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Correction to 2E. The barbarian kit is specifically the movie version of Conan. Proficient with bastard sword and battle axe, poor reaction rolls with spell casters, cheesy literary basis.

The ...

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wonder if anyone could recommend a good reading about the diferent kinds of barbarians in GH. A player in my group whants to play one, (a montain or plains man). Not the "hulk smash" guy, ...

One could assume. From the AD&D description, I kind of infer that female orcs are basically beat into submission and incapable of consenting to anything. Maybe a human has a pig fetish or somet ...

FWIW, orcs cross-breed with almost anything and only 10% of these pairings can pass as the non-orcish parent; the rest are statistically orcs. Half-orcs are specifically those human/orc hybrids who c ...

[url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=563]I9: Day of Al'Akbar and [url=http://paizo.com/store/downloads/wizardsOfTheCoast/aDAndD1/adventures/v5748btpy7mbz]her ...

And I always thought the Monster Manual and Monstrous Manual listed orcs as lawful.... Wink

One option is to have the orcs translate into common as they do in Warhammer, with bosses and big boss ...

Valley (and wild elves, IIRC) are defined in the Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Basically, Valley Elves are grey elves with sorcerer as the favored class (the sample is a rgr1/sor1) and I don't remember ...

Is the mega map due to be updated with the new pg71 map?

(FWIW, my vote is for more pages rather than updating the big map if prioritizing is an issue.)

Just replace the word memorize with prepare and it all works.

IE 6.0. This is the only forum that doesn't work right for me.

I'm having a problem with the interface. The first page I enter identifies new stuff, but it all changes to old as soon as I click anything. So, when I am on the index page, I have several fora mark ...

The basic/advanced class mechanic. I prefer the original version of Pulp Heroes. A character started as an explorer or mystic or soldier or whatever. None of this dull smart hero, strong hero ho-hu ...

If it uses the d20 modern engine, I would recommend against it. If a d20 variant is required, I would recommend the Dave Noonan's Pulp Heroes mini-game from Polyhedron 149/Dungeon 90. IIRC, there is ...

First, barbarians were introduced in the AD&D UA as a very different class than the D&D3.x version. Specific cultural notes/tweaks were included in the class specifically to differentiate the ...

I've basically read the first and last pages of this, so I apologize if it's been covered.

Anna, will you continue to post here when you get a new piece done? Is there a mailing list or RSS feed ...

My only hope is that the new stuff is so much fluff that it is still usable to the non-4E crowd. Pipe dream, I know Sad

For an encounter sytem within a battle, the only system I am familiar with is L5R's. Of course, service in battles is expected as a trope of the milieu.

I also like Battlesystem 2E. Much easier t ...

As long as I make name level in the first real year of play, I'm happy. If I'm playing weekly or bi-weekly and it's 3 months before 2nd level, I'm leaving. That's just the kind of game I prefer. An ...

Ummm, I think this belongs in the main forum. Can't imagine the Gary and Co not listening to this in the beginning. Laughing

I found out through WoG, too.

Now as much as I hate to shill GW, their Mordheim Cult of the Possessed cultists are, [url=http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod11200 ...

No gunpowder combustion is an artifact of the Manual of the Planes. At the baseline established there (Oerth), magic and Newtonian physics are at opposite ends of a sliding scale. Oerth's level of m ...

Someone named Jay Hafner (sp?) had an excellent GH website years ago and used Emirikol as his handle. Was Hafner a fan or was he actually Emirikol's player?

Jay was the lead triad guy for the Coun ...

(I used him for one of my characters, "Pholtius, Protector of the Faith"; a 1e half-elf paladin/ranger)

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By the way, who is Vecna?

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To the re-education camps with you!

Oh, I can see all kinds of possibilities for adventure in the lavd of vcuum cleaners Wink

But, Greyhawk can't be destroyed, not yet, anyway. Pluffet Smedger still has to write his Glossography in 998. After that (evil smiley)

I would not argue against an interpretation of all Flan referring to themselves as such. The word in Flan probably has a meaning similar to American Indian tribal names, a variation on "the people." ...

Gotta disagree a bit with some of the choices. Omar Sharif gets Rary, Oded Fehr Drawmij or Alhamazad. But that's just using their ages and the Arabic to Baklunish stereotype.

And Anjelica Huston ...

I would even argue that LGG doesn't apply as "definitive" or "canonical" as it is a document for a specific campaign, Living Greyhawk. That's what I like about Greyhawk; here is the start point and s ...

"Ker" appears in Ivid in the name of Ker Bazainn, a castle/fortress in the South Province. I've taken it to be Old Oeridian for fort/castle/fortress/hold.

Ker is identified in TSB as meaning brave. ...

If it helps, I dropped the expert to weak BAB and the warrior to medium. End result, experts can't fight any better than adepts and commoners and aristocrats and warriors are basically no different e ...

So that means any metal can be oerthblooded, with the attendant modifiers, including extra cost, added to the final product. Oerthblooded mithral armor, oerthblooded cold-iron swords, etc.

But alloys are mentioned. Alloys are man-made, not natural. If the oerthblood comes mixed with something else out of the ground, that is oerthblood with impurities, not an alloy. This says to me th ...

