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

Yes, you can, because yes, you do. Well, presuming you bother to acquire and read at least one of the setting books. Those of us start ...

...I always enjoyed the Ecology of... articles because they helped my suspension of disbelief by providing a fantasy equivalent of a biology lesson on the various monsters.

-I use those as refere ...

...I guess some of the more enigmatic figures (like Philidor the Blue and Cobb Darg) would be hard to do without major spoilers...

-You could offer a host of different options:

http://www. ...

...I rull a Urnst campain and i was wondering about the coherence of the NPS levels in the world. To be clear, how many 16+ clerics can be found in this country, the same for mages and so on..

...S ...

...Maybe one approach might be to decide that the elevation of a mortal to demigod of a particular alignment permits the elevation of an oppositionally-aligned demigod, and then the question would b ...

...If a graduate course costs more than an undergraduate course, then schools are indeed charging the experienced person more than an inexperienced person...

1) That's not "level";

2) FWIW, it's ...

...Tell me, if you use the training rules, how do the trainers know how much to charge for the training if nobody knows what level they are?

-IRL, we don't charge people based on their level, we ch ...

He does not. The DM does...

-But a the NPC should limit himself to what the NPC would know, just as the PC should be limited by what the player would know. On one hand, the PC might get off easy, i ...

...The spammer account bumped up the thread,

-Hooray for spam? Laughing

"Hand of the Highwayman" allows a DM to tolerate the takeover while preserving Restenford:
https://www.valdier.com/ ...

...As the PCs stand in line to enter the city, a slickly dressed individual approaches them and offers to sell them Law Insurance. What is "Law Insurance"? A policy to protect them from legal entangle ...

...Sorry it's taken me a while to get around to doing this. They're a bit cobbled together but should be sufficient as a rough comparison;

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/10/7e/f8/107ef8cd8d3dc0f38a6 ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons:_Honor_Among_Thieves

Forgotten realms. I suppose I'll see it someday.

...I consider the Oeridians and Suloise to have polytheistic pantheons, while the Old Faith of the Flan is more a single religion, with Beory being the center of it, and Pelor and Nerull being opposed ...

...Several greater gods are mentioned:
...Zarad the Scholar (Boccob)...

-Could "The Scholar" be Delleb?

...Many Local Gods (lesser gods): two or three per city...

-Demi-Gods or Hero-Deitie ...

...These Google Spreadsheets

-I just added them to my pre-existing DD Greyhawk/Misc./Names file.
This was already there: http://ebon.pyorre.net/
...but seems to be defunct.

Complaints about the allegedly "low" populations of the Flanaess have always bothered me somewhat because they don't account for the fact that all the many, many other races and monsters (guesstimatin ...

...I have found that foreign names - especially from old, no longer spoken - languages make for great additions to the game. I have used Latin, Old English, Norse, Hebrew, Celtic, Amerind, and others ...

I didn't vote. None of the categories exactly fit what I do, which (since 2005 or so) is to use the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, although that often amounts to either choice 2 or choice 3. I assume that ...

...I admit I have been a fan of Mr Bloch's writing and gaming style ever since I saw his article on the Pomarj in Dragon Issue 167 (that is a must read for all Greyhawk fans)...

...later incorporat ...

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...

-When I DM'ed N4 Treasure Hun ...

I don't remember any mention of cataracts in the description of any river in the Flanaess. If there was one, it would make the river unnavigable at that point and would require a portage point, or may ...

Admission: I don't like Tolkien, so elves going to an island has no special place in my heart...

-The Dragon 65 article was Gygax, or maybe Kuntz, neither of whom were overly beholden to Tolkien.

...caught it again. Laughing

...Perhaps the People of the Testing follow an evil deity/demon lord and are following its will. But they're taking a page from the Scarlet Brotherhood and putting a facade of "Oh we're doing this ...

I've been looking through the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer again, and I find it strange how a seemingly good-aligned group dedicated to a seemingly good-aligned goddess (Sehanine Moonbow) and Seldarine a ...

...I'd love to hear if any your campaigns have featured a Guild of Stonemasons...

