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from arab "chakyik" to english "brother"
Jacques

It looks like the translator app interpreted "chakyik" as the Arabic word "shaqiq."

As Scott pointed out in [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9572]this thread, it's likely the Wegwuir were named after the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w ...

When does the scene described in this previous post take place ?

The Witchwar was 500 years before the events of the adventure path. (The Snows of Summer, page 52; The Witch Queen's Revenge, pages ...

Most of this is from Pathfinder's Reign of Winter adventure path, and the correspondence between Earth and Golarion dates is based on that as well. Oerth and Midgard dates are based on what the "prese ...

I made a list of Keoish houses in this earlier thread: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5411

Here's a list of Suel houses: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/mo ...

Iggwilv kidnapped by Baba Yaga ? Who is her father ? A powerful character who protects her in the Feywild. Or a powerful character who entrusted Iggwilv to Baba Yaga.

I have my own ideas about Iggw ...

Are the Baernaloth "canon" in the world of Greyhawk?
Jacques

Why wouldn't they be? Oerth exists in the same multiverse as the planes detailed in sources like Hellbound: The Blood War and Faces ...

The last official write-up of Iggwilv that I am aware of was in The Savage Tide AP, wherein she is a 26th level Wizard/4th level Arch-Mage (30th level spell-caster) living in the Abyss to further her ...

There's something, believe it or not, not quite epic enough about the finalè I want to massage a little but am not quite sure how to do so: to wit, what are the real stakes for Oerth if the PCs f ...

I don't mind the hijack and I appreciate the answers!

Does anyone know if it's been listed with some of the events to prophesize the beginning of the age of worms is? I'd love to work that more int ...

Nowhere in either 1e or 3e do I see a nycadaemon ability that allows them interplanar travel. Word of Recall (1e) doesn't work across planes, nor does greater teleport (3e). 1eAD&D calls out tha ...

The nycadaemon certainly would know about Syrul and Saint Cyril, but my inclination is that, given the vagueness of his charge, he'd probably try to find just any old easy-to-kill Cyril before confron ...

What did he do? The player, on the spot and somewhat flustered, had his character send the nycadaemon off to "hunt down Cyril! We want vengeance on Cyril!"

Did they spell the name out?

If not, t ...

The other option I can think of is could relate to the Necropolis (can't recall the specific name) in what is now the Bright Desert where Kyuss first learned to make his worm zombies.

The Necrop ...

showing the boy being directed by a mysterious red-haired, green-eyed woman to enter a magical portal that transports him into a dark void only lit by his blazing blue eyes. A dark presence seemingly ...

But I also have elven fertility tied to Celene - elven maids have four cycles per year, and refer to the birth cohorts as 'children of summer', 'children of autumn', etc.

I was just thinking about ...

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

My argument for this:

-similarity to Greco-Roman goddess Artemis/Diana
-unicorn horn symbol doubling as lunar cresc ...

I use Ehlonna as the goddess of Luna and Sehanine as the goddess of Celene, and assume humans acknowledge both, though they may consider Pholtus, Rao, Lydia, or Lendor to be more important.

Many o ...

Thanks for your input, Rasgon, I knew I could count on you for some great ideas.

Do you have a favourite theory,

Well, I can discuss pros and cons.

The big problem with crediting ethergau ...

In Dragon #89, Llerg's "worshipers' alignment" is given as "Barbarians, berserkers, chaotic neutrals, some druids." Only one of these things is an actual alignment in the usual game sense of the term: ...

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?

Some possible ex ...

The uldra make sense in Telchuria, I thought.

The LGG (2000) echoes that statement... but made Cyndor a specifically Oeridian god.

Yes, the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer did that with a number of common deities. They made Myhriss Flan, they made B ...

Here's a dwarven home map: https://www.elventower.com/208-wealthy-dwarven-house/

Another theory I've loosely mulled over is with the earliest Suel people being survivors of an aboleth slave race but I can't remember right now what my reasons for that were!

I think ti was to do ...

Travel eastward across the Flanaess, presumably battling through the Suel nations of the Duchy and County of Urnst (which weren't called that until the Kingdom of Aerdy named them that)

The migrati ...

To switch it to Baklunish, there should then be significant Baklunish influence in the city. Even if the majority of the population were Oeridian, the art, architecture, the cities gods and major pla ...