Because the sidebar with the rules talks about alloying it with cold iron and mithral. No specific rules are given for these so that's why I'm asking what the concensus is.

So, let me get this straight (since I finally got the mag from my FLGS). Oerthblood is basically hopped up adamantine. That costs less to enchant. And can be alloyed with other special materials. ...

They're from a Living Greyhawk Journal published in Dragon IIRC. Don't ask for an issue number, I have no idea. It might be in the LGJ index someone posted [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.p ...

I doubt the Knights of the Order of the Hart and the Knights of the Hart are separate orders as it appears your list identifies them. But then again, I may have missed something.

Or the fact tha ...

To emphasize what Kirt said, NPCs are specifically stated to have as many NWPs in their professional areas as the DM deems necessary for their supposed mastery level.

So, you want the master smith? ...

Levels in various editions do not correlate. In 1st edition, 9th level was pretty much the threshold for epic play. In 3rd edition, 20th level is that threshold. Everything else scales off of this, ...

One idea I've been toying with is to remove skill rank limits for the NPC classes. The corollary is AD&D2 0-level NPCs who have as many NWP slots devoted to their professional skills as the DM de ...

to embrace being a thoroughly Chaotic deity of all kinds of fighting.

They turn into Kord Shocked

Hi Andy. I used to like the Deities & Demigods distinction between souls and spirits. You likely recall that humans, demi-humans, and humanoids all had souls, except for elves, which had spirits ...

That's nice and all, but the issue was resolved, BTB, in AD&D2. Mixed elven heritage <50% human = half-elf. >50% human = human. That is the BTB rule.

This matters because it has game-r ...

So I saw the poll: Give Me My Expedition to... and noticed that the Sea of Dust was an option.

So, Dark Sun anyone? Okay, just because it is, by Spelljammer definition, within a closed crystal sph ...

Hobgoblins as baboons Shocked

The word translates as high goblin and that's how I always saw them.

I treat them as a newly classified type of magic-user. They've always been around, but until recently (ie, the release of 3E), no one recognized the difference in their spell-casting vs. wizards'.

So I saw the poll: Give Me My Expedition to... and noticed that the Sea of Dust was an option.

So, Dark Sun anyone? Okay, just because it is, by Spelljammer definition, within a closed crystal sph ...

For comparison, (applies to the other thread, too) looking at the prices it seems that $1~1sp. With AD&D coin conversion, that puts a longsword at about $300, a bastard sword at $400 and a two-ha ...

Gold is the currency of the nobility. Commoners probably never see it, nor would they be likely to want to make change for it. They may not even want to accept it for any number of reason, not the l ...

The problem with your proposal is that D&D currency runs on an economy that is precious metals based, unlike our modern currency which is tied to the percieved production capacity of the issuing p ...

Also, while it is said that Mordy's new hairless look is based on the former staff artist Fred Fields(who presumedly shaved his head at the time for whatever reason), it eerily looks a bit more like S ...

I believe all of that is in either G3, the D-series, the Fiend Folio or all of them.

I believe there is info about how Drow equipment is created with its bonuses in part due to the influence of the "strange radiation" of the Underdark on adamantine during the forging process.

Which ...

He has on, I'm not sure, deck shoes?

It IS game design philosophy. Why introduce something that has no relation to, and is contradictory to, the rest of the ruleset?

But ignoring a fundamental of prestige class design is like ignoring the reasoning behind giving a fighting class a good BAB. There are three things that should never be used. Not that should rarely ...

Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for!

I love you , man! Wink

The point is, rather than take the time to wheedle out the ultimately perfect requirement formula, just impose class and level requirements in the first place,

So, you're advocating laziness in pr ...

Linkies? Please.

I had a logo that was similar to the Greyhawk Adventures logo only without the word Adeventures under the word Greyhawk. Anyone know where I can find it again?

That's a possibility, remove the word arcane from all spellcasting references. The only problem is requiring specific numbers of fighter and rogue levels. This specifically violates one of the cardi ...

Yep, it's worthless. For the title they took the first college and the first level title of that college and then slapped some ridiculous requirements together...

Can you tell I don't really like ...

Sorry to hijack this into a rules discussion, but...

So, is your character wielding an appropriately sized greatsword, ie, medium sized? If so, the weapon is Large and cannot be wielded one-handed ...

(one of my PC, coming from Zeif, a worrior cleric who fight with two great swords).

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Monkey-grip much?

Greyhawk is an inherently neutral aligned city.

And I don't even know who's on the Council of Oligarchs anymore.

What do you get when two half-elves get children?

Mathematically, a quarter-elf. Wink

Noooooooo

Seriously, it's still a half-elf, mathematically. 1 part human/1 part elf + 1 part ...

Let me know if you want anything from [url=www.angelfire.com/games5/andysgamepit/greyhawk.html]here

Just give me credit when you publish.

I've posted mine here before, I can PM it if you like. Or you can just go to my website.

By the way, what is the general concensus for my version?

Edit [url=www.angelfire.com/games5/andysgamepi ...