-IIRC, the Dungeon adventure paths for either Cauldron or Sessarine featured important NPCs from a stonemason's gui ...

I think you could just as easily do a Robin Hood type scenario in the Gnarley, substituting say Glodreddi for Sir Guy, the Lord Mayor as Prince John.

-I think this is the best option, if you're try ...

... I suspect you're correct that the Viscount's sympathy to the Church would essentially make this a government matter, and involve the military.

-Whoa, whoa, whoa!

One thing to remember is tha ...

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...How stupid does the queen have to be to deal with a few anonymous agents that have no loyalty to Nyrond for something so unbelievably sensitive? Shouldn't she hire agents that have more basis for b ...

...I know it came from Gary Gygax, but frankly I think it's preposterous that the Scarlet Brotherhood would even reveal itself that way to an Oeridian-majority nation like Nyrond, much less act as glo ...

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... In the world of Dungeons & Dragons, how does a queen just die in her 50s?

...The Queen of Nyrond is hardly the only example...

-I do a lot of Ratik, and I have always wondered about Lex ...

...The Marklands (or later), leading me to believe she died when he was young... She must’ve lived long enough to instill that faith in Cunal...

-A reasonable supposition, but if she died earlier, ...

...The living Greyhawk adventure CORS2-02 Isles of Woe allows the players to explore an ancient library the mage-priests used before their islands were lost...

-IIRC, this was also mentioned in Dun ...

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 ...

...reading DRAGON 63 surprises me: "The current attempt to dismember the Iron League, with the counter-action in South Province, seems to place Almor in an unavoidable position where she can do little ...

...To clarify, just in case, I was curious what the commoner knows. If, for example, a Player Character entered the Inn of The Welcome Wench, stuck up a conversation with a group of natives, and aske ...

I often find that many settings forget to emphasize how the commoner fits into the world...

-Oooh, Yummy! This is the sort of thing I think is underdone.

For this discussion, I will assume that ...

I believe it was in a Dungeon Magazine adventure, but it may have been in Rary, the Traitor, the desert nomads were called something like, "Twaregs". Later, I discovered that there is a real desert n ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII

This is a nice (and attractive) presentation. The info' of the troops' appearance is helpful.

1) Could you discuss sources? How much of it comes from canonical sources, how much is historical analo ...

Who's got the best motive for a long game?

Simply making a connection to the kids, and making them more susceptible to temptation, may well be the the immediate goal. These sort of toys are not for ...

...Obviously, the nycadaemon is going to fail and be tortured into revealing what happened and then destroyed (probably?). I'd like to hear opinions on exactly what actions the goddess should take a ...

... I'll have the incarnate player roll a d6, without telling him why. The d6 will determine what the nycadaemon does:

1-2) seek out and attack St. Ceril the Relentless, presumably in Matinsmore, ...

...Since the nycadaemon can polymorph self and has genius intelligence, I doubt it'll go on a rampage...

-If it was inclined to go on a public rampage, would it have been down in the sewers, harass ...

... Second Question:

I am using the old mine manager building from the Wormfood article in Dragon. The Whispering Cairn is on the property of an old mine that went belly up 50 years ago. The prev ...

Instead of starting a new thread, I'll just use this one...

I finally got L3 through drivethrurpg.

The module got garbled along the almost 20 year publication path (20% of it, according to Len ...

Hah! Caught it again before typing. I'm actually getting used to looking at the clue instead of just typing "Boccob". End of an era...
Laughing

One thing I like about 5E is that there is no longer a requirement for clerics to be within one step of their deity's alignment. In fact, there are few alignment requirements anywhere in the game.

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The original Dungeon #30 adventure "Ghazal", and the much later Dungeon/Polyhedron article in May 2003, have the inhabitants as Lawful Evil, but worshipping Llerg. That makes no sense. Either make the ...

Besides Fate of Istus, there's a brief mention of Urnst troops in "Glacial Inferno"...
I'll get to some of the other stuff when I get the chance...

-Two (short-lived) survivors from "a small compa ...

