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Why is there a town called Salt Harbor on the Nyr Dyv if it's fresh water?

Are there salt mines there or something?

I loved this. The characters and the maps will certainly add additional flavor to my Artisan's Quarter.

In our campaign, we have Tenserian Nimblewrights forged beneath the Fortress of Unknown Depths. I liked the creature concept, but changed the abilities a little to fit the campaign style and to give t ...

I agree with SirXaris and Argon, sit them down and discuss with them that their behavior during a game that is supposed to be fun and is anything but. And I can certainly sympathize with the want and ...

Fantastic!

Thank you!

It's a very handy resource to have at your fingertips.

I'm very glad to see this as a topic, as I've wondered this myself and I'm running a campaign that is meant to have the beginnings of a burgeoning Renaissance period centered in the city of Greyhawk. ...

1) Right now just in the vicinity of the City of Greyhawk, The Fortress of Unknown Depths, Cairn Hills and Bright Desert but also in the Vale of the Mage and gated onto Luna into a huge greenhouse adm ...

you guys are killing me.

Lanthorn, again a heartfelt thank you. It's nice to hear that the Gygax Magazine is using illustration and art!

Personally like a nice mix of city, wilderness, dungeon crawls and I'm hoping to introduce some ship battles and Greyspace adventures.

Thank you, both! Wink

With the Cat Lord being well documented in the Gord books and various publications, I'm kind of curious about the other Animal Lords, their alignments and allegiances, how they manifest on Greyhawk, a ...

Thank you once again, Rasgon!

I'm with you on that, smillan, as I'm reading them for the first time in the Wiki. The Sisters, on the other hand, is definitely in the Greyspace book. Checked out the link too. I see you have thought ...

I was going over the old Spelljammer books (Greyspace) and our handy wiki, and it states there are 12 stations of the zodiac.

Four are named: the Druid, the Dancer of Swords, the Swan, the Sisters, ...

Always fashionably late to the party... Laughing

1) Shane/illustr8or

2) My last job as Art Director of an educational printing company was my least favorite because of the soul-crushing boss and ...

I always assumed that Jaran and the Valley Elves were creatures on the same side of the coin, with regards to their similar backgrounds of isolation and being cast out?

That's exactly how I'm building it, Tenser suspecting things but not knowing the full picture, just knowing what he knows, sending the PCs to thwart Rary... only to uncover the larger oerth-shattering ...

Most decadent tourist spot? My bet would be on the city Erelhei-Cinlu.

What happens in Erelhei-Cinlu, stays in Erelhei-Cinlu...
probably because it died as a result. Laughing

What do you think the murder of Tenser and Otiluke was all about at the signing of the Greyhawk Wars treaty? Rary's attempt on Mordenkainen. The others were simply in the wrong place, at the wrong tim ...

I do enjoy Maldin's info. I even kicked some cash to him and Anna because I enjoy what they do and provide. Smile

Now if The Mage of the Valley has moved on to become a shade in my campaign and ...

No worries! I'm weaving in some of the Circle of 8 intrigue into my current game and it does provide some food for thought. Smile

Thank you!

I've only read the first two Gord novels and I've seen mention of a person or being called the Demiurge. I've done searching on the internet and keep coming up with the name Basiliv. I've also read th ...

I'm catching on up the conversation and finding that this should totally be something I should be watching. arrgh! Happy

I got rid of cable a couple years ago as I found I wasn't watching it and ...

Yes!

Thank you, Lanthorn!
I bow to your bardic sense of spinning yarns that show us the human under-pinings of why some men become heros and others become scoundrels in the fight for good or evil in Grey ...

For me, Richfest.

The sacred days of Sotillion - good food, drink, and company. It's the week of the relief of your burdens in high summer. The smell of jasmine and a free meal in the Garden Quarte ...

I like Mystic-Scholar's idea.

That PC definitely needs some reassurance in the future. It sounds like he's had some doubts about his place and in a time of great need, if he's truly learned, he mig ...

Really like your character blurbs and they really round out the group of PCs and my only wish is to be a fly on the wall to watch how your player juggles them as a group. Smile

You and your play ...

Maybe "re-birth" means renaissance. I know, it's an optimistic viewpoint instead of an Oerth-shattering one, but my fingers are crossed that it's not something that lights our collective faces on fire ...

I seem to remember a book of curses, pathogens and diseases - some mundane and others magical. Can anyone back this up?

Also, there are lots of monsters that "reproduce" by infecting a host - gree ...

Should the spell duration expire while the subject is still aloft, the magic fails slowly. The subject floats downward 60 feet per round for 1d6 rounds. If it reaches the ground in that amount of time ...

