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Thank you, rasgon! Very high praise. I really should try and finish part 3 some day.

I made Mayaheine appear in the form of a mortal being in a state of something like possession b ...

Long time no see, everyone. I really like Rasgon's thinking on this although I'd go further (or maybe this was Rasgon's intention) and view the matriarchal society of Hardby as the fusion during the G ...

So what would that make the Tiger Nomads?

Kipchak maybe? Chakyik=Kipchak

I also had not made the Wegwuir= Uyghur connection until now.

Mentioned in "Campaign Holidays: by Andy Miller, Dragon Annual #4, 1999, "Brewfest 4. This first day of Autumn marks the point where the sun crosses the equator from north to south, indicating that fa ...

Doesn't exist in Dragon or any other source that I know of. Always thought it was weird that Raxivort was included in these articles.

Looks like everyone else has covered it pretty thoroughly. The only thing I would add is that I think the stipend would be distributed by the Order.

The Order's money would likely come from rents f ...

Nice, Jason! When I ran a version of A1 I gender-switched Brother Kerin and had them fight Sister Kerin because I had found an excellent illustration of what looked like a red-haired female Suloise mo ...

I missed it the first time in the LG Onnwal Gazetteer that the Onnwi did indeed sail from the Pomarj, so my guess about the Jeklea Bay area was wrong.

In the stuff I've been writing recently about ...

The migrating houses agreed to pool their resources, though these would primarily be the Neheli, Rhola, and Linth, who had the most formidable spellcasters. Two exceptions were the Malhel and the Zelr ...

I can't remember the source, but there was also a reference to Lokireme, the Lawful. Not so sure if this had any degree of seriousness, though.

Are you thinking of Lokerimon the Lawful? It's from ...

Does anyone know what the symbol on Tenh's heraldry is? I can't find it amongst the glyphs in the Guide to the World of Greyhawk but it looks kind of anthropomorphic to me.

I consider the modern Fl ...

Wow! This is quite a find. I had no idea this was in there and obviously need to read Return to the Keep on the Borderlands more closely. I know some of the later B modules were set in Mystara B2 was ...

I don't have my materials in front of me but I believe it was due to the Silent Ones wanting to control how magic was practiced. I think this was mainly due to the Mahel having rebelled and delving in ...

Sorry I'm coming to this late. Just saw your comment on my Aerdi History blog. Thanks for the feedback!
I'd probably go in a totally different direction with Ettin's Mound and I see that Rasgon has s ...

The ancient flying city could be related to the City of the Gods, which can be anything from a crashed spaceship to the remnants of an ancient magical steampunk-type civilization. The latter would see ...

I immediately thought of Gorellik since he is almost forgotten.

Wow! I should check in to CF! more frequently. Glad this discussion helped warm you up to Sasserine and Cauldron. I had planned on taking my campaign there as part of a reworked Savage Tide back when ...

Anyway, before I get too far off track, is there a time line for modules so that I can limit myself to just 576 CY? I want to star there and use bits of the newer (ha – 25 years plus) stuff as seems ...

Dracula in Romainian is Draculea so the 'e' is there already with that spelling.

As a resource toward that end, has anyone attempted to map languages onto the Flanaess? Has anyone specified further dialects of the languages (beyond the WoG boxed set and LGG specifications)?

Thi ...

The Battle of Voll was merciless, The Flying Pig-Fish ate the souls of six Suel wizards...

This rules!

Why are the Common Deities not part of a cultural group? Who do they belong to? Are they themselves linked together as are the Suel Gods, a pantheon? Where do they come from with regards to the gre ...

This is excellent!

One cool aside in relation to this, in 201 CY the planet Borka was destroyed in the big space war between the Elves and Goblins (forgetting the name of it) and its destruction was observed by astrolog ...

Rasgon did an entry on dogs in the Monsters of Oerth thread he started back in 2011. He also listed some references that might be interesting to look into.

