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It seems that you could have your players use the From the Ashes rules to determine what happens, right?

What I captured after researching dates for those modules you mentioned is:

T series (1979+): PUBLISHED GREYHAWK CAMPAIGN (OR 1220, CY 576, JR 570) (WG series) (level 1)
CY 576 folio and box (1980 ...

Proof here that Gary at one time allowed PCs to have an ability score of 19 for those into the debate about if bonuses beyond the 18 limit should be allowed.

I hadn't heard of "Church of Crom, Scientist" before!

Are you going to have a hollow Oerth?

Book 2 doesn't seem to have anything specific to Oerth or Yarth.

It occurs to me that the weird Oerth references in book 1 may have been Gary's way of fudging TSR copyright. I'll have to see if Bo ...

In Book 1, "Section 117," it references Oerth. The copyright on this book is 1985. So either in the Sagard version of Yarth people think the planet is called Oerth or in 1985 this was Oerth and late ...

Book 1, Section 32 includes "evil priest of Izu" and "cool blue light of the moon and stars"

So there's a version of Iuz which is Izu here and confirmation that there is a blue moon. This Sagard v ...

I think such anachronisms work fine in the context of a fictional world as they provide ways to differentiate our real history with the made up one. It might make sense to find a justification for ho ...

If that works for you, then I'm sure you can make it work. I was trying to play through The Ice Dragon and died again. But I keep encountering references to things that we know exist in Oerth. So h ...

The Oerth placement of the Isle of Dread as described in "Dungeon Magazine" 114 is in the Peal Sea. So maybe Yarth has two islands known as the Isle of Dread.

I bought the Sagard books a couple of years ago and just looked through all of them to see if they had maps. There is a map of the Crimson Sea which contains four islands. One of which is labeled Is ...

45 degree latitude-Alps

36 degree latitude-Strait of Gilbraltar

I think the 6.5 degree more in tilt means that the seasons are a little more extreme. I don't think it means we should adjust the ...

Those names you mentioned in the original post I think come from the "Dragon Magazine Annual #1" which looks like it an in-game type of map that doesn't have to accurate. The map from the Chainmail r ...

In part of S4, it says that "If the party chooses to leave the hall they will be stranded in the alternate dimension until they return to the hall. The DM must create a scenario if the party wishes t ...

Any idea what Yarth looks like beyond what is listed in the Sagard books? Any idea on the number continents?

Twice I've noticed that the module recommends expanding. The falling part you described sounds more like encounter D for the "Key to the Lesser Caverns." In that section which describes "The River E ...

Last night we actually got to get some real playing time in, instead of determining which pre-gens go to who and were the PC are starting.

So, I thought you all might be interested to know that the ...

OK, I get what is defined now. But I was thrown because to say you have a month of 28 days where the moon's cycles divide into a solar year exactly didn't make sense to me.

I understand that eac ...

But the box set also indicates that the solar year and lunar year are the same with the following:

The smaller moon (Celene. or The Handmaiden) goes through four cycles each year, becoming full on ...

I want to tell the players that I've started the campaign at the start of CY 576. The S4 text says it's taken 2 sen'nights to get to the start. What day is it?

The folio says there are 360 days. ...

I know the Return version of this module is set 20 years later but I didn't see where the Fane area had been built new in those 20 years. So I think it stands to reason that the Fane area can be run ...

I saw that several months ago but enjoyed watching it again.

The Realm of Dungeons & Dragons isn't Greyhawk. The cartoon does show you monsters and characters you'll recognize such as Warduke, ...

The https://davidleonard-greyhawkmusings.blogspot.com/2019/11/history-of-oerth-part-1-of-grey-elves.html page references an "Oerth Journal" quote, "exploring the South Central portion of Oerth" which ...

The http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=15428 page recommends a portal in the Spindrift Isles but I can't see this topic as having a canon source.

Sometimes I think Nyr Dyv contains a portal to Moria and the Tolkien races were trapped in Oerth and couldn't get back and here the Elves are diminished by getting smaller...but that seems to break th ...

I'm not familiar with these details but such a straight-forward question made me think that maybe the Greyhawk Wiki is working. And it is:

https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/index.php?title=S ...

I did it.

First one is a video titled "That's no moon. It's a space station. "

Second one is titled ""IT'S NOT A MOON" — A Bad Lip Reading of Star Wars."

I think Gygax did generally avoid RL stuff but "Dragon Magazine" issue 100 has a non-Gygax adventure to recover the Mace of Cuthbert from Earth of 1985.

I'm surprised you picked Finland for Blackmoor instead of the Netherlands since that appears to be the basis for the Blackmoor maps. I also like to think that Constantinople might be a good analogue ...