Hah! I caught it before I even tried to answer! Maybe because the cue was rather long, the difference was noticeable. Wink

...Looking forward to seeing what other theories the CF! community might come up with.

-I'm sure Rasgon will have something to add... Laughing

...We know that Vecna's Rotted Tower was near present-day Shiboleth. Why did Vecna choose to live there and not in the Tower of Silence, since it clearly existed during his reign?
...
...why would ...

Wemics are found in Hepmonaland, according to the encounter tables in The Scarlet Brotherhood...

-Ah! I forgot about that.

...Non-canonically, I have a few small tribes of hybsils roaming the ...

Is there any canonical use of the hybsil, wemic, or uldra anywhere in the Flanaess? On Oerth? I seem to remember a discussion about the uldra, but can't find it. If not, this could be a place to discu ...

...The second main adventure is Death on the Reik (adventure 3).... I am not sure if taking any of them wholesale quite works; some were very high level. But the personalities and names are there fo ...

Welcome!

What edition do you play now?

Sorry for the shameless 2e plug, but check out the Complete Book of Dwarves for any ideas regarding dwarven culture, customs, attitudes, and the like...

-I still consult it. Most of it is universal ...

I hate to start a thread for such a small topic, but other than a little mention in the first paragraph in "Best Defense" (RTK1-01), and the fact that it's located on Anna's map, is there anything on ...

Just trying to work out the dates that these four adventures are set as well as Priestly Secrets in Dungeon #71...

L1 to L4 all should take place before 583CY when the elves of the Northern Isles e ...

Although I have DM'ed in Gran March, I never tried to seriously detail it's military. But like Ratik, I assumed that universal military service would result in a largely percentage of "fighter" types ...

Around 579 CY, there were "more than" 2,000 soldiers stationed in Leukish. Most were typically 0 level (presumably men@arms status), sergeants and lieutenants tended to be 3rd level fighters, and capt ...

Anything else, Longetalos?

I lost the country cards from the Greyhawk Wars game long ago (over 20 years?), but IIRC, Gran March had 1 heavy cavalry, 3 medium cavalry, and 1 light cavalry counters. ...

The LG Duchy of Urnst team published a 34-page book on the Ducal Guard meta-org...

Ducal Guard infantry are designed to be highly versatile and adaptable. They typically have the front line wieldi ...

I'd love to see a fresh take on Exag. Hated the super boring Paizo treatment.

...well, there's always the Rose Estes version...

Wink

The Order of the Fire Hawk set up at Tarth Moorda in the Abbor Alz sometimes during the late 570s. It is the principal training source for Urnst's warmages.

In 591/593: 52 x Students (1st level); 8 ...

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This is what i used for the Gran March.

Army ranks:
Infantry and Archers
• L ...

...Wegwiur = Uyghur. Duh. Everything fits historically. The name has been in my face for almost 40 years, and I just made the connection today.

-I remember noticing it a few years ago. It's not as ...

...I'm interested to know what it is about Stoink that captures interest?...

-The Lake Geneva crew had Stoink detailed. IIRC, they were supposed to publish it back in the 1980s. As usual, they neve ...

Duchy of Urnst Meta-Org Book:Ducal Guard (see separate book)
The Ducal Guard is the standing army of the Duchy and answers directly to the Duke of Urnst. It has a strength on paper of some 6800 men i ...

The LG Duchy of Urnst team published a 34-page book on the Ducal Guard meta-org...

-Wow. Ok. THAT would be "detailed". Thanks!

...here are the ranks they used:

Guard
Guard-at-Arms
Petty Ser ...

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-I guess that's him. Sad. I didn't know a ...

...Reading the start of Natural Selection I think it implies the Royal Pathwardens were already established by 581CY and that rather than creating them to assist the druids of the Celadon the Duke red ...

To the tune of "O Holy Night" (Adolphe Adam, 1847)...

-I always assumed that "Oh Blinding Light" was to the tune of "Amazing Grace"... Wink

Royal Pathwardens of the Celadon: Formed 581 CY.