An idea I've been playing with is that the Suel Imperium was much more multicultural and diverse than the Scarlet Brotherhood believes, including a Hong Kong-like colony in Suhfang/Shaofeng to the wes ...

Yeah, they just thought some of the material in Fate of Istus was bad, so they changed it.

It had become the orthodox position in TSR by the late 1980s that including the monk class in the base AD ...

Well, keep in mind that in the Fals Gap it would have been right in the path of the Oeridian migrations, and very likely would have become a majority Oeridian city at that point, regardless of who fou ...

That's an interesting background, Rasgon, though I am uncertain if the reference I quote below should instead say 'East' (toward Rauxes) instead of "West".

The lack of any safe communication with t ...

There's a thread The Lost City of Gaxmoor will soon be released as a generic D20 product
through Sovereign Stone Press. Here is the background as originally written
for The Greyhawk campaign.
THE L ...

I'm reminded of an old Dragon article in which a Dragonlance author said she got the hang of Flint Fireforge's voice by thinking of Yosemite Sam.

Other possibilities: Gordon Ramsey, Joe Pesci, Vern ...

Where is the reference to the Greysmere dwarves worshipping Ulaa? That’s interesting and I haven’t heard that before.

It's from the Greyhawk Player's Guide, page 62. It's one of the concepts Roger ...

This is really well done.

Good job, StylinLP38.

For what it's worth, here's a picture from https://i.ibb.co/N22sHhX/Celeneand-Luna.pnghttps://i.postimg.cc/pdKVWXrj/Celene-Luna.pnghttps://i.postimg.cc/RCgSVYSg/Celene-Lunare ...

The wilderness map in B2 The Keep on the Borderlands is perfect for Bale Keep, by the way, complete with nearby fens and lizard men.

Thanks, rasgon. Yeah, I guess Sargent forgot what he’d done in From the Ashes when he was working on Ivid and reverted to the F13 from the Gazetteer. Still, W11/T5 is a quite unusual combination for A ...

Where in From the Ashes is Basmajian Arras listed as a W11/T5? That’s an unlikely (though not impossible) class combination in AD&D 2E.

It's on the "Nations of the Flanaess" reference card (Ref ...

Well, Carl Sargent wrote both sources, so they're both his version of Basmajian Arras.

If it's not an error (and it might well be), it's likely Carl Sargent thought better of his original version a ...

So what would that make the Tiger Nomads?

Kipchak maybe? Chakyik=Kipchak

I think you've solved it.

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 ...

If 1500 are born every 1500 years, that's an average of 1 per year, right? Then you have to account for those who die of disease, violence, childbirth, hippogriff accidents, potion immiscibility, and ...

I love the idea, but at first blush I think Stillsong is too beneficent to be Dorgha Torgu. Do you think that’s part of his penance? Because of the great Evil he wrought, he’s now Neutral Good instead ...

In Oerth Journal #12 (Spring, 2001), Gary Gygax described a "fallen deity" named Dorgha Torgu, who had once been the greater Baklunish god of "Material Dimensions, Material Elements" until he helped p ...

It'd probably be easiest to just make the second floor identical to the first, then. I'd give the chapel a high ceiling, so that it's as tall as both stories put together, and just give the rest of th ...

I know absolutely nothing about this character, but if you're going to convert her to your preferred system/edition anyway, you might as well design her yourself according to the needs of your campaig ...

It appears in the main fortress the only way upstairs is the staircase in area #8. Does that kind of suggest that the second floor might not be all that big—maybe just overtop areas 2 & 7? Or wou ...

O starborn gods, coalescing Astral forces
The sun and moons bind you to Order's truth!
Once you ruled us as powers and principalities
Till Pholtus returned from the supernal spheres!

Indulging ...

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

O Blinding Light! Blind us to temptation!
Overwhelm our sight for in blindness do we see!
O starborn gods, coalescing Astral forces
The sun an ...

I like the idea of the "dimension of probability" that separates parallel worlds.

I do wonder about the astral/ethereal dimensions, though. The Inner Planes and Outer Planes are usually drawn as a ...

Well, if the question is about a main setting book, I think the focus should be on present day characters the PCs are likely to frequently encounter.

I wouldn't bother with major rulers, then, exce ...

The things to keep in mind are that, if you follow the outline of the original, the emperor dies without a suitable heir, and a civil war between the two religious factions is stopped by a divine si ...

