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Princes of the Apocalypse (PotA) is pretty dang good as written and done well for the Forgotten Realms. I think that Sasquatch Game Studio nailed the feel of elemental evil. Saracenus is right, in tha ...

During today's game session in our long-running Nyrond campaign a question came up about the Oeridian and Common languages.

I indicated that an animus mage had yelled something in Oeridian through ...

While not a conversion, there is an alternative "history" for Strahd and the Zaroviches in the Flanaess here, http://www.canonfire.com/cf//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=884

and her ...

I checked all of my Living Greyhawk resources and found nothing on the former queen of Nyrond. Not even a name. The Nyrond triads over the years did not appear to address her at all in any communicati ...

I found references to two LG Nyrond modules ("Road to Appolled" & "Fate of Appolled") that have the church of Pelor sending the PCs to the ruins of Appolled, but I don't know what's contained in ...

As noted above, thanks Mortellan and Mr. Looby. I realy like the take on Iuz. "Iuz has to go away" is music to my ears. Of course, not until after my [url=http://www.epicwords.com/doomdreamers]Doomdre ...

Allan is indeed one of the classiest persons out there. He helped me on a couple of Greyhawk research projects when I was on the Nyrond triad. As noted, thanks to Mortellan for sharing a good intervie ...

I'm gonna run both the DM Rewards Tomb of Horrors and the super-adventure beginning 19 November 2011. We shall see how it goes. I'll post links to campaign journals here for interested parties.

You ...

Been converting Red Hand of Doom to 4th Edition (which is so easy) for a forthcoming campaign. There is a dearth of domains in 4E, so I did the best I could in my [url=http://www.epicwords.com/wikis/6 ...

Hey, all.

Oerth Journal 2 mentions a Lortmil Mountains peak called Abharclamh. It says, on page 14 that Abharclamh is at hex A599. Does anyone know which map this article references relative to "he ...

I've been so out of touch the last few years, that I cannot recall if the Oeridians have or had a god of death or after life. Is there such a personality for the Oeridians?

Do the Oeridians "share" ...

I might drop the greatsword in my version, just because he doesn't really need it. Also, IMO it makes the demon form feel more savage.I agree with this idea, and I like it a lot. PaulN6's spittle ide ...

I have two adventures wherein Lareth makes an appearance. He is, of course, in The Village of Hommlet a level 4 elite controller.

Before that he appeared in the Origins 2008 convention special Ret ...

I'm of the opinion that he would be in the low to mid 20s - I don't think Iuz should be as powerful as his dad, Graz'zt, and I think he's a natural opponent for the end of Paragon Tier. However, this ...

I already commented on his review below the article, so I won't add much here. I do agree with his 4 out of 5 rating. I really liked Revenge of the Giants, and I think a review of it deserved more tha ...

I think Vistani as Rhenee works well in Greyhawk. It's an appropriate theme and a very good analogue. And, I think Chris Sims did a great job on both articles.

The way it's written up now, any rac ...

Can the Mist Kingdom be a possible place of origin for dragonborn? Is there any latitude to assume that the mist dragons there gave rise to the dragonborn. Living Greyhawk asserted that a society of k ...

1) In the "Draconomicon" - The 4e version of Dragotha, complete with a mention of his home "in the shadow of fabled White Plume Mountain."

3) In "Open Grave:Secrets of the Undead" - We learn the tr ...

Are you asking where we think such a realm would or should be located?
I am asking both questions. Should the Flanaess have a "domain of the dead", ruled and populated by undead? Like Geb in Golarion ...

Hi, all.

Just thought I'd share a thread from Wizards of the Coast's Forgotten Realms messages boards. The below thread has a poster that touches on Vecna, calling his apotheosis a "mystery of D&am ...

triads? I am pretty sure you're not talking about southeast asian mobsters so what do you mean by this?
LOL, no. Living Greyhawk used the term triad because each region's formal administrators were ...

Nah, don't feel dumb. I thought maybe registration was down. I know it's slow, but shouldn't down. If all else fails you can use my login.

Anyway, I've thought about the Living Greyhawk compilati ...

How do you access it? It requires a password which I do not have access too.
Did you try [url=http://verbobonc.net/Registration]REGISTERING at the Web site, yet?

I think compiling the vast amount ...

Well, it does not seem like anyone is sure when Dragonlance shall make its 4th Edition appearance. It could be in 2011, with Greyhawk taking the 2010 spot.

But, I doubt it. I suspect that at Gen Co ...

Information: 0
Goobers: 2
LOL, yeah. That about sums it up, Ceb. And like Mort said, we probably walked by each other. I'm gonna send you guys my mobile number. This ain't happening again!

