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I do not have Heironeous and Hextor as twins, but half-brothers.

Heironeous is the legitimate son of Arnd of Tdon and Johydee of the Mask.
Hextor is his illegitimate half-brother, the son of Arnd ...

This is the wordpress site, the one that hosts The Grey Grimoire.

I am not particularly tech savvy, and do not have a site of my own.

There should be a "Download" button below the preview.
Right above the "Share This".

A new TNC release is now available!

"Human Cultures and Population Origins of the Flanaess" looks at the Human racial stocks and their distributions throughout the Flanaess in a manner that reflect ...

To the best of my knowledge and limits of my web searching, the titles:
Rhelt/Rhalta
Fasstal
Plar
Are completely made up and unique to Greyhawk.
No search I have ever done for them has returned a ...

Samwise,

Your recent post regarding Keoland's capital sparked a need for more info on my part.

1. Is there any specificity on who the Keoghs are and how their power influences governing?

The ...

The Grey Grimoire Summer 2024 is here!

We are pleased to bring you the third issue of The Grey Grimoire.

We continue to get an outstanding line-up of authors and articles.

Leading off we have ...

Also keep in mind notes on population from WoG page 18:
“ Population: This accounts for humans only, the normal citizens who make up the bulk of a nation. Mercenaries, lawless groups, semi-independen ...

I prefer the world as humanocentric as written, with demihumans fairly rare and limited to certain fringe areas. I do not think every village, hamlet, and thorp needs its mandatory quota of demihumans ...

Ever since the LGG came out, some people have expressed issues with the population numbers of the demihumans over and above any general complaints about too few people. While I have a bit of a talent ...

From an LGG perspective, Keoland is divided between three power groups: the Suel House Rhola, the Suel House Neheli, and the Keogh Clans. Except for one early and the current king, all of the kings of ...

The Fals Gap is in Bissel. It is the passage between the Yatils and the Lortmils and Barrier Peaks. That makes it the passage between east (Aerdy) and west (Baklunish lands), and functionally between ...

Visions of Greyhawk Vol. III is here!

In this issue, we have exciting articles by new contributors such as Curtis Cable and Michael Mossbarger, who both decided to focus on the topic of Heironeous ...

No idea.
Gary made that map, and while I put in my 2 cents about the middle Velverdyva, the extent of Tycheron is his idea.
I will let him know someone is asking.

It's by Gary Holian and Sam Weiss; it's very new and very, very interesting if, like me, you prefer a Sheldomar-based Vecna to the Flanaess-wide one articulated in OJ#1.

It is new, but it was s ...

An excellent and quite fair review.
One point I would like to highlight for additional commentary is this:

Some of these issues were addressed in later products, but from what we have in SotS, tha ...

Regarding getting captured:

I would delete the auto-loss at the end of A3 and give the PCs a chance to win. Auto-loss is all well and good for tournament play, but not very suitable for a campaign. ...

I noted the issue of the drow in the A series if you follow it with the GDQ supermodule - it takes away the shock reveal in G3.
Of course, nowadays, drow are a dime a dozen.

l do not know his codes.
For those not written out:

Module code (for which I just noticed an error)
Boxed the Gold Boxed Set
FtA From the Ashes
PGtG Player's Guide to Greyhawk
DDG Deities &am ...

A question was asked on the Canonfire Discord and several people answered. I thought the subject matter was interesting enough to be collected and saved.

Matteus (Matthew Fenn, Greycast) asked:
He ...

This is an expansion from my Intro to Greyhawk. It provides brief and simplified summaries of the realms of the Flanaess, around or after the 591 CY starting date of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Lon ...

The second appendix, list of archfiends, celestial paragons, slaad lords, and Primus is now up.
Hopefully a grand combined file will be available in a week.
Yay!

https://thegreygrimoire1.wordpres ...

Not really. The Dreadwood Olve may have had a base at Gradsul depending on how much they need to deal with the Aquatic Olve. They are still subject to the Gray Olve of Celene.
Where I have reconsider ...

Glossography of the Flanaess – Peoples and Cultures and am going to post comments and questions here rather than only in the Greytalk Discord channel.

Interesting! So each of the four human "races" ...

