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

I'm quite intrigued by the olven history, in particular.

Have you considered making silver-haired grey e ...

I guess I didn't mention him in that Cuthbert's opposition to and intervention against Iuz is so well established that an additional demigod foe seemed superfluous.

I don't know the answer to that, but am curious if anyone has ever done anything interesting with her. Her portfolio is so close to Heironeous that she seems really redundant, god-wise.

From what ...

In White Dwarf #22, p. 13 (according to Zavoda Index), there's a magic item named Tenser's Shield, possibly written by Roger Moore.

I don't have access to this issue and would like to know about th ...

Sort of a tangent but the original post got me thinking:

What third-party or non-GH modules would be suitable for use as existing (but undeveloped) adventure locations?

The Carl Sargent-era Gre ...

Thanks you, Grodog, for the interesting parties. Two questions:

1) do either of these parties have an adventuring company name?

2) were either of these parties undertaking a (ideally, not linke ...

Sir Xaris, thanks so much for that link. I'll definitely be looting that for NPCs.

Sadly, I spent the last ten minutes trying to persuade myself that Tenser = McConaughey could work. It cannot wo ...

The party in the Age of Worms campaign I'm DMing (The Diamond Lake **** Weasels—long story) is starting the Spire of Long Shadows chapter and so will be heading to Magepoint for their first meeting wi ...

I really like the idea that the nine as listed by EGG/RJK were mere demigods at the time of their imprisonment, but have risen to Lesser God status as a result of their freeing.

I don't like how ma ...

Here's a related question I've wondered about for a long time:

How much can we glean of the culture of SURFACE elves by the description of the dark elves in Vault of the Drow?

(it being a curios ...

Thanks everyone for the legal particulars, adversarial vs. inquisitorial, and notes on habeas corpus—none of this stuff is my strong suit,

1) The denunciation and confession scene took place within ...

Thank you, Tarelton and Samwise,

A few wrinkles/clarifications:

Whether Pappy is technically guilty of burglary, I'm not sure. What he did was enter Eritai's private chambers and magically copy ...

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1) To what extent does the Church of Saint Cuthbert in Greyhawk City obey Greyhawk city law when to do so is against the ethics and interests of the church itself?
2) How should ...

Thanks, Grodog. I'll have to check out my copy of the new Isle of Dread—weird that such an item was added in the new version.

I've found a few more in some obscure places:

• A Chase Through the ...

Wow, that is a true paucity of many-worlded wells. I'd have thought a magic item dating back at least to the 1e DMG would've shown up more.

Is anyone familiar enough with the Anthony Huso adventur ...

I'm looking for any published adventure including a well of many worlds. I'd prefer a Greyhawk adventure, of course, but will settle for what exists.

The only adventure I know of off-hand is a Liv ...

Thanks, Allan, I always appreciate roundups like this,
JC

Allan, it appears from one of the photos that were print copies of the new Lakofka adventures. Are these for sale anywhere?

I use Ehlonna for spring (adversary of Obad-hai autumn) and Beory represents all four of the seasons in one.

I attended a Q&A with Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1985. I got to ask him a question, and I asked him how many Great Druids there were in the Flanaess.

He answered me, definitively, seven. And th ...

Both Greyhawk Grognard (on his blog) and the Greyhawk Reborn guy (on his Patreon) have completed and filled out the Baklunish pantheon, each in his own way. I prefer the version of Joe Bloch/Greyhawk ...

Is there actually anything in Storm King's Thunder that connects/references/relates to GDQ1-7, or is it listed here simply because it involves giants and was inspired by the earlier work?

I miss the Hardby Amazons and would be curious and interested in what you come up with. The Flanaess needs more women-dominated areas, IMO.

I second the mention of CASLentertainment stuff. Carlos should also get a shout-out for his magic item design, which is the best I've seen.

Dvorak also recently published Ravensrook, which is the ...

I love these adventures. I think T0 Journey to Hommlet might be my favorite, a superb prequel adventure for a party traveling to Hommlet before T1. The locations and the journey are very well-develo ...

I like the names you've derived from the syllables quite a bit, but I'd eschew using those identical to the deity's name to prevent multiplication of imaginary entities and confusion at the gaming ta ...