I don't think naval rules are setting specific but rather rules specific. I believe Original, Basic, and Advanced cover naval encounters.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/evidence-chainmail-had-material-from-dave-arneson.668205/

Platt's game was set in Middle-Earth and I think that's how Chainmail, D&d and Blackmoor got some Tolki ...

I logged:

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2016/10/gygaxian-orc-tribes.html

It just occurred to me that you might want to see if the Dangerous Journeys' Epic of Aerth's Phaeree is what you'd want to use for your dreamscape.

http://www.icculus.org/~msphil/mythus/bestiary/ph ...

I hope it helps!

"Halls of the Elven-king"

I've not used it.

I did a search and found a copy of it. That was very interesting to see the bottom of the first page mention "star signs" which I interpret to be zodiac signs. I wasn't aware of this UK publication.

I was thinking about Mentzer's placement of Oerth as Tau Ceti 4. Gygax referenced at some point that there are twelve constellations in the Oerth sky but he didn't say what those twelve are. If Oert ...

I searched for "port city north-western France" and found a page with ports in France. Brest, France seems like a good way to place Aurora, Syzygie.

I still think that the French comic uses a scal ...

Kuntz says, "he [Gary] realized that 9 rooms was the same as the number of planets in the solar system for the Original Greyhawk Campaign."

So there's a conflict in astrology between Kuntz' and Men ...

I knew about Tau Ceti but I didn't know about Poseidon. I'm kinda fascinated right now by the OD&D era setting. So there's the Sun, Poseidon, Oerth, at least one moon, Barsoom, and somewhere I'm ...

I was researching through El Raja Key and noticed a story about how a player realized a portal would that his character to Saturn and the player didn't want to risk going there. This was the OD&D ...

The map I was looking for turned up during a move a few months ago! I was so surprised! The key is with it. If you want to see what a 11 or 12 year old kid did in about 1982/1984 with a single page ...

It also works for clerics that worship a philosophy such as Law, etc.

I like how this quote:

According to Planes of Chaos (and other 1-2e sources) clerics gain 1st and 2nd level spells through their faith alone, not needing deities or other powers to grant them spell ...

1985 was copyright date for WG6

1991 was copyright date for Wars

T1 assumes the characters came from the City of Greyhawk, but that doesn't mean anything really. Aside from that, it has everything you asked for.
1st Edition--check
church (Cuthbert)--check
grove ...

Rob lists the 9 in El Raja Key product as:

The nine, from the Loosing of the "Nine" by Robilar: Celestian, Erythnul, Heironeous, Hextor, Iuz, Obad-hai, Olidammara, Ralishaz, and Trithereon or the f ...

The posters here know so much about this setting. It's a great resource for any question you might have.

I had no idea. Thanks.

When did d10 for init start? My friends used d10 for 1st Edition but the rules say d6. I like d6 for more chances of simultaneous attacks.

Sounds exciting. It's a massive effort. How did you figure out what needed changing after the initial serialized version was finished? Did you have a bunch of DMs and players giving you input or wa ...

The topography doesn't seem right to have B1 where it's designated in the Return map. It makes more sense to me that somewhere on that map is a portal to B1. I like the idea of placing B1 where Rati ...

Did the CH Moldvay modules ever establish a reference to a particular campaign setting? I'm guessing if there were Drow in them that Oerth somewhere is a good spot to place it...? Maybe the original ...

Kendall Keep is listed in Yeomanry on the maps found at:

https://ghmaps.net/

I think that's interesting because Gygax seems to have said he didn't consider it a Greyhawk-specific module yet he r ...

There are people that visit this site that have been looking at different angles of "beyond the Flaness" longer than I have that's for sure...and they may have different conclusions than me. But it's ...

It also occurred to me that different people will want to branch out in different ways in determining what they think Oerth was/is and should be in their campaigns. Some people are interested in know ...

Yeah, Joe did an awesome job coming up with the map. I re-read some of the posts and see now that he based his dimensions on the Dragon Annual map.

This is one of my favorite topics. Oerth is like a riddle because Gygax isn't around anymore to help us identify what he had in mind with a little more detail that we would use for a setting.

Th ...

HWR2 is a Hollow World module so as written the encounter is located inside the world of Mystara. One of the civilizations there is Nithia and is based on Egypt. But Nithia is on a continent where t ...

Or you might be interested in the Kingdom of Nithia module.

A map with encounter areas for that fantastical version of Egypt is available at:

https://mystara.thorfmaps.com/hw-southern-iciria-40/ ...