I had forgotten to check UK1 for relevant references.
There is definitely Flan-Olve intermarriage before the Migrations, I consider it part of the Flan having copper and bronze branches.

As for th ...

Initial responses to Samwise’s Cosmogony 2.4

First, it’s a masterful synthesis, accounting for (I think) almost every deity that Gygax, Lakofka, Moore, Sargent, Holian, Mona, and others created in ...

T1-4 does have its flaws.

The lower level and elemental nodes seem very thrown together and played out as a pretty dull, brutal slog after the brutal slog of the third level. And then of course the ...

S1-4 did something of the same, while omitting most of S3, and B1-9, but ISTR that they were even more so hatched jobs.
Allan.

I am not sure "hatchet job" is sufficient to describe B1-9.
B1 is ...

Berghof is part of the Sea Princes.
It was independent way back when, but it has been part of that nation since the Sea Princes were founded.

It is not.
I collected the dates from my Ancient History project and posted them as we expected to cover the Ur-Flan on that show.
I am in the process of doing some revisions to my Ancient History, ...

For the show on the Ur-Flan tonight, I prepared this short summary of who and when the various tyrants and countries existed.

Ur-Flan and Olve/Dwurrow Summary

All dates are CY and most are rough ...

The first part of Night Below takes place aboveground and then transitions to the underground.

In a frenzy of editing, part 2 and the first appendix are now available.

https://thegreygrimoire1.wordpress.com/2024/05/17/behold-sams-cosmogony-has-arrived/

The Cosmogony is my creation myth fo ...

The first installment of three in the second portion of The New Canon is now available.
In this i look at the Outer Planes, their inhabitants, and the powers of Oerth that have their realms on them. ...

A bit of absurdity:

In the Flanaess, Incabulos is responsible for the Dice Police as they are truly an evil sending.

The specific Daemon Lord responsible for them is Custodesaleae, Daemon Lord ...

Following on from my intro to Greyhawk, I present encouragement for people to play and run the setting, no matter how new they are.

“I want to play Greyhawk, but I don’t know it well enough.”

...

TUNLUK

TUNLUK is a mini starting campaign composed of L1-2, N1, T1, U1-3, and UK2-3. With some minor work, this group of adventures becomes a campaign for characters to level 4, possibly up to le ...

It is very evocative art. ;)

Perhaps this will inspire people to check both out.

Nice.
One of the things I always want to ask when some asks that question is if they can narrow down what they want to know a bit. That is why I tried to cover "everything". Now maybe if they pick an ...

It's here!

48 pages of fun to add to your Greyhawk campaign.

https://thegreygrimoire1.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/issue-2/

Something that comes up fairly regularly is a newcomer asking people for a description of the setting. This is something I consider rather difficult. There is a LOT to Greyhawk, and what exactly to hi ...

There are no Greyhawk specific metrics for the demographics of high-level characters. There are some edition specific guidelines for such on the basis of individual settlements, and others for specifi ...

Start with declaring that the Greyhawk Wars did in fact start in 577 CY with the various mobilizations and skirmishes noted in those articles. Just because there were no major conquests and a bit of a ...

I ultimately decided that everyone went Iron Age. The reason the Flan fell so easily during the Migrations is that their own nations had collapsed for one reason or another.
The Isles of Woe (Heraan) ...

As the intro below says, this is a follow up to my old Canonfire article on the population of the Flanaess. That article is here:
http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&am ...

Am I correct that this work doesn't treat the standard demi-human pantheons as canonical?

It treats them as what they are - standard, and thus not applicable to Oerth.
Oerth has its own powers wit ...

It was a reference to the weird heresies in Pontlyver and the far, far, far west where they assert that Alia is the mother of Haironeous as well as Hextorc, and some other weird guy called Stratego or ...

That was the origin of my mad musings - we were discussing the origins of Alia and who the fathers of Heironeous and Hextor were.
Summarizing:

Alia first appears in C2 Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan. ...

I wrote the story up this morning.
And decided Hextor's mother was Johydee's half-orc sister, Alia.
But your version looks good too.

While discussing Heironeous tonight, a thought occurred to me.

At birth, Heironeous was bathed in Meersalm which made his skin invulnerable.

So you might say that Meersalm is the original . . . ...

The New Canon begins!

