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Thank you, Cebrion, that's exactly what I need.

Can anyone tell me the sources for this event. I thought it was originally from one of the Greyhawk articles by Gary Gygax or Rob Kuntz, but I seem to be missing it? Also, was it it ever expanded upon ...

Not a module, but Dragon Magazine issue 298 was drow-themed and had a presentation of Erelhei-Cinlu and the rest of the Vault.

Awesome. Thank you both!

Like the title asks, where do the wild elves make their home in the Flanaess? Has there been any official word on this?

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Precisely like that one—thank you very much! You are gentleman and a scholar.

Nice thread, O-D.

That Dragon Archive was a purchase that I've never regretted. I always wish that they had done something similar with Dungeon.

Has anyone here made any simple black and white line art maps of the Flaeness? Preferably with political borders?

Anna's maps are freaking awesome, but sometimes I want to print up a simple map tha ...

One of the great things about the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer is that, while published under a previous edition, it contains virtually no game mechanics. Thus, there is no need to convert anything to th ...

This has been a rather enjoyable read. There's a lot of that I agree with, even though I haven't felt as compelled to change many of these things.

The destruction of the GK is one of the most annoy ...

I've participated in the playtest, I've downloaded the Basic rules and thus far, I really like what I see (I've even pre-ordered the PHB).

The new edition is like if you took AD&D, cleaned it u ...

I've been away from these boards too long! :D

I love it! Thanks for your hard work.

I didn't know that "hegira" was so recent an addition.

Interesting. Thank you, Cebrion. Cookies for you! :)

Hmm... Given that the Baklunish Empire prior to the Twin Cataclysms extended well west of the present Baklunish holdings, it seems that the only ...

I'm working on a project, right, and I'm attempting to put into context with the history of the Flanaess. So I was looking at the timelines and calendars when I started thing about something that neve ...

That's not really the point of this thread, though. Neither Rasgon nor I are discussing radically changing established geography to suit our own desires. We all have our issues with that map, but it's ...

I greatly dislike the Heward map of Oerth.... The super continent thing bugs me to no end, and the coastlines for most of it are rather uninteresting.

Fortunately, the accompanying text offers that ...

Thank you guys. The B&W GH Wars (which I had completely forgotten about) is pretty much what I'm looking for.. At some point, I just need to break out Illustrator and make my own to account for th ...

Anna and Eric have created some awe inspiring maps that are beautiful... I love their maps, but there are times that I find I'm wanting something far more basic to act as a quick visual reference.

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Saracenus, I'm sorry if you took offense at my criticism of James Wyatts' eyeball roll-inducing prose. If it's any consolation, you should get me started on 2e's whitewashing of demons, devils, remova ...

The language being used by Wotc while 4e was in development totally turned me off ever looking at the edition.

"D&D is a game about slaying horrible monsters, not a game about traipsing off thr ...

*sigh*

I may just have to get these even though I still have my 1e books within arms reach (even though I play 3.5).

This is really fascinating and completely unexpected. Unfortunately, it's going to take days to sift though all of it.

It all comes down to what is important to the individual and are they willing to work to make it real. Editions come and go. So do the gaming companies supporting them. But once you fall in love with ...

I have gunpowder in my Greyhawk... albeit in a very low-key sort of way. It's only shown up once thus far, and only in the hands of a friendly NPC. None of the players have shown any overwhelming desi ...

Cash has been the motivator for everything since Gygax was forced out of the company.

Fixed that for you. :D

2e was real doozy with its never-ending product list and never really offered many ac ...

Oh my god. I just got my first look at this. It's gorgeous. My poor little netbook cries when I try to look at it scaled over 66%. It can't take the full awesomeness of your map, Anna!!! Laughing

I' ...

Thanks, Thanael. I'll look into that. I play 3.5 (if I didn't already have so much invested in it, I might have been persuaded to go with Pathfinder--as I have lot of respect for the people at Paizo). ...

Really nice post, Master Arminas.

While I've mostly played good characters, I did once play an evil character (Kalath, an elven ranger) back in 1.5e (a hybrid of 1e and 2e). He started out as lawfu ...

I love the premise, DMPrata.

The big problem I see with the Xagy/Zagyg connection is that Xagy and the Nightingale predate Zagyg by several centuries. Assuming a starting date of 576 CY, the Nighti ...

I created a very rough (I was lazy) map of the Flanaess with a textual placement of nations and their languages (using the LGG as reference) [url=https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByPeH9P5hdlxZjE4YjA2Y ...