Thanks, everyone. What's especially interesting here, which I don't think I ever noted before, is that, pre-Slave Lords, Safeton really seems to be the center of slavery in the Wild Coast/Domain of G ...

I confess that nothing sounds more Grey- than the slaveholding landowners of the Wild Coast banding together in righteous indignation against the Yellow Sails slavers who in their depredations are sla ...

A topic I know has been hashed out before is Who were the Slave Lords selling slaves to? and I believe the consensus was the Sea Princes and the Scarlet Brotherhood.

However, while reading the From ...

Since the weather patterns on earth are a mirror image of themselves north and south of the equator, it seems reasonable that such patterns could have evolved in an opposite direction on any other pla ...

Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion that Oerth rotates and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west just as on earth.

According to the Guide and subsequent sources, prevailing wi ...

I will second Califor's comment that T0 Journey to Hommlet is an excellent introduction to T1-4. It's free on Greyhawk Grognard's website; check it out if you haven't yet.

I <like> CG elves evicting all the humans without compromising their alignment or demonic deceit. What's great about Greyhawk is the threat of wars and conflict between good-aligned groups.

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Yes, the PC is neither a cleric nor a follower of Saint Cuthbert, but studied the faith in great detail as part of her backstory.

I think my hesitation about direct action by the Viscount has been ...

Cuthbert definitely won't be okay with this, as much of her "revisions" to the creed undermined authority and hierarchy in the name of equality.

My sense is that the Church of Saint Cuthbert would ...

According to the Greyhawk Wiki: "The Stars, whose symbol is a starburst, seek to enforce doctrinal purity among those already dedicated to the saint. Most are lawful neutral, and they do not shy from ...

Yes. Dusty the Witch was in fact only one of two assistants to the real perpetrator, the party factotum i.e. thief Pappy Dickens; but due to earlier suspicion and too-narrowly worded divinations from ...

Thank you, everyone, for the feedback and suggestions.

Vulcan, there's not only no bounty hunter guild, there's not even an adventurer guild—although, practically-speaking, the Seekers of the Arcan ...

Vulcan, because there's no mention of a bounty hunter guild in Greyhawk City (in the CoG box set, FtA Campaign book, G:TAB, or ETRG) I assumed there wasn't one and that the Assassins Guild was the clo ...

As mentioned in another recent thread, in my campaign Fionor the Rude has contracted with the Greyhawk Assassins Guild to retrieve a party member alive so she can be sent to Greysmere for trial as a t ...

Thanks, Allan,

I hope this scenario gets published or becomes available at some point, along with L6 & whatever else he left behind.

A suggestion concerning Queen Darielle hiring the Scarlet Brotherhood on behalf of Nyrond:

What if Darielle herself was a Scarlet Brotherhood agent? Either this fact or her machinations against Fur ...

I've heard tell of an unpublished Len Lakofka module called Ravages of the Mind. Does anyone have any more information on this? Is it available somewhere? Will it be? What's it about?

By "southeast" do you mean west-southwest?

Rasgon, these are fascinating suggestions for how we COULD use the first five levels of WG7 in something approximating a normal Greyhawk campaign, but do these fascinating suggestions suggest your end ...

I have several related questions, as I've contemplated running an all-Castle Greyhawk-all-the-time campaign whenever my Age of Worms campaign finishes up.

1) People always say that WG7 Castle Greyh ...

I don't know if these are available anywhere, since the old Wizards site is no more, but when the adventure came out there were three web enhancements of a sort available:

Errands and Excursions by ...

Current plan is for Ramman Damian (mentioned but not detailed in CoG: FFF) to sleep-poison the party during dinner and then use a staff of travel to teleport the hopefully unconscious witch and himsel ...

Good catch and timely for my purposes, as my PCs saved Dernan Nathane aka Sepris (I've adapted the 3.5 adventure Ring of Thieves to Greyhawk as its author suggested) from an attempted coup a few sessi ...

A great question, by the way. The PCs in my campaign are getting mixed up in the machinations between Eritai Kaan-Ipzirel and Nerof Gasgal in early CY 596.

How I wish the Living Greyhawk developme ...