Reading the start of Natural Selection I think it implies the Royal Pathwardens were already established by 581CY and that rather than creat ...

Besides Fate of Istus, there's a brief mention of Urnst troops in "Glacial Inferno", From the Ashes mentions the elite Baer Rampant cavalry, and Urnst troops on the Domain of Greyhawk's eastern border ...

...Royal Pathwardens: Led by Lucien Dedermont. From 582CY their HQ is at Dedermont Keep in the Celadon Forest. Insignia – a 'P' encircled by a wreath. Each warden wears a silver signet ring bearing th ...

An attempt to continue the series from my Archbarony of Ratik effort:

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Now, I've never DMed in Urnst, played in Urnst, ...

I put in "oerth" four different times, and couldn't figure out the problem. Then I actually read the cue... Laughing

...I found strange that 18 distint houses inhabit a non-capital city. I can expect it in the Imperial Capital.

-Besides the possibility of pre-planning that Rasgon offers, it could simply mean that ...

A short thread on Dragonsfoot:

https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=73446&sid=9be4bc77d7b1829ced79deb50a0e90e2

We can probably discern a lot of the cuisine of different human cultures by examining their real-life cultures...

-The Suel would, like their real-life Scandinavian counterparts, probably enjoy a l ...

...It's interesting. I've been meaning to post about it here. I did enjoy it. It's... a weird, sometimes frustrating story. The protagonist, Wismerhill, makes all of the wrong choices—he starts out as ...

I'm working on the background of a character who served in the Nyrond militia during the Greyhawk wars...

...I just noticed that this was back in 2005, so this is a little late ( Laughing

), but ...

I'm working on the background of a character who served in the Nyrond militia during the Greyhawk wars.

I know that during that time, the different provincial armies had differing compositions.... ...

...Ogon Tillit is a cleric, the ruler of a nation of clerics, so why haven't the wounds he suffered in Tenh healed? ...

-I thought LG turned it into a slow-motion assassination thru' poisoning?

...

...So my question is - What do you think the great mysteries of Greyhawk are?

My examples to get the ball rolling:

...What is the mysterious backstory and heritage of Cobb Darg, Mayor of the Cit ...

...That said, there's no reason Imperial-era Suel couldn't have colonies in the Flanaess or other continents, worlds, or planes. It doesn't mean they necessarily ruled any of the land between the colo ...

...Here is some of the setting description:

Unska and Bogran are human settlements...

"You might place the village of Unska in any remote mountainous region..."

"The Black mountain that rea ...

...There is an entire Lost City of the Suel in the northern Suss forest so that according to published material the Suel were very active in the area.

-I don't remember the city's age from Artifac ...

Oerth's magic apparently runs in ley-lines where magic is enhanced or stronger... it might be interesting to trace...

I'm not sure what interpretation would be best. Should ley-lines be eternal, wi ...

...The main perk PC thieves get from joining the guild in City of Greyhawk, besides not being killed by the guild for freelancing (if caught a second time), is free training, which might not be releva ...

Praytell, then, what you think upon which side of this debate you believe the clergy falls, in general. For, or against, taxes, as part of the portfolio of Zilchus...

-To sum it up, it would depen ...

I am wondering if there has ever been an article or supplement that detailed the military ranks in use in the Great Kingdom or Ahlissa. In particular, I'm curious about the Glorioles Army and the Army ...

A more formalized ranking system is one of those anomalies from real-life medieval Europe that I can accept in the Flanaess, with titles such as Sergeant, Colonel, Admiral and General...

-13th and ...

If you're looking for Old School , references, I don't have it on me right now, but Kuntz's article in Dragon #59 (March 1982) “The Great Kingdom and the Knights of Doom”, mentions a few Great Kingdo ...

...One very important bit of Greyhawk lore in the article, however, is that Sean K. Reynolds reconciled the story of Olidammara being captured by Zagyg with the idea that Olidammara wasn't one of the ...

I don't have my sources with me, so bear with me...

...Pyremius: Well, first of all, what does it say about Suel culture that they believe the goddess of hearth-fire, Ranet, can be poisoned and usu ...