In the earliest days of humanity, all humans lived in the city of Desh, which was shaped like a rectangle and surrounded by tall walls. Originally Desh had only been a single room, but when the famili ...

4e's Open Grave was already mentioned in this thread as a source, but I just noticed that book details a character called "Osterneth, the Bronze Lich." Osterneth "is an ancient lich from a kingdom los ...

Greyhawk has the advantage of having an entire Outer Planes to draw from, so making the extraplanar entity involved a deity, demon, devil, daemon, or demodand is up to the DM.

I think Graz'zt wou ...

Perhaps Slerotin's apprentices (three in number) happened to be descendants of the technically extinct House Urnst?

The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer said: "The main body of Suloise migrants passed th ...

I noticed that The Scarlet Brotherhood, on page 3, has Kevelli Mauk and his students encounter "two minor noble Suel houses that had passed through Slerotin's Tunnel several years earlier, and the enl ...

So a Medegia can be like a Sicilian pizza

Greyhawk pizza is Chicago style.
Dyvers pizza is Detroit style.

I thought I'd write an explainer about these mysterious entities, since the novels they're from are hard to find and there's not much online.

Proctor Chronos, Madame Tolerance, and Master Entropy a ...

Does anyone have any non-ghoul caster undead? Priestly, preferably. I'm just not sure what I want to go with.

Mummy priest of Orcus: https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/mummy-priest-of-orcus ...

Darakhul high priestess: https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/ghoul-darakhul-high-priestess/
A high priestess of Vecna, this intelligent ghoul teaches her flock that secrets are best discovered by ...

I hadn't heard of [url=https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/144820/YoonSuin]Yoon-Suin before; it looks interesting.

I was thinking of putting [url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/mahasarpa.pdf]th ...

Just a rough attempt at mapping real life cultures on to southeastern Oerik in what I think is a sensible way (based on https://i.postimg.cc/SNsgXvqD/Southeast-Oerik.png

Sam Weiss's article "Za'aith Ruaala: The Olven Kingdom of Asternyx" in Oerth Journal #22 also covers some history and context for the City of Summer Stars, and might be worth looking at.

I tried to look up published adventures with similar ideas:

But something has gone terribly wrong. Refugees from Myereth, terrified and confused, are flooding into other elven cities. They speak of ...

The City of the Summer Stars (Pocket Domain)

On the Demiplane of Dread known to some as Ravenloft, in Darkon’s Forest of Shadows, one can sometimes come across tribes of bronze-skinned humans, gari ...

What about the "Inner Plane Probability Lines (the 7th dimension)" referenced in Unearthed Arcana under Hierophant Druid?

I thought I remembered--and it might be from the Gord the Rogue series--tha ...

Where exactly in TAB does it say that? My copy is literally in tatters and I can't remember that reference.

Page 7, left column, under the "The Center of Magic" heading.

Kieren Jalucian may or ...

Well, CruelSummerLord’s comment brings me to my next question: What is actually known about the Society of the Magi? and maybe I should blow that up instead?

The Society of Magi is a politically ...

"Sorcerous Societies of the Flanaess" by Gary Holian in Oerth Journal #3 is worth looking at.

According to Fate of Istus, Verbobonc has a guild called the Silver Consortium, which includes mages, a ...

Did you enjoy the Black Moon Chronicles (BMC)?

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 ...

There was an http://img.over-blog.com/600x450/0/12/14/75/map-01.jpg

The comics themselves (which I read for the first time a month or so ago) don't have any continental maps as such, though there a ...

Alhaster got a lot of detail in Dungeon #131's "The Prince of Redhand" and "Backdrop: Alhaster." In that issue, Alhaster looks like [url=https://boardgamegeek.com/image/5639163/dungeon-issue-131-feb-2 ...

I had the idea of mapping the Known World nations on to the map of the Flanaess to make more room (because the Known World is very small).

https://i.postimg.cc/GtnMqZk0/mystarahawk.png

Wendar: C ...

Follow up Q: so is there anywhere in any sort of D&D canon, like even for another "D&D"-based world like the Forgotten Realms or Golarion, where the nature of the gods is elucidated? Like what ...

Anyone know of a thorough treatment regarding the origins of the Oerth deities? That is, which god/desses are/were human-ish beings that ascended to godhood, which are "powers" in the universe that we ...