I just remembered that the head of the Assassins Guild (Vesper) hates dwarves and probably wouldn't take the job. . . .

The Assassins' Guild is a really interesting idea, particularly because trade with Greyhawk is a pretty big deal for Greysmere. I hadn't thought of them performing kidnappings before, but that does m ...

Oh, not at all, I'm thinking he brings about a dozen dwarves, including his daughter and a war priest.

Wow, that's a great little program. (& thank you for understanding that spell correction Empire means Empyrea)

I appreciate these guides of yours, esp. w/ regard to adventures that have recomm ...

I'd forgotten how much I appreciated your Tomb of Annihilation suggestions a few years ago.

Where did that map of Empire come from? I don't think I've ever seen it before.

While wintering in Greysmere, the party thief, Pappy Dickens, learned of and in a subtle heist successfully stole Acererak's Libram (Dragon #225) from the treasure room of Fionor the Rude, with the as ...

This is all amazing, in-depth, and extremely welcome. Can we all chip in to buy Rasgon a special hat or something?

That seems to imply that there are five levels of citizenship in the Domain of Greyhawk:

1) landed nobles

2) citizens dwelling inside the walls of the City of Greyhawk

3) subjects of the Doma ...

In both City of Greyhawk & The Adventure Begins, we learn that only citizens of Greyhawk can buy property within the city, foreigners must rent houses (Foreign Quarter only) or rooms in an inn (an ...

Lareth, that list was exactly what I was hoping to get when I posted. Thank you so much for the thought and recommendations.

However, my pathological love of etymology is going to make me decide t ...

That's a good question and I don't know that yet. My inclination is that they make the children supersuspectible to temptation and/or corruption.

When the party attacked Tolstoff Manor and killed ...

In Living Greyhawk Journal #2, p11, is described a toyshop known as the Grinning Mammet. The proprietor, Sen Thelamae, has become an expert artisan thanks to a pact with an unnamed "archdevil of the ...

Due to a poorly worded command to a nycadaemon he managed to briefly control, a character in my campaign inadvertently ended up sending the nycadaemon on a suicide mission to kill Syrul "for vengeance ...

The player rolled the "enmity of Syrul" option. I'm going to start a new thread soliciting angry goddess suggestions.

A little late to add this but it occurred to me a good explanation for the conspicuous absence of a human moon goddess could be that, in the distant past, Pholtus claimed both sun and moon as his doma ...

Okay, after some more thought, my inclination is to do this: At the next game, I'll have the incarnate player roll a d6, without telling him why. The d6 will determine what the nycadaemon does:

1 ...

In the player's defense, we were seven hours into an eight hour game, and everyone was tired, but, yeah, still . . .

Thank you for all of these wonderful, fiendish ideas.

The nycadaemon certain ...

Last week in my Age of Worms game, the party, caught up in a Thieves Guild gang war, entered the City of Greyhawk's sewers to hunt down the instigator of the internecine struggle, the secretary of the ...

The Mellifleur stuff is great, Rasgon, and I plan to incorporate that into the Kyuss backstory for my campaign.

What I'm still developing/brainstorming is Kyuss' hijacking of these older doom proph ...

I think the implication is that "Dalt" is and always was Nyarlathotep, the whole demigod of doors thing is a ruse to instigate foolish mortals (e.g. Mordenkainen or the like) into freeing something be ...

I'm DMing this right now, using my own AD&D/OSRified Pathfinder 1st edition rules (which I call Greyhack). We started the campaign about a year ago and we're just starting the fourth adventure, H ...

There is an old Maure Castle forum archived on the Paizo site, into which Rob Kuntz occasionally waded. My recollection is he was questioned about the Dalt stuff at one point and was characteristical ...

I agree with Rasgon and have used Ehlonna as a moon goddess for the Flanaess.

In the new Greyhawk Rebooted materials, Istus comprises four avatars, each somewhat tied to an element and the Air one ...

There was speculation in an Oerth Journal about the elves of Celene originally have paths of song or some such by which they could travel across the Sheldomar Valley instantly. In the war with Vecna, ...