The first full section covers the Peoples and Cultures of the Flanaess. Not just Humans and Demihumans. Not just Humanoids and Giants (reprinted from VOG). But everyone I coul ...

I decided to resolves the Lendore Isle "question" by having Leomund become a Quasipower serving Lendor. He returned to the island from a mission a short time after the elven takeover and expressed his ...

As I mentioned in my recent responses to Docjacques, I've enjoyed when we, Greyhawk fans, have posted about the prehistory of the Flanaess, including how its gods and races warred and established the ...

I love how neat this is and that it raises questions about the relationship between gods, dragons, titans, aboleths, and other primordial beings. Similar to how your clarification about Procan being a ...

-IRL, we don't charge people based on their level, we charge based on who's doing the teaching and the skill being taught. If you're offering a college course, we don't charge an experienced, 3rd leve ...

The NPC is limiting himself to what he knows.
As noted previously in regards to how the NPC picks a target, he is a professional grifter. His job is picking marks and deciding how much he can con the ...

How does the salesman know what level they are

He does not. The DM does, and he uses that guideline to decide how much the NPC asks for.

Or did EGG say that the DM does not know the levels of th ...

First, regarding "Giants of the Flanaess," Samwise, regarding Procan possibly being the sole creator of the Titans,

As it goes, Procan is not the sole creator of the Titan. He is merely the creator ...

A variant of the above for Gary.

Random Greyhawk Campaign Table

Greyhawk campaigns can be with a brazen homebrewers or haughty Gygaxian purists, thus making it difficult for the party to disting ...

A brand new one requested by Gary Holian.

Gary requested this

Wandering Greyhawker Table

Greyhawk encounters can be with a brazen OSRers or haughty grognards, thus making it difficult for the ...

For everyone who signs up with random DMs at conventions.

Wandering DM Table

DM encounters can be with a brazen min-maxer or a haughty rules lawyer, thus making it difficult for the party to dis ...

A special pair for Curtis.

Wandering White Claw Table

Strange women distributing alcoholic beverage encounters can be with brazen stoli seller or haughty hard cider hustler, thus making it diffi ...

Again for Curtis.

Perambulating Plague Table

Disease encounters can be with a brazen boil bearer or a haughty herpes shower thus making it difficult for the party to distinguish each encounter f ...

Requested by Curtis.

Wandering Spy Table

Spy encounters can be with brazen information brokers or haughty hit men, thus making it difficult for the party to distinguish each encounter for what i ...

This one is Woesinger's fault.

Random Invasion Table

Invastion forces can be with brazen hordes or haughty conqueror, thus making it difficult for the party to distinguish what counter measures ...

How exactly did the Thieves' Guild even pull this off, especially by getting the Watch to confiscate their weapons, and spellcasters from the Wizards' Guild? You'd think the rest of the Directing Olig ...

On the Sages of Greyhawk Facebook group, someone asked for a one shot in the City of Greyhawk for 4-5 PCs around 11th level for 3.5 rules. As it goes, this should work for characters of any level in a ...

An alternative view on the politics of the Uleks.

The Ulek Triumvirate

The three Ulek states, County, Duchy, and Principality, cover the southern Lortmil Mountains, west to the Sheldomar River, ...

It has arrived!

Visions of Greyhawk Volume II

58 pages of articles on the Flanaess.
Multiple systems and editions.
The first adventure to appear in Visions.

And the team is hard at work on ...

Another one inspired by a random comment during a discussion on the Discord.
h/t to Woesinger for the end paragraph and the entries derived from it.

Castle encounters can be with brazen outposts o ...

Sooooon.

As in, ''If the Red Plague does not strike us down, before the end of the week. Istus knows our fate."

Final version is done. We are waiting on finalizing the technical stuff and having ...

Visions of Greyhawk Volume II

Following the success of our first Visions of Greyhawk release, we are happy to announce our second issue! The fan response was tremendous, so we have expanded the sec ...

These came from random comments and my general madness on the Discord.
The first of them is based on the presentation in "Den of Thieves", where the oldest profession was bowlderized as "dancing girl ...

The "demi" of their status could be in the classical sense and they are all part-mortal.

Also, "intermediate" ranking was added later on in 2nd ed, so it is perhaps not appropriate to critique the ...