I'm gl ...

Ohhhh sorry fellas, I must've walked by that booth a hundred times but never stopped to look.
I walked by their booth, too, but did not stop to look. I gotta admit, the project never interested me. I ...

Well, bummer. I did not see Rob's post until I got back home today. I was there, and kept pretty busy. If I was at a table with any Canonfire! folks, I didn't know.

Perhaps we can try again next y ...

Ok next question. Is The Living Greyhawk Gazzateer and the D&D Gazateer The same thing?
No, they are not. The D&D Gazetteer is a short abstract designed to give DMs and players brief informa ...

Were can I get the Living Greyhawk source material? There is tons of information available to RPGA members but as I have only recently got back into D&D I am not a member of the RPGA. Besides, m ...

Does anyone know if there are plans to revive these magazines?
He's right. Wizards of the Coast has returned the magazines to the community via their D&D Insider. They are shadows, mere husks, of ...

So the DM asked me what adventures I'd like to run and I said Vecna Lives / Vecna Reborn and Iuz the Evil / City of Skulls.
But I wasn't sure how the series of each goes. I thought there were three ...

Admin! Please step in and declair this official with topic and dates or an announcement of that such will be coming soon. I've already started on a couple for Urnst.
Okay, on Monday (possibly sooner ...

Hey, guys. Let me see if I can shed a little light on this non-issue. The underlying fact in that sidebar from the 4E Player's Handbook is that Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance were conceived and arti ...

I'm in favor of an Urnst states-centered (or just one of them) Postfest. Do we have a consensus on that, yet?

Don (Greyson)

Anyone have any thoughts why the Great Kingdom and Keoland never went to war for domination of the Flaneass?
- They're too far apart from each other
- They've both been through imperialist stages an ...

Living Greyhawk Gazeteer... No pictures, no crunch, but rather pages and pages of convoluted history lessons made me feel that I've returned in the late hours to a party I'd never really been invited ...

Did somebody say that Golarion is Greyhawk? It is not - It is Golarion and has the merits of two adventure paths (with a third around the corner), almost two dozen adventure modules and several supple ...

Hey, all.

Is there any interest in a Gen Con Indy CF/GH meet-up? I'll be there this year, getting in on Wednesday night.

Let me know, I'd love to hook up for a dine-out, or just hang out somewh ...

On my screen it is posted twice
Okay, I fixed it. Thanks for saying something, Crag. PM me the moment you ever see anything amiss.

Great article, by the way. I look forward to getting this nice co ...

Although the first one appears to have been posted twice
Did it post twice? I only see it once... Let me know.

Don (Greyson)

I don't know it is helps or not, but here is what 3rd Edition said about cambions.
Although the term “cambion” is often applied to any humanoid half-fiend, a true cambion springs from a union between ...

This looks like an interesting setting, I may check it out. Just curious, do the elves in this world have a "lifespan" on the order of 1e AD&D (thousands of years) or 3e D&D (hundreds of years ...

Anyone else taken a look at Golarion's Gazetteer, yet?
Yeah, I subscribe to the Paizo's Pathfinder adventure path and to Pathfinder Chronicles. I agree with the above regarding the River Kingdoms as ...

Do y'all know if any other cities were done up similiarly in Dungeon?
Yeah, "Hardby: City of the Scorned" is a Dungeon highlight. I'm glad you discovered it.

Dungeon 139 also tackled Sasserine in ...

"Hardby: City of the Scorned" in Dungeon # 109. "Slavers" also has a decent bit of info.
Scott's right. That "Hardby: City of the Scorned" is my favorite source on Hardby and Paul Looby's best work, ...

The more I play D&D 4th Edition the more I like it. Like many of you, that means I consider transforming the World of Greyhawk to fit into some of 4th Edition's design philosophy. One of the issue ...

This is great stuff, Paul. Have you done any converting from the very beginning, with The Whispering Cairn?

And, we need to figure out a way to make a comprehensive conversion document, rather tha ...

Oh? Where is he off to? I suspect publishing... but perhaps a bigger market?
All Lisa Stevens said was that Mike "... moved on to some new adventures in his life ..." Maybe his own studio or design o ...

Galorian definitely has its own unique mood, theme and feeling. Other "new" settings like Eberron and Midnight, for example, sprang into being with their unique feel, direction and mood. I don't think ...

... and now Sean K Reynolds is joining the Paizo team in July to replace Mike McArtor* as developer on the Pathfinder™ and Pathfinder Chronicles™ lines of Adventure.
I guess we shall see how this goe ...