Well, real world gods are cultural artifacts. They principally exist to elucidate and justify cultural mores. So a close identification with culture is both sound and relevant. Fantasy gods are ...

So, to use 2E terms, druids are the specialty priests of Beory. Everyone else has to come up with their own. Got it.

Cool. All druids are initiates of the Old Faith, period. It's a workable model, and AD&D level titles and class restrictions support it.

But Beory, the Oerth Mother, is a Flan deity, the Old ...

How does restricting "druidry", and I assume this includes the druid class, to the Old Faith and worship of Beory interact with other canonical druidic organizations? The Flan aren't the only culture ...

I think by virtue of it being an expedition to the Abyss it is not Greyhawk specific.

Since confusion and obfuscation are by necessity part and parcel to the worship of Tharizdun in Greyhawk, IMC Tharizdun is the Elder Elemental God of the Eilservs. Do they realize it? Probably not.

Hijack!!!!!!!!

mithril

MithrAl, people, mithrAl. We can't spell it with an I or Dr Tolkien's estate will be on us like an annoyed Balrog on some trespassing dwarves.

Or something. Confused

Plea ...

And the Elder Elemental God or Eye is a front for Tharizdun. (Any help with the reference?)

Sorry, I'm just a little tired of all this Drow are the agents/worshippers of Lolth alone claptrap. Tha ...

So, you want all references to people and artifacts from published Greyhawk stuff?

Do you need the full descriptions or just a list to jog the memory?

Willow was a real laugh. It was just that bit too cheesy for me and hence fell just off my list. I never could work out why the evil warrior betrayed her mother. Gr8 film though.

Because she was ...

Plus, the only god worsipped by drow in canon is Tharizdun, IIRC. Lolth is a demoness who somehow manages to grant clerical abilities, not a deity as certain FR authors attribute.

I am a fan of the new edition, at least 3e. Also grew up with the origianl, moved to AD&D and then AD&D2 and finally D&D3e. 3.5 cleaned some things up, but I don't think it was worth a n ...

A lot of the movies mentioned have parties that only consist of three or fewer characters. For the "true D&D" experience I would suggest Conan the Destroyer over Conan the Barbarian only because ...

I tried to build Graz'zt's priesthood around Eclavdra as portrayed in the Gord novels.

And here I thought she was a cleric of the Elder Elemental Eye (Tharizdun). Huh, Grazzt?

Hijack!!!!

Where are yo stationed? Do you have a post laundry? I know a couple of places that won't accept your gear if it doesn't come to them with the turn-in docs form the laundry. And it mak ...

That would be because any 7th level (IIRC) cleric is a canon(ess) just as any 4th level cleric was a priest(ess) and any 9th level or higher cleric was a high preist(ess). AD&D level titles.

he's Nassar Reltec's cousin. (Inside joke from my campaigns.)

I'd also like to quell this drivel about Lolth being anything but an opportunistic arch-demoness who's figured out how to grant clerical abilities.

NOT the great elven goddess of evil and rebellion ...

I'll go with the attempted Samuel Jackson quote.

Or, perhaps, this could be the future, a time betwixt the current, late 6th Century Greyhawk we all love and the ca. 11th century low magic of Elder Smedger. Magic as technology, the artificers (or w ...

Hierophants Return? As in hierophant druids? I have a start in a prestige class (3E, may need some minor conversion to 3.5) for them. Anyone wanting to flesh out an article is welcome to it.

However, none of them permanently bind the creature. Nor will the creature actually die in the service of the summoner.

My only rule on steam and other combustion powered stuff: Doesn't exist. Oh, you can have all the gunpowder and means to use it you want. Or a steam engine and coal and water. All you've done is s ...

My only suggestion is to keep humanity. L5R is very human-centric and xenophobic; only one non-human race has even marginal acceptance.

If you must have a non-human population, re-assign the non-h ...

Also, check out website (that little button onthe bottom of this post) for other stuff.

Nah. A few things I forgot. The bardic lore modifier is twice level plus Int modifier (thus, it is 20 plus Int mod at 10th level and increases by one point after that IAW epic level rules; basically ...

Except for the OJ15 version being illegal under the D&D3.x ruleset, and it's ridiculous number of levels for a prestige class, sure, it's great.

My version, and a discussion of my thoughts in d ...

Hijack!!!

In regards to Heironeous, battleaxes are the default weapon of unaligned chaotic clerics. Can't have the lawful good war god using a chaotic weapon, regardless of how long he's been asso ...

As long as I don't have to play with another of her paladins described as Britney Spears in chainmail. You know who you are....

Dragon #93 (and everything subsequent) confirmed that the proper pronuciation of drow does, indeed, make it rhyme with cow. The "R" doesn't change how the following dipthong is pronounced.

And acco ...

Drow. With a long "O". Why?

Crow. Throw. Row. All words with an -ow diphthong and an r immediately preceding.

Not cow. Or wow. Or meow. That's just silly or something.

Since the great ...

As for the "final form" of the saber, while it may have been straight for the US Cavalry, it wasn't for many others, including the US Marine dress sword.

That's because the USMC sword and saber we ...