For instance, is it possible surface elves are matriachal in some way? Celene is ruled by a Queen after all.

Do surface elves have fighting societies?

What about political rivalries?

Elites l ...

I treat the human, demi-human, and humanoid races as a species complex, all capable of interbreeding, but doing so or not based on various cultural restrictions.
I consider Gnomes to be a Dwarf-Elf m ...

Due to the generally egalitarian nature of the game, inheritance seems presumed to be a general primogeniture.

Functionally, I expect it is more "to the strongest", with inheritance going to whoeve ...

Night Below is a solid product. The flaws I noted were:

1. It may be too big. My players enjoyed it but started burning out by the end of the second part. We finished with new PCs for the third par ...

Anton Palmirian is thoroughly corrupt, and is a rather overbearing influence on Lawyers' (and Scribes' and Accountants') Guild, so any faction of them supporting Eritai will be small.

Of course, so ...

A couple initial comments:

The examples in Samwise's Appendix N: Kingdom Rules are hilarious. (I still can't decide if I best like his depictions of Thrommel or Tenser.)

Also, I greatly enjoyed ...

For Drelnza, I figured if I was going to blow up the world I might as well blow up Iuz as well as he is getting rather old.
Not to mention that if you are going to be dominated it is much more fun to ...

I am not working on the project, but I am contributing.

I would not, and never will, do anything under the FCP, and for a specific reason above and beyond what Norker mentioned.

Further, anyone ...

One thing to note with historical references is that there are several "types" of loot.

1. Personal Effects
Everything from armor and weapons to a stash of coins in a purse to the purse itself, pl ...

Check the Reviews.
I reviewed a bunch of AQ stuff back in the day: the AQ Land of Fate book, the AQ Arabian Adventures boxed set, the City of Delights boxed set, The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook, and t ...

Yes, let's nip something in the bud. There is no one, fan or otherwise, that has any right to demand anything of the owners and administrators of this site.

We are all greatful for what they do ...

However, there may have certainly been settlements ain Dimre before its theocracy was founded, and its possible the Paladin-King had settled in that area a few decades before 420. Perhaps the Paladin- ...

Having one of my article invoked, I will provide some answers to long time Greyhawkers:

As Rip notes and surmises, I did have the BoA. As he also notes, there are contradictions between that and ot ...

Samwise; I don't want to get into a flame war but I thought I was very respectful rather than rude within my post. I am somewhat confused that you feel any criticism of the developments within the plo ...

I am not attacking the writers ability and am willing to see where this ends but I have too agree with Cebrion on a point. Enough with the leadership slaughter; I realize their are those that want rad ...

Because a lot of this was my madness, I will back up Eric and explain things a bit more thoroughly.

Why would Turin throw away 20+ years of friendship?
Well, first of all, it was 20+ years of a po ...

I don't think I actually read the first two and after this, I thought it was just as funny as Order of the Stick. I surely hope that Salume Sewis is able to continue writing these - even it is for us ...

I don't think WotC is "evil." But making a good game is an art, and art is not concerned with profit. And unfortunately, the D&D brand is owned by an entity whose primary reason for being is profi ...

As Vormaerin said.
If you think that is the history of TSR you simply don't have a clue. The only reason they didn't "bet the farm" at the beginning is because they didn't have a farm to bet. The mom ...

<rant>

Ayup. I didn't want to elaborate that much, but there you have it.

I have a concern trying to de-Islamify the Baklunish, they have always appeared culturally middle-eastern and the religion/political system of the mix is obviously Islamic circa Ottoman Empire. Even t ...

Well, replacing Islamification with "Mongolian Golden Horde-ification" is not exactly the best solution, but I will grant you that it is at least better.

I didn't replace them with the Golden Horde ...

Now, if we can just retcon that whole horrible Islamification thing...

<Cebrion ties a piece of raw meat to the topic and sets Sam loose on it>

I already did. Why do you think I wrote the ...

Wow.
Now that's some hardcore heresy.
And the analysis is tight. Looking at it spelled out, it seems so obvious.
Great work!
Now to do something horrible with it. >: )

What's wrong with the hobloggers?

Hoblogger = Hobniz (halfling) + logger

I'll still go with my version of Cuthbert in OJ 20.
Happy