I had previously d/led issues 1 and 2, but with the loss of my hard drive I no longer have them. Can you point me in the right direction?
Issak, here ya go:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg ...

Hi, all.

The RPGA has posted a third installment to Eric Menge's Greyhawk Grumbler this morning. Check out issue three - it's pretty good.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lggt/20080623a ...

*LOL* Cool.
Yeah, those are freakin' awesome. Nice work, Rasgon. I think those are perfect.

Don (Greyson)
Nyrond Triad

Hey, all.

Living Greyhawk's Mysterious Places column visits Ghazal, in the Abbor-Alz. It's a great Bright Sands article with a healthy dose of history. Check it out if ya have a minute or two:

h ...

I have tried to submitt an article, with graphics attached, and have been unable to place them in the tet. How do I accomplish this?
Submit your article without the images. Send the images to me, an ...

Question... how are NPC's handled? i.e. Are there warrior/commoner/expert/adepts type NPC classes?
Thankfully, the NPC classes from the 3.x Dungeon Master's Guides are gone in 4th Edition. Non-Player ...

So how was the game (4th edition)? Did it treat you well, so-so, meh? What was your opinion of the game system?
Hi, Eileen.

The game was a lot of fun, despite being too short. But, Worldwide D& ...

Hey, all.

I DMed 4th Edition's Into the Shadowhaunt today for Worldwide D&D Gameday at a local retailer. The adventure takes place in a mausoleum "Shaded by the towering Barrier Peaks ..." An ...

We don't know the status of older content, yet. Gamer Zero said in an online chat that there is still some shuffling of older content from many message boards on Gleemax. So, the threads are there som ...

Hi, all.

Paul Looby (our very own Woesinger) has a Mysterious Places article posted to the RPGA Web site. Check out The Cauldron of Night.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lgmp/20080527a ...

2. Drokkas knew of Kyuss, but never interacted with him directly, learning from dusty writings the priest left behind in the undead-haunted city the priest had been exiled from and eventually being fo ...

Hey, all.

Wizards of the Coast has merged its Other World forums into one mega-forum. They have combined everything from Birthright to Ravenloft into one forum called Other Published Worlds. Regret ...

Lord Robilar: "The Master of Dragons"
Played By: Robert J. Kuntz (created in 1972)
Class/Level: Fighter/19th level
Abilities: Str: 18/78, Int: 11, Wis: 16, Dex: 16, Con: 18, Chr: 16, hp: 117
Just ...

Wow, darkseraphim provides as good of a summary of castle Greyhawk's levels as I've seen online.

To me, Castle Greyhawk has always had a sense of being built one or two levels at a time to stay ju ...

i have the "tsr 01015 - World of Greyhawk Map" map, but i dont know about the distances. each hex mean what distance? how many hex can i travel by horse and by foot?
Ah, that is the ubiquitous and es ...

Nice work, azato. Where would you say Common fits in on your chart? Somewhere in the Keosih/High Oeridian box, I'm guessing?

Don (Greyson)
Nyrond Triad

Awesome. Thanks for the notes and clarification, Brian. It's nice to have a community expert on this sort of thing. I just noticed that the original poster even noted the text from The Temple of Eleme ...

Thrommel was/is indeed a Knight of the Hart... was he? Is that from ToEE?
The Temple of Elemental Evil only says, "The coffin's occupant is Prince Thrommel, Grand Marshall of Furyondy, Provost of Vel ...

Sounds interesting, Don: what were the adventures about?
I don't wanna give away too many details for fear of spoiling the adventure, of course. Here is the adventure abstract from CORS8-01 Whispers ...

I understand there to be three passes across the Lortmil Mountains - all of them exceedingly difficult to negotiate.

Trail of Tears between Veluna and the Duchy of Ulek used during the Hateful Wars ...

Re: Tenser - There was also an article on Magepoint on Wotc LG section a while back.
I'd forgotten about that Mysterious Places article from 2006 called, Tenser and the Fortress of unknown Depths. It ...

There's also a little info concerning Tenser's castle, the town of Magepoint, and various related personages in the Age of Worms adventure path ... these articles and adventures were written for "Paiz ...

Another Living Greyhawk article has been released. Mysterious Places: Dominions of the Flannae offers a historical review of past Flannish realms. Take a peek and let us know if the "list" looks good ...

Hey, all.

I was not gonna post this, as I thought you might be tired of seeing Living Greyhawk stuff (I know it's not for everyone). But, I like the development given to the menhirs next to Greyha ...

Can anyone post a link to the first Greyhawk Grumbler.
Here you go:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lggt/20080223a

Enjoy. Just as good as the second.