Sorry for the duplicate posting...

I have done this with my group. I posted here, some other sites for players and even did a "Meet-Up" (they'll spam you with stuff forever, even after you've taken yours down. Fair warning). We're goin ...

Some ideas off the top of my head:

1 ) Keep the possessed character flesh and blood. If a PC is possessed, pull a "Freaky Friday". The character now doesn't remember their former life (they are now ...

Lanthorn - tell me about it. I have to remind people we aren't playing the newer editions whenever I put my foot down. I'm thinking of putting a 'Well... In Pathfinder" jar on the table similar to a s ...

We've been playing since late August. We meet every other week (barring schedule conflicts) at my house on Sunday afternoons between 1 - 4. I'll PM you with some details Oerdin! Smile

I'm sure everyone's thought of references to "20000 Leagues Under the Sea", but I was just looking for art on the web and found some really great stuff for inspiration. You might want to check that ou ...

I just got finished watching a 3 part series with Terry Jones on ancient inventions. While I knew about papyrus, I didn't know that the precursor to modern day parchment came from sheep, where it's na ...

In the official spanish traslation (for example in the Players Guide) the Teocracy of the Pale is the "Teocracia de la Estaca" (Estaca = Stake, Picket, Pale).

I'm liking the visions of burning mag ...

I have a bunch of shipwrecked gnomes from Krynn working in a shop in Greyhawk, albeit in a warehouse. They've cannibalized parts of their ship to make steam engines and machines for production... and ...

It sounds very similar to what happens in some calderas. Like Mount Mazama in Oregon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama ) or perhaps what Yellowstone would look like after a terrible super-ex ...

Heck, yes! That would be cool. Cool

I'd love to hear them. I've been enjoying your posts a lot.

I've got low level PCs just starting and I need a couple of interesting Iuz related bad guys to u ...

I definitely agree with the like button. There's been several things I've read on here where I thought the same exact thing.

Heh! Yes, Coot. I can't wait until I say that one. I imagine it to be th ...

Good point, Lanthorn!

Thanks for everyone's input. We'll see which one of them is laughing when they get shanghaied and put on a Rhenee barge bound for somewhere up north. Evil Grin

Thank you, tigger1tom Wink

So if the band appears together does it herald the return of Vatun? Laughing

Ok. This is driving me a little crazy. Every time I attempt to pronounce "Iuz" it gets titters from my peanut gallery (ie. my players). How can it possibly strike terror into my players if every time ...

WOW. That's an undertaking! Congrats and looking forward to looking through it.

1) Probably Oeridian. I come from hardworking people.

2) Probably halfling. Short, mischievous, odd & self-deprecating… and fuzzy toes?

3) Chaotic Neutral. I'm often doing a lot of different ...

I might have... but...

There's an old tale that talks of a band of foolish pirates that had to get their Disk of the Azure Sea back. So it goes... After pirates slaughtered and took the treasure of ...

Lanthorn - I make all my players come up with a background so they are not only invested in whether they live or die, and it's so helpful for me as a DM to tailor the adventures to what their characte ...

I'd be down for Greyhawk Revisited if they did something cool with the other areas they never developed. Leave the core stuff alone and expand on what has just been hinted at or fan developed. That wo ...

1) Wizards - Just the general, non-specialized kind who knows a lot about a lot of things. I always envision these types of characters as the embodiment or personification of a creative persons imagin ...

I suppose I'll be slapped in irons by some for bringing this up, but if your campaign makes use of Spelljamming ships, trading espionage done through popping up, out, and over trade blockades and then ...

Personally, I love the artwork. I wouldn't give up on your plans though. I like the idea!

*laughing* Noted. Thanks for the warning.

Saw that today when I was reading blogs. The antique tone to it is really cool. Nice job man!

I'm really loving your NPC section. Well done! Probably going to spend hours in here poking about.

I was going over some old Dragon Magazines, felt inspired, and wrote this up for fun. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it. :)

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The Legend of Philidor

Phillip Arder, a banker for ...

http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-2e-Greyhawk-Game/

I finally got everything to a point where I'm happy with it. If interested still, take a look at the Meet Up. I'll also hit you up via private mess ...

That's nothing short of fantastic. I love the textures and the grit. Great job! Happy

Rasgon is an amazing source of information. You wonder where he stores it all and the references come so effortless.

This character seems to be ripe for a tragic tale that ultimately leads to redemption.

You could always have him pass away, but have him still introduced to your characters in a mystery scenario wh ...

I think Tenser is a completely different, though very firmly grounded but just a human wizard ahead of his time, with eyes on making sure the continent doesn't plunge into darkness. Wink

In my campa ...