It seems to me that you might want to research "Gary Gygax's Necropolis (D20)."

I saved this for future use! Thanks!

1981 Expert rules seem simple to follow. There is a section called "COMBAT AT SEA" on page X64.

THE UNDERWORLD & WILDERNESS ADVENTURES booklet says, "Room "E" is a transporter, two ways, to just about anywhere the referee likes, including the center of the earth or the moon."

I found a ma ...

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http://tsr.bothgunsblazing.com/index.htm

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/

http://mageofthestripedtower.blogspot.com/

http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/

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The new disc works here on my work PC. I can't wait to find a few minutes to peek at it some more!

Ah, I see my OCR wasn't working that far through the .pdf file which is why I wasn't finding it. Thanks!

I see Dungeon 89 is November/December 2001. I don't see the references to Dockalong or Jikk or a cleric. I'm curious though about the specifics you're referring to.

If members of the Scarlet Brotherhood are monks, I was expecting to see a reference to a monastery. There's plenty of references to monks but not one reference to a monastery in The Scarlet Brotherho ...

Response same day: replacement should go out pronto

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Ah, I found a link from my order e-mail that let me send a message and I sent one just now.

I'll have to go home and see if I still have the return address. I got my DVD but it's blank. The web site doesn't have any way to contact the vendor.

I splurged and ordered El Raja Key which comes with The Sunken City.

Limited time discount...so I went for it.

https://www.threelinestudio.com/store/el-raja-key-archive/

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Is there already an underwater city adventure that would work under Nyr Dyv? The only one I know of is X7 War Rafts of Kron. That is set in sea water but that isn't a big deal.

I saw a referenc ...

There are two Egyptian-like societies covered in Mystara and Hollow World. The deities probably would need to be changed to Oerth ones.

So you might want to search for information on:
HWA2 Nightr ...

Based on that description from Frank, I know what I envision there now. I don't want to really say more until he's had a chance to produce his version.

Thanks!

The coastline Frank used is so small that it gives no real indication what the rest of the continent is shaped like. If you look at the Wilderlands map available from

https://www.acaeum.com/jg/Wi ...

Yeah, I'm wondering what the continent looks like to see if it makes sense to overlay it on the existing maps where Fireland is of if I should consider it somewhere else in the ocean which hasn't yet ...

Since you mentioned the Keep on the Borderlands, have you thought also about:

1. Lakshesherek

http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20061020a

2. Moloch (MM2 1st Ed.)
3. Pagnyr'P ...

I'm still in California and would be open to trying a game of OD&D/BX/BECMI/AD&D 1st Ed.

Thanks for the notice. The wiki can be fun!

The guy in the top right might be wearing Merlin's chrome dome from the movie "Excalibur." Some times in black and white, it's hard to tell if there's a homage going on or not. Cool stuff.

Green Dragon Inn:
http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20070802b&page=2

http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/cog-index.html

Blue Dragon Inn:
https://post-greyhawk-wars-585-cy.obsidi ...

I'm curious where the chips ended up landing.

I never used the hermit. Maybe if your players are not up to strength to fight a patrol of monsters you would have them get "lost" and stumble onto th ...

I believe it is/was the Green Dragon Inn. You can have a Blue if you want of course. Happy

I think I would let my characters find hidden treasure only when they specifically said they were looking for it...which increased the chance for wandering monsters since searching takes a turn. So y ...

I asked a long time ago the same question about the results of the Greyhawk Wars board game influencing a campaign. I don't recall anyone saying that they did that.

I liked the DragonLance movie and was hoping the second and third books would be done with the same voice actors. But so much time has passed that I'm not holding my breath.

We've touched on this topic before and Moloch from MM2 (1st Ed.) came up as a possibility.

And there's Lakshesherek too.

...and Baal, and Pagnyr'Parkus.

See the

http://www.thepiazza.org.u ...

Are you drawing on a computer with a special stylus? I'm wondering how you got the black so solid if you are using ink. If you're using ink, are you doing a pencil drawing first and tracing like the ...

At 3d6 GP, I can't afford it.

The basis of Dracula's castle is Bran. If you want to use a real map in your games, you might want to check out the links on the

http://www.carneycastle.com/Bran/index.htm

page.

Got it all. Thanks!

...Maybe putting the cursed tattoo on the neck would solve the easy curse removal problem.

There are 0 level scenarios in the GREYHAWK ADVENTURES book. I believe it gives different XP requirements than N1. I also recall that it's all optional. I think the only non-optional "rule" was for ...

I don't see that the "Next" version exists yet.

I've never signed up for facebook. I was beginning to think I was the only one who doesn't use it.