It's near the bottom of the page.

http ...

Yeshirs are hounds that were bred in the last centuries of the Suloise Empire for hunting Halflings, whose meat was considered a delicacy by the Suel nobility. The migrant Suel houses brought yeshir w ...

Was reading the Coins and Scrolls blog (Worth checking out if you're not familiar) and a campaign outline they brainstorming made me think of Orcreich. It involves the Alexander Romance, which is a fa ...

As far as it being a town, that's speculation on Jason's part unless he knows something we don't. Though that does make sense.

Jason's index is the most comprehensive index available. If you don't have it you can download it here -- https://melkot.com/mechanics.html

Beyond that, asking old timers is the best way to find th ...

I say do what fits the narrative best. Don't be afraid to mix it up, if that's what works for you. Don't forget that the UK has three different legal systems.
IMC the more Suloise-influenced province ...

River of Blood is a nice little introductory adventure that takes place in the City, although it's LG, so it would be hard to find a copy unless you know someone you can borrow it from.

Going through what material I have available, I found some info on Urrakbek, which is in the Southern Pass in in the southwestern Yeomanry. It's a Dwarven community described as both a town and villag ...

I know the LG triad had a pretty detailed map, which is probably where Ann got a lot of her locations from. If she doesn't have all the details you need, try crowd-sourcing it here. Some of us live fo ...

Anyone have any experience running a scenario where the members of the party are taking part in a large scale battle?

If so, what worked? What didn't? Any other advice/experiences?

I'm thinking ...

Glad you guys liked the idea. Yes, it would have made it easier to move the slaves out if one of the party members hadn't tried to murder an NPC that they hired while they were still in the sea caves ...

Might a scything axe would be the equivalent of a pole axe?

A hand catapult sounds like a hand crossbow, but I definitely like the imagery of the old wrist rockets some kids down the street had (it ...

Solid numbers I could find.

Before the wars, sourced from a series of articles on Greyhawk in a number of earlier Dragon magazines.

Almor's Relmor Bay fleet (under joint Nyrondal command) consi ...

When I first started playing D&D everyone created their own maps, generally using coloring pencils. When the WOG was published with the Darlene maps how did you proceed to add to the maps? Did you ...

Nice review Luz. I used an adapted Lowdown as a lead-in to A1 by connecting location 22 in Lowdown with location 9 in the Sewer Level of A1. Of course I had to reverse one of the maps to get it to fit ...

Using an adaptation of "The Brinewall Legacy", the first adventure from Pathfinder's Jade Regent adventure path, and setting it in the Wild Coast. It should segue into part of the Savage Tide AP or (s ...

Good job, Mort!

Hey, whatever happened to Kevont, the Prelate of Almor?

Sweet! Good job getting this going CF! staff!

Anyone else listening to this podcast. It's hilarious! Three brothers and their dad playing a D&D campaign, and they're all really funny guys. My only warning is that the language is pretty salty, ...

I'm getting asked for a Dropbox login. Besides that, very happy to hear this. Thanks to all you guys who are doing the work to keep Oerth Journal alive! Can't wait to see it. Happy

There's also Daragor, from Monster Mythology. http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Daragor

Just general political wrangling could lead to all kinds of RP interactions. Even if the Marchioness has no clue of Verbane's ambitions, there still has to be an active faction opposed to her rule as ...

Both Chokestone and the Causeway of Fiends/Isle of Lost Souls are within fairly easy travel distance of Edge Field. Both in Ivid, and there's a good article online about the latter. http://www.wizards ...

... yes, even the gods of chaos imposed their own various brands of "order" upon things!

This was all good, but I especially like this point. Chaos may be chaos. but it's definitely not nothingnes ...

Thanks for all the responses and posts in this thread! It spurred me to finally nail down the cosmology and something like a concrete cosmology and timeline for the Age Before Ages and imprisonment of ...