I just read the synopsis for Dorothy Dunnett's "House of Niccolo" series. Definitely going to put that on my reading list!

Icarus, you're crackin' me up man! Laughing

tarelton wrote:
For the Rovers, I always thought something like the Comanches in Larry McMurtry's Comanche Moon was fitting.

I think my father may still have this novel. Great reference!

As far ...

First Name? Shane
Age? 37
Location? San Diego, CA
When you started playing D&D? 1984-ish?
What rules you started with? AD&D
where does your Forum Nick come from? I draw and paint. I kno ...

Fun topic!

As I'm setting my campaign post Greyhawk wars, with the influx of refugees and other far-flung curious types and rarely heard of countries popping their heads up and now being counted - ...

I'm constantly blown away by discoveries for WoG. Smile

Nice find!

We all love our paper modules and books we grew up with. The tactile nature of it surely has it's appeal... I'm an artist and still need my paper, but paper is going to become a minority product withi ...

I like those bonus touches, tarelton! It's a good way to force some newbies into roleplaying situations. And the key areas you fleshed out breathe life into something I think a lot of people might fin ...

SirXaris and smillan_31 - that's exactly what I was looking for! Smile

It's not that he's a pain or even argumentative... he's just a little bit of a logical smarty pants and I like to stay ahead of him with answers for things, if it can be explained easily while adding ...

I think it's helpful overall as I form what it is I'm after. Though, I think the players involved will be well-rounded enough to forego any sort of mercenaries (I think) and thankfully, the developing ...

I know of adventuring companies being detailed (rosters, main drives, alignments, base of operations, maps, etc.) but what I don't see are things like monthly payments to members, breakdowns of treasu ...

The Scarlet Brotherhood I imagined the Spanish Inquisition mixed with occult Nazism, with all the pomp and the regalia, sailing in Spanish armadas, and a little bit of the movie Beastmaster populated ...

I think the secret ingredient in those is rendered human or elf lard and the last thing the good Spelloyal's need is a bust up from some followers of St. Cuthbert. Laughing

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http://www.illustr8or.com/spelloyals/

I've started a first person diary of sorts to help foster the campaign's feel, detailing and rounding out some of the storytelling aspects. It's somewhat of a ...

I agree. I find that using minor magical appliances is already being done, so I don't think it would be that far fetched to continue the tradition.

I point to bags of holding, Heward's Handy Havers ...

Smillan, don't let Mr. Spelloyal hear that stuff. Just last week he heard two gossipy mothers tutting at his window display saying the same thing! He spent a better half of the day up in his off ...

My first PostFest!

wow... awesome paint job on those figures! but yes... I'm having a hard time finding where the figures are... Cry

Do we need to search for them?

I came up with all sorts of confections for a menu. Here are my favorites:

Phostwood Ghosts - oblong bars of mallow mixed with extract of phostwood, so they glow in the dark. A crunchy cookie under ...

I'm really liking the suggestions and pointers in the right direction, having been away from my books for so long, it feels like old times. Lots of little threads to pull on and I really, really appre ...

I remember Return of the Jedi had been out, I was 9 and everyone was crazy about the toys. Me and two friends were really bored with that and one of my friends said let's play "D&D".

We ran in ...

Glad - totally digging your artwork as well, being a huge fan of anyone with some artistic ability and using it for illustrative purposes. Laughing

pdx - I would report that to Amazon if you could. ...

Awesome. Gives an excuse to get involved in that area - thank you!

I was extra excited today so I whipped up a sign that might hang on the outside of the shop and translate to letterhead or emblazo ...

Both Dragon issues are available on ebay - sweet!

And looking over my original boxed set - yep - right there is some native tree information. Maybe the Treasures of Greyhawk book might spark some m ...

Thanks for input and suggestion! I'll have to look for that coffee article. Any ideas are welcome.

Hrmm... I'm trying to put together a San Diego 2e game right now.

I'm cobbling together a campaign based around an adventuring company sponsored by an established and pioneering business in the City of Greyhawk - "Spelloyal's Confections" - to find and discover ingr ...

Thanks for the warm welcome and pointing me in the right direction!
I'm so glad this forum is here. It's a treasure trove of information. :D

Fantastic! Thank you so much.

Just out of curiosity - are there any floorplans/maps of Tenser's Fortess and where can they be found... or are we on our own there (ie. source material, website links)?

I want to use him as a majo ...

Since he split with the Circle of 8, he's now doing his own thing from his tower off the coast of Magepoint.

I was wondering if there are any maps/floor plans for his tower and any information abou ...