I loved that line "...which is unusual in the Free City, where corruption is overt, expected and budgeted."
Yeah, that was my favorite line in the whole thing. Made me laugh out loud when I read that ...

Hi, all.

Did ya like The Greyhawk Grumbler? If you did, Salume Sewis has released another issue of the torrid tabloid. Check it out here:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/lggt/20080422a
...

I've never seen or heard the name Gellner, either.
I found Tirgan Gellner in Greyhawk: Folks, Fueds and Factions on page 9. At the time of FF&F he was commander of the city's Cairn Hills forces. ...

No idea about the Gellner name, sorry... Anybody go the 2E stats of these guys available?
I've never seen or heard the name Gellner, either.

I found the following, though, in Greyhawk: The Adventu ...

Interesting, but not a lot of new material about the Isle itself in there, right?
You're right, Allan. These Living Greyhawk articles mostly serve to familiarize the new player to the setting. For us ...

Hi again, everyone.

Living Greyhawk has been busy this week. The RPGA posted an article by Sam Wiess called Power Groups: The Directing Oligarchs of Greyhawk. It includes a few details using 3.5 ru ...

The RPGA posted a Mysterious Places article featuring The Isle of Lost Souls. It's pretty dang good. Nice and thorough, the way I like them. Take a peek if ya get a chance.

http://www.wizards.com/d ...

Ah, that's why I couldn't find it... It's one of the few issues I don't own. Thanks for the speedy reply though, Greyson!
No problem. Luckily, Paizo has Dragon 290 as a PDF (they are out of print is ...

Does anyone know what issue of Dragon their 3e stats appeared?
Their article, called "The Heroes of 'Descent into the Depths of the Earth'" is in the Rogues Gallery from Dragon 290. Paul Kidd statted ...

So, it'll be just like Dragonlance then. Well, except that the halfings and gnomes won't be quite as annoying.
LOL, yes. My veiled effort at playing in Dragonlance (a setting I actually like a lot). ...

Hey, all.

Good thread, been lurking in it, just watching the discussion. I figure enough Tharizdun fans have chimed in now that I can join the discussion without feeling so lonely.

Anyway, I re ...

dont want to "evolve," systems every few years, I want to explore worlds.
That is a great gamer attitude, and says a lot (of good things) about you, AM. That's why I don't get too much in rules or e ...

BTW, has anyone integrated Golarian into GH? I love the Pathfinder series.
I have not integrated the settings, but I think about it all of the time. I'd like to see some ideas on that, and perhaps ...

Wow! I really can't think of anything else to say, except wow. Paizo is doing the right thing here. Using a perpetual license to maintain a standard of rules that we all know works is brilliant. The p ...

(in Dungeon or on WotC site) it was stated that there had been some treaty between Ilena and Rary and that there had been direct contact between Rary and Aleeta, with a view to her becoming his appren ...

What confuses me about the Blight series is, why would the PCs -not- want the Scorpion Crown unmade? The intro to the article suggests some did agree with Rary's purpose but the majority perceived he ...

Hey, all.

Living Greyhawk has posted an article detailing the results for the campaign's recently concluded Blight on Bright Sands story arc. Creighton Broadhurst's article may be read Rise of the ...

I am trying to keep an open mind, but the true test is when the books are in my hot not-so-little hands.
I think this is the best approach to 4th Edition. A tempered wait-and-see attitude is entirely ...

How's the article queue looking? I figured my piece would hit the site sooner than now??
I got the articles back on track and ready to post regularly starting tomorrow (Friday, 14 March). My extende ...

Hi, all.

I shall be at Gen Con Indy this August, too. I fully support at the very least a GH meet-up/dine out. Shall we try to organize the same meeting place as last year? Where did the three GH p ...

You mean more than this week's mega-one panel tribute? Any suggestions?
Wow, Mike. Your tribute to Mr. Gygax in this week's WoG comic made my eyes well up with tears. It is the best of the online mem ...

I wonder what Ed Greenwood, the CREATOR of the Forgotten Realms, thinks of all this tampering with his "baby"... I'll bet he's none too happy, to say the least!
He seemed very excited about the futur ...

Was the preview all combat or was there any attempt to show off the social interaction rules?
In the dungeon delve, it was of course all combat.

But, the Living Forgotten Realms Preview had an in ...

Godspeed, Gary. We'll all miss you.
Indeed, Godspeed, Mr. Gygax. Thanks for bringing the only game in my life that constantly sent me to the dictionary. And, thanks for a game that has brought me co ...

I was at D&DXP over the weekend. I played one Living Forgotten Realms preview adventure and five Dungeon Delves (which used 4E rules).

My impressions are that 4th Edition is certainly the best ...