The spell draw upon holy might from 2nd edition's Tome of Magic specified that the holy water used in the spell had to be blessed by a high priest of the character's faith, but doesn't specify that th ...

1) Holy Water and Unholy Water is faith specific, meaning that holy (and unholy) water created by a cleric of Trithereon, Pelor, Hextor, Iuz, etc. can ONLY be used by members of that faith, and nobody ...

Emerald Lake (not mentioned on Darlene's Map) located at the source of the Hool River

This is the same as Lake Spendlowe, which is shown to be the source of the Hool River in UK2 The Sentine ...

We know what happened to Thrommel—he's in a coffin in the Inky Chamber beneath the Temple of Elemental Evil, disguised as a vampire—but not why. Who were his kidnappers? What were their aims? Was it M ...

Zilchus v. Kurell
Olidammara v. Kurell
Hextor v. Erythnul
Gruumsh v. Maglubiyet
Garl v. Kurtelmak
Baphomet v. Yeenoghu
Lolth v. Zuggtmoy
Mephistopheles v. Baalzebul
Graz'zt v. Raxivort
Iuz v ...

My best guess from the description in Artifact of Evil is that the Lost City of the Suel in the Suss is a pre-Suel, pre-Flan, probably pre-human ruin the migrations-era Suel built over and occupied fo ...

accidentally omitted Wenta and miscatagorized Raxivort as an Oeridian deity.
Raxivort's categorization wasn't an error. TSR policy in the early nineties prevented Sargent from mentioning out-of-print ...

As I said in From the Ashes accidentally omitted Wenta and miscatagorized Raxivort as an Oeridian deity.

Since Andy Miller was using From the Ashes as his source, he took the reference card at its ...

What happened was that the "Powers of Greyhawk" reference card in From the Ashes accidentally omitted Wenta and miscatagorized Raxivort as an Oeridian deity.

When he was writing his Oeridian deitie ...

According to the City of Greyhawk boxed set (Folk, Feuds, & Factions, page 42), members of the guild are expected to pay 10% of their incomes to the guild.

The 2nd edition Den of Thieves acces ...

I've read WG7 and I'm not offended by your comment. I did read how someone else had a good time with it and I'm glad he and his friends did.

Positive review:

I think you mean this one: https:/ ...

The temple of Zilchus in Leukish was razed because the clerics refused to pay Justinian’s exorbitant temple tax.

I think clerics of Zilchus aren't required to respect taxes that will ruin them (and ...

I think the god of "Power, Prestige, Money, Business, and Influence" is as much a god of government as he is a god of commerce.

Further, I don't think that government and commerce are entirely sepa ...

The description in Exemplars of Evil states that Tolstoff Keep is "at the edge of a large, stinking swamp" so it'd make sense to place it at the edge of the Mistmarsh.

Is there any reason not to us ...

So this genius mastermind's plan to separate people from their powerful magic is to lure them into a maze full of nigh-impossible riddles that many people might just use their magic to simply hack ...

Very interesting. The link seems to be dead though.

It's hosted here now: https://greyhawkonline.com/gordmain/

"The man who would become Warnes Starcoat was born..." is such a strange phrasing. If you're going to be precious and emphasize that he wasn't who he'd eventually grow to be, I think it's more likely ...

...so what's the premise of Lyzandred's crypts? I Googled the module and it implies Lyzandred has some underlying scheme in mind.

Lyzandred is an ancient Baklunish survivor of Suloise atrocities, a ...

I've been slowly reworking my 3.5 ToEE conversion. The last time I ran it I had the players start in Verbobonc instead of having them ride up from the Wild Coast. But I was just wondering why Gygax w ...

Heck I suspect "Lyzandred" is a partial anagram of Reynold's name.

Probably not, since Carl Sargent first named the character (and established his love of puzzles) in From the Ashes (Campaign Book ...

Hm. could use them.

(The date comes from Return to White Plume Mountain, page 4, which says the Brotherhood stole Blackrazor, Whelm, Wave, and Frostrazor from beneath White Plume Mountain "some one ...

It's worth looking at [url=http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_castle.html]grodog's Greyhawk Castle Archive for ideas.

I started another thread back in 2007: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2507

...where I detailed my interpretations of those five worlds. I wrote that be ...