Agreed! Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, etc. May whatever holidays (if any) you celebrate be full cheer, love and peace.

What do other people think about the representation of Oerth in the corner of the Living Greyhawk map?

No, sir... Don't like it.

That map is based on the "Heward map" of Oerth presented in Drago ...

Very interesting, I'll have to check that out.

I think that'd be awesome for the entire community. It'd be great if Gary's family would publish his unfinished manuscripts, too--maybe coordinate that with Rob. There's a lot of stuff that many of us ...

I wish he'd just release these manuscripts online.

I was trying to make up a Frost Barbarian NPC but am not really liking the kit that is in the complete fighters for the Barbarian. Has anyone came up with a kit for 2nd edition for the Snow,Frost and ...

Thanks guys, I never thought to look in the published adventures. It's interesting that (until EttRoG) that the pan lung was the only one that made into print.

Rasgon, the wikipedia page was one of ...

They've been with us since the 1e Fiend Folio, increased in number with 1e's Oriental Adventures and have since been with us through many editions of the game. Have any of you used these critters in G ...

Glad to hear it Azzy1974 Smile

Curious as too which area you are working on?

Right now, most of the work I'm doing is on maps and the historic and prehistoric spread of the various ethnic grou ...

Working on the gazetteers for the "beyond the flanaess" project,

It seems that we are independently working on the same project. :D

a Map showing the distribution of languages are on my list of things to do, so I would be very interested to help out on making one.

Other similar style maps are, religion, trade, area alignments, ...

... I'll be using Lilah as my mouthpiece for the project in that Pluffet Smedger sort of way (but way more opinionated).
Azzy - Trust me, the Pluffet Smedger that we all know and love is rather opin ...

Azzy - wow!! What an awesome character and backstory. May just be tempted to insert her in my own campaign as an NPC, if that'd be all right with you? Happy

Really inspired by what you've done with ...

What I'm interested in as far as response, as well as any questions or other remarks people might have is -

* Do you think this is a worthwhile project?

Boy howdy, yes!

* If so what form shou ...

My friend is currently running the Return to the Tomb of Horrors campaign, in which I play Lilah Kaisarenn, an alumni of the University of Magical Arts and a professor of history at the Grey College. ...

Nice! I had never really thought a whole lot about the kara or other fruits unique to the Flanaess before, so this is a bit of an eyeopener. :)

I swear Canonfire has got to be the best D&D or D ...

Wow! This is really nice, Anna, I think I can get a lot of mileage out of this calendar.

To me, this has never been an issue. Raise dead and the like are the purview of higher level characters... which tend only to be PCs and important NPCs. As such, there's really no glut of dead coming ...

I, too, have gunpowder and firearms in limited quantities (if it's good for Murlynd...).

I also have Byzantine-style Greek fire/alchemist fire-spewing flamethrowers called firecasters (and their l ...

Very hip, Jeph. I look forward to the full article. Also, I like the idea of the bird-mounted cavalry--it reminds me of the [url=http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/217/8/8/Nausicaa__there__s_a_man ...

Very cool, Mort. I hope you can interview Roger Moore at some point--in addition to his contributions to Greyhawk, he was the editor of Dragon when I new to D&D/AD&D and I always loved the hum ...

Also check out some information on the Sauromatians of 6th-5th centuries BC. They were a war-like nomadic people of the the Scythian steppes. Their burial mounds indicate that their women held typical ...

That's really cool, Issak. Smile

I've finally had the chance to read all the replies., the topic is pretty intriguing. Let me throw some thoughts out on the matter (and try to syncretize the Vestcoat/Rasgon dichotomy)...

I believe ...

One of the things that interests me is what happened to the Demonic Knights of Doom in the aftermath of the collapse and sundering of the Great Kingdom, the disappearance Ivid and so forth. Do the sti ...

Thank you guys for all the replies! There's certainly a lot to look at and I'm glad to see different takes on it.

Sorry, Cebrion... Looking at the pic you posted, I understand how I missed it--I ne ...

Before I start naming and statting these individuals, is anyone aware of any canon references?

The only cannon references I'm aware of that detail anything about the Knights are the Dragon article ...

That was an excellent post, Rasgon. I agree that it need to be elevated to an article so that it doesn't get lost. *applause*

My apologies... I know this topic must have been discussed many times over, but I can't find a search function for the forums and my search of the articles brought nothing up. Maybe I'm having another ...

