common race, should be altered to suit the camp ...

The biggest problem to me is the difference in the campaign-philosophy baggage that 4E seems bound and determined to interject into every setting. The "points of light" design philosophy, specifically ...

I am with you, Rob. I have given bonus XP for completing missions or story arcs ever since I started playing the game. Quests don't really seem any different. Writing the quest on an index card see ...