Interesting model! That's the main reason why I've adopted the cosmology that I describe above, because it's hard enough for me to reconcile all the different pantheons of Oerth to my satisfaction, mu ...

Good points all, especially Rasgon on the differences between the natures of Tharizdun as given in canon and the Far Realm (entropic vs. alien). The route I'm going for my campaign is the opposite, ty ...

In your campaign, what is the deal with Tharizdun? This is kind of a free form spitballing thing, and the following questions are meant more to stir discussion on what your opinion is than delve for h ...

I've been looking for this but can't find what the sources are on the pact between the gods not to act directly in the affairs of Oerth that has been discussed before. The closest thing I've found is ...

If there are actual stats provided for these type of people it has eluded me and would love to be pointed in the right direction.

So please share how you handle the descriptions of hillmen and oth ...

Thanks!

Why the alternate ethereal planes? I know you didn't originate this, Rasgon, just thought there might have been an explanation.

That's a nice site.

Not a GH specific post, but a good source nonetheless. If you need high quality coats of arms for NPCs, etc ... a good source is the List of Communes of France in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/w ...

I might go with 200 x 200 squares. That looks to match the scale of the Slavers map better.

In 5e they specify 2 gp a day, so that's about the standard for your basic mercenary equivalent to a guard. I usually negotiate these as part of the roleplaying. The mercs my party hired to go into Hi ...

There's this highly detailed pdf map that seems to conform to the map from Slavers. Not sure what the source is, but judging from the name it's LG related, maybe the official triad map. http://web.arc ...

I could see something like this more as a twisted version of the established cult(s) of an existing god, similar to what I understand the case to be with the Pholtan theocracy in the Bandit Kingdom of ...

I could give it a read for you. PM me and I'll give you my email when you're ready. I started an html based chronology some time ago which has sadly fallen to the wayside, but I've so far included mai ...

Great list! Thanks for all your work, Vestcoat.

In the LGG, Kord is the most favored god in all the Barbarian kingdoms. Not that that translates to hosting the most powerful cleric, but it could inform whatever you decide to go with.

I don't know how many of you follow the comedic WTF, D&D? series of articles on the web, but they finally included a Greyhawk reference. http://www.thebadguyswin.com/2015/12/wtf-dd-the-monsters-of ...

Here's some notes I made on the Original Petty Gods gods a while ago, before the revised and expanded edition was released:

Arolohnso, god of the undercity (of Dyvers?) A deified form of Dyvers' or ...

Interesting notes, especially the last two.

I'm assuming something closer to 576 than the LG era. Do you see any connections between the slave-taking by the Yellow Sails and the Slavelords (IMC th ...

Cairo is 315' above sea level and at about the 1000 mile mark along the Mississippi. I think I calculated the Nye Dyv to be about 250 or so miles up from the Selintan's mouth although that was based o ...

sundews are frequently described as “… mounds of grey-green tarry ropes or rags,” paired with the cloth-like appearance of the adherer’s dirty white “skin,” the similarities between adherers and sunde ...

The only other mention in LG: Keoland I found was a reference to a Trithereonite anarchist group in Cryllor, in KEO7-05 Face of the Scourge, but I found the plot confusing so I'm not quite sure what t ...

From LG Keoland 596 CY Meta Org book...
-So this is something that happens in 595 or 596?

590. Here's what's written in KEO1-01 March Through Keoland. It's at the beginning of the adventure in a s ...

The first reference I found is all the way back in KEO1-01 March through Keoland, so I suspect it was Triad backstory and not an adventure outcome.

More detail on this: The ban was on the temple of ...

Just speculation, but whoever wrote the Trithereon riots into the LG: Keoland timeline could have been working off of this from the adventure "Setting Sun" in DNG# 73, "In 5249 SD (-267 CY), Priests a ...

It's magic! Happy

-Aaarghhhhhh! Aaarghhhhhh! Aaarghhhhhh! Aaarghhhhhh! Aaarghhhhhh! A-a-a-a-a-Aaarghhhhhh!