And there it is! For the whole world to see! Azzy's . . . Homer Simpson moment. Wink

*Takes a bow.* Cool

Though I've been playing D&D/AD&D since 87-88, I'm still a Greyhawk noob--I only started collecting Greyhawk resources since I picked up the LGG.

1) I have a good portion of 1e-2e material ...

According to Erik Mona in

Look at the left corner of the southwest section.

Sergio :-)

Doh! And I looked high and low for that. Embarassed

Thank you both. Smile

Without wanting to get into any sort of theological discussion, I have been wondering lately how others handle religion in GH. A few questions arise:

Is the peasant populace convinced for the most ...

Does anyone know what scale the hexes are on the 4-part map from Dragon Magazine?

I'm of a similar mind as Cebrion.

[Rant]Personally, I really hate the proliferation of additional base classes, and the knight (and others like it that are specialized versions of existing classes ...

Sweet Jeebus! Those are some nice links, Braggi. I appreciate any links and listings of resources that anyone can provide.

By the way, has anyone ever used the weather generation system from Dragon ...

Thanks! The more GH resources available, the better.

I've always wanted some proper wandering monster tables for various locations, building on the original ones in the Greyhawk supplements, which only had early 1e monsters listed There are so many sma ...

I also may be a bit slow-going on this, too, as I'm also working on other projects as well (one of which is compiling a list of Greyhawk monsters from 1e (including MM, FF, MM2, MotP, OA as well as GH ...

Sorry for the late response... I've been away for the weekend (Acererak's Tomb beckoned). ;)

Dark Lord, no need to apologize for "usurping" the tread... I'm quite fine with it, actually. I look for ...

First off, I'd like to apologize for asking other people to work on a project instead of doing it myself. I can only give my apology, and the reason for so doing: I'm not nearly as well-versed in the ...

I like a lot of classes, so it's really hard fr me to pick a favorite or three...

Fighter. My first character was a fighter and I love the whole warrior thing.

Magic-User/Mage/Wizard. One of my ...

In the campaign I'm running three of the players are 10-11 year old girls. While their parents veteran roleplayers, I figured the kids could use a bit of help in creating their characters' background. ...

I haven't been on Canonfire in a while... That's why I haven't already said:

Anna, you effing rock!!!! Thank you for getting to Sunndi. :)

[url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explore ...

Waaaay back in March 2nd 2005, the Living Greyhawk guys issued out LG Deities 2.0 detailing out the game info for the various deities found in Greyhawk. However, it was lacking a lot of fluff and desc ...

I've always prounounced "Nyr Dyv" as "Near Div"; but "Dyvers" as "Divers" (as in "Scuba Divers")....

That makes sense to me, I'm going to go with that.

Well, how about 'Flan' and 'Flanaess'?

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Woot! Thanks, guys. I love this community. Happy

I, too, go with "sool", "stair-ick" and "jeff" and dark elves that rhyme with "cow" (though my first gaming group pronounced it the other way). F ...

So I've been wondering about the pronunciation about a certain city's name for a while, but it seems like such a waste of a thread for such a small query. So, I decided to try to make a thread that ma ...

Thank you!

Personally, I really hate the shoehorning of real world gods/devils into a fictional setting, but that bus has already left the station. I'd go with keeping the names and maybe a passing similarity to ...

I'm quite interested in this region. Unfortunately the maps seem to be missing from the article. :(

What else have you done fore the region, Wolfsire? Also, what canonical sources have you used?

Azzy1974,

You might soon receive your wishes on human subrace articles or races of greyhawk overall.

Sounds cool! Can't wait to see the fruits of your labors. :)

Thank you, Eileen. That's definitely some food for thought! :)

The best summary of the Greyhawk human (and non-human) ethnicities is in the LG Gazeteer (pages 5-12). This gives average height and a summary of appearance, culture etc.

Beyond that, if you can ge ...

I've tried searching the forms and articles to see if anyone has posted the information I require, but to no avail. So, I put forth these questions to you esteemed and learned scholars of Greyhawk lor ...

I dont know if a thread like this has been started before, but I would like to know a couple of things about the people that I chat with on the forums.

First Name: Kynewulf (yes, really), but my ...

Anna, these maps are nothing short of amazing! Please keep this project going, I can't wait until you eventually get to Sunndi. Happy

Once the various sections of the atlas are more or less comp ...

Hello, my name is Kyn and while I'm newly registered, I've looking in off and on at Canonfire over the past few years. I've been playing since the tail-end of 1st edition and continued with 2e (more l ...