Oh, I have that. Thanks, I'll check it out. My recollection was that there were only times listed for a few of the gods.

in 3.5/Pathfinder, priests need to pray for their spells at a particular time of day, specific to the deity. Does anyone know of a list of deities that includes information on what time of day their ...

Thanks, CruelSummerLord, that's a good suggestion and it's probably best in the interests of time-at-the-table to just have the guards issue the requisite licenses at the gate.

Your bribes actually ...

Xaris, yeah, that's where I have been looking. I've assembled the info in CoG, GtAB, the Living Greyhawk Journals, Dungeon magazines, and Maldin's Greyhawk into one giant Greyhawk City book, but, as ...

Also, I found additional information on this topic in a sort of oddball place:

The Greyhawk Ruins Sourcebook. This is a pdf that Living Greyhawk released when Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk c ...

Thank you one and all for weighing in on this. These issues have been on my mind for quite a while, and there's many great ideas here to consider.

Xaris, sadly, my game is in CY595 and GtAB seems ...

The PC party in my Age of Worms campaign will arrive at the Duke's Gate of the City of Greyhawk during next weekend's session. This will be the first time any of these characters or players have visi ...

This 5e Kickstarter appears to be a "Stealthhawk" (Greyhawk with serial numbers filed off) version of Rookroost:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ravensrook/ravensrook-the-black-winged-city-of- ...

Well, that is just superb. Thanks, Rasgon, for the I-don't-remember-how-manyeth time.

I'm going to want to crank up the threat on those traps in the secret room, however (without going full on Gri ...

The party is currently wintering at Greysmere in the Domain of Greyhawk.

One of the PCs, Pappy Dickens, a member of the Greyhawk Thieves Guild, has learned that Fionor the Rude, headsman of Greysme ...

Allan, from what others have said online, I don't think that's true. But I also heard that City Encounters might be his NEXT kickstarter.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm definitely going to merge 1eDMG with Midkemia's Cities (the latter being the best tables I've ever found).

How do I wish that Finch's City Encounters was available ...

I agree with Rasgon almost always about everything, but in this case I think Gaxmoor works best as an early Oeridian settlement. There's no Baklunish flavor in the settlement as designed.

This actually had a semi-official placement (either by Luke Gygax or Gary) in Bissel. I'm trying to recall where this was stated, but when the first edition came out, Gygax Sr. wrote a little introdu ...

Does such a thing exist?

Of course, I could use the 1e AD&D DMG tables or the even better tables in Joseph Bloch's Random Terrain & Encounter Table, but it seems that someone in the last th ...

These are all hilarious. I can definitely do Gilbert Godfried, though a dwarven Gilbert might be another thing.

Great find on that Ulaa reference, Rasgon. I guarantee that was placed there by Erik Mona, and I think you're right to suspect he was hinting at her origins with the creators of Exag. I can't believ ...

Thank you both for all of the suggestions. I've been a fan of the Complete Book of Dwarves (the best of the Complete series) and of the Dwarven etiquette article for some time.

The PCs in my campaign will arrive in Greysmere at the end of the next session. One PC is a dwarf who's been avoiding coming home for about six months, as his mother has arranged his marriage to the ...

This is an interesting post, with an adventure I've never heard of before, and also an official name for those hills near the Bramblewood Forest on the Ket/Bissel border.

http://zenopusarchives.blo ...

Yeah, it's going. There was an update from Kristoph just a few weeks ago on the next issue coming out this spring, I think?

I've been loving the print issues.

I was imagining East-of-Evening in the heartlands of Celene i.e. very very safe and protected from foreign raids. And I'd also imagine that Celene (along with maybe the interior of Veluna and possibl ...

So, if we don't worry about mortality from non-aging causes, I think what you're saying is this:

1) we assume our faerie town of 1500 has 1 faerie of each age from 1 to 1500

2) every year someon ...

This is a post about me not being able to get my head around the necessary math, and I'd love some help from whoever is more capable than I.

Let's postulate a small Celenian town, called East-of-Ev ...

So what would that make the Tiger Nomads?

Those stairs definitely go up; it's called out in the encounter key in Exemplars of Evil.

The only way to the catacomb is a so-thin-you-can-very-nearly-miss it staircase in the secret passage label ...