...For this reason Nerull despises his brother-in-law more than any other god...

-Are you saying that We ...

What changes do you guys make?

A lot of these have been inspired or just plain stolen from other sources.

576-577 (my ongoing campaign)
-- Turrosh Mak, aka Theg Narlot is not a member of the Sl ...

We dealt with Dahlvier and his county in Living Greyhawk.

Any details? His castle is on the ruins of an elven city destroyed by the Oeridians approximately 900 years ago, so around -316 CY. That's ...

...The campaign went from local concerns to the party coming into Resbin's service as she tried to hold the country together for her son until he could become marquess...

-Anything in canon about a ...

Considering a combination though, just for fun, the godling could be the patron of debutantes/trust fund babies. She might look a a little bit something like THIS This is brilliant, though given Zil ...

The Romans had a lot of gods like that. The one that sticks in my mind is Cloacina, goddess of sewers. Although maybe a place for someone like her in Greyhawk City?

Yep, I always thought the Oeridi ...

For my study of the Olman culture in Greyhawk World, I collected all official Olman language words. For aid to your research, here are those words which have provided a definition.

Very nice work, ...

I have other plans for Nol Daer *cough*. Thanks for all the ideas, guys!

By side trek, I take it to mean an incidental event that occurs while the party is pursuing its primary objective.

I mention that because just getting to the Suss can be a main adventure after the ...

I've always wanted to do the Lost City but it's a little too much, and too far west for this potential part of the campaign. Maybe later though. In fact, that gives me a great potential idea! Smile

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Anybody have any good sidetreks for the Pomarj or Suss? Edition and level don't matter, I'm just looking more for frameworks to work with. For that matter, any ideas anyone has for sidetreks in the Su ...

Dreadwood had this "it is suspected that the sea princes are in collusion with certain bandits and humanoid bands that creep through the dreadwood on their way to raid Keoland and the Yeomanry." And ...

I can use this as a jumping off point for Silent Ones. Happy

I'm with SirXaris as far as keeping the levels of NPCs down to about 3rd with an exceptional 5th here and there. Sounds like you have the temples covered. As far as the inns, my assumption is that des ...

Another thing thinking about this and discussing it (Thank you for all your replies!) is that we as DM's (I know I've been guilty of this) are sometimes too focused on the bad things that PC's do and ...

Another thing thinking about this and discussing it (Thank you for all your replies!) is that we as DM's (I know I've been guilty of this) are sometimes too focused on the bad things that PC's do and ...

They just released prestige class rules as an Unearthed Arcana article: http://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/UA_Rune_Magic_Prestige_Class.pdf

Great stuff as usual, Rasgon. If one were to assume Germanic place names are derived from or are at least symbolic of Suloise, perhaps similarly to how Tolkien "translated" Westron into English, would ...

...I'd rather be upfront about alignment change and let the player know. IMC, and in 5e, it's more a guide than a mechanic...

-Actually, if it's just a guide rather than a mechanic, why NOT have it ...

Killing for no reason is certainly evil. If the character persists, then turn them - unbeknownst to them even. Falling into evil is not necessarily a considered choice, but actions do have consequen ...

I like your translation of "col" as "son of" or "descendant of." It's an interesting idea.

Since this thread originally appeared I've changed my thinking on germanic sounding words being related to ...

What's the point when you would change a players alignment? I'm asking because a player in my current campaign is chaotic neutral, and I have to say he does a fantastic job of roleplaying it, sometime ...

I wasn't crazy about the plot of "The Last Slavelord", it was in DNG #215, but it could be easily modified. I hadn't planned on running the other modules in the series, although I was going to give th ...

Anyone familiar with the adventure "Lowdown in Highport" which was published in the last issue of Dungeon (# 221)? If you are, or even if you aren't, the adventure involves players being landed in a c ...