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Regarding Baron Jemain, it seems that he has no family name - yet it is quite clear there are 7 great families in Furyondy - so what's Jemain's family?

Just a question about Woolly bay - does the term refer to "wool" or "uncertainty"? I need to know for a correct translation.

Thank you very much!

I admit I colpetely forgot this line from the original Folio, under Wild Coast: "Legendary natives of the Wild Coast include such persons as Mordenkainen, Robilar, and Tenser, to name but a few.".
Ju ...

Here I am again!
Any ideas on possible houses/clans in Sunndi? What about Hazendel and the royal houses?

Besides: "The County of Sunndi was once a fief within a fief, being granted to a loyal peer ...

Will certainly do once I have put some order in that mess, sometimes I had to translate names and I am not sure I had them identical sitewise :)

That's good enough for me then. Thank you very much :)

Prego! How is the wiki going?
Slow and steady. It's in Italian and quite chaotic in some parts, otherwise I'd gladly show it :) I am waiting ...

That's good enough for me then. Thank you very much :)

What is the name of House of margraves Rollo and Walgar of Bissel?

Has Emirikol ever been retconned in Greyhawk (officially/unofficially) except for the Paladin in Hell adventure (which I am not sure is generic... does it have some sort of setting?)

I second the Oeridian religion antropomorphic aspect. IMC Flan gods are purely spiritual, and their antropomorphic manifestations are an Oeridian idea. Nerull and Pelor are just snow and blistering he ...

Just two questions as I am re-reading the Greyhawk Folio cover to cover.
Maybe it's a silly question but Gygax mentions that the original warlord that built a keep close to the trading post that beco ...

Queen of the Spiders also has generic encounter tables for Sterich.

I like that adventure idea, indeed. I can relate it to the Black Cult of Ahm in some ways. Or maybe some deranged Suel wizard that wants to reverse engineering some creations of his Imperial ancestors ...

So how woudl we fit, for instance, bugbears, goblins and hobogbilms in this system?

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family = (goblinoid?)
Genus =
Species = bugbear

Should we consider ethnic va ...

In italian breed and race have the same transation.
To make things interesting, the orc entry in the mondter manual says orcs can interbreed with hobgoblins as well. That raises an interesting probem ...

INC Frost and Fire Giants are two different species of the same genre (Jotni).

I did very little science in my high school, but I remember animals were classfied using a specific taxonomy.
We have the dragon names in the Monster Manual (Draco Conflagratio Horribilis) which sugg ...

Some very talented mad made a deep research on the language and sound of Greyhawk languages and came up with an astonishing software called EbON. Look for it on the Internet, I bought the paid version ...

Forgive me it was an error, as I was referring to Archbold's house, not Belvor's. I suppose it's House Nyrond then?
Glad I mistakenly said Belvor, though, as this discussion about Nyrond is interesti ...

Another question on the Coat of Arms.
Any idea on how to contempate the complete change of the coa of the Principality of Ulek over time?

After
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/heraldry/images/Princ ...

I know it might be obvious but Belvor III's House was Rax-Nyrond or Just Nyrond? A friend of mine who is of noble descent told me minor houses sometimes ask to join by name houses of higher prestige t ...

Any ideas for Ser Kargoth of Mansbridge's noble house?

I personally use wordpress for campaign logs and maybe ranting, but all my campaign info is stored in MediaWiki.

Also, the Folio says Belissica, but it also referes to an unnamed F16, so unless Belissica was a 16th level fighter (!) the discrepancy was present in the Folio, too.

Reading the Folio + the 83 box I read that Count Lorgan (16th level fighter) was the count of Urnst in 576 CY. Was he the father of Belissica? When did she became Countess?

I know it's probably nothing relevant, but reading the brief history of the Flanaess in the Greyhawk Folio I came up with this line
a large force was gathered to suppress the newly lndependent kingd ...

I also generally consider that there are countless lordshios and baronies withing a province like Alhissa, each one of these might have Lords and Barons of alignment that strongly differs from that on ...

No, but you can make your own list, or just check links in various blogs, or submit links to such blogs on the Links
Well you're right but I have no links to share as I could not find anything worth ...

Can you make a list of online "campaign logs" both (hopefully) active and non active?
I personally love to read stuff like http://geek-related.com/session-summaries/jade-regent/
Also, Paizo weekly ...

Plate would have had a more gradual or phased introduction than chainmail. Splint mail, for instance, could be considered a proto-plate mail, as it is chain with segments of plate armor. Likewise, t ...

Thank you very much guys, lot of crunch here.
Now that I think about it, the Netheril boxed set for Forgotten Realms included a calendar that specified technological and magical discoveries to allow ...

Commonly, people do include the 'and', but people also commonly say 'probly' when they mean 'probably'. Wink

Uh, I thought it was written "prolly" :)

Well I am pretty sure I speak for many other DMs here. If your bf's character wants to do that, fine, but there is no question I would rule out it does absolutely nothing :)

Since buying the amazingly illustrated Artesia RPG, I was mumbling about the armors of the Flanaess. Not just styles (which could roughly be defined by the rw culture parallels) but how armor history ...

Silly question but since I am not a native english speaker I usually pronounce this in Italian "meno centoventitrè anno comune" but I was curious to hear how this is supposed to be pronounced. "onehun ...

Suel and oerdian houses then have additional votes (4 Suel houses with 8 total votes, 2 oerdian houses with 6 total votes).

Oerdian or Oeridian?
Now you raised a terrible doubt in me!

I found interesting the "first darkness" concept in Golarion, when orcs swarmed over the earth and dwarves built their citadels, helped by the black clouds that hanged in the sky covering the sun for ...

Does anybody have the names of the olven houses of Celene? What's Yolande's house? I know she has two cousins but one is a Brightflame and the other (can't remember) could be of the same house?

I just recognized that the 1st version of the calendar was 360 days instead of 364, with festivals being 6 days long instead of 7.
Since the moon phases are precise, I guess that doesn't change the f ...

I agree with that and I assume most commoners in Oeridian lands mostly pray the Oerid Agricoltural Gods but in general the Flanaess probably have very sparse worship and every deity is probably worshi ...

I am reworking the main concepts of Flanaess religions, since I'd like to give each ethnic group a more precise current/philosophy that can be easily understood by the players. Since I want to give GH ...

We're about to play Against the Giants in 576 CY (our ongoing campaign is set in 596 CY), and a friend of mine came up with an interesting question, what are the conflicts that were active between 576 ...

Yeah I was just playing wih the terms Scandinavia, Norsemen, Vikings, Danes, Swedes, Icelanders etc. As all three kingdoms speak the same language, it seems obvious there should be a term to define th ...

Where do you get the name of the Baronies and Counties of Sterich? I could not find anything on Google on Garinac etc.

Wasn't Krestible under siege by Ket several times?

I was pondering on the fact that there is not (to my knowledge) a common term used to identify the three barbarian people prom Rhizia.
Considering they all speak the same language (Fruz) they could ...

Considering the renewed attention on the OSR (incoluding repressing deluxe versions of AD&D manuals) and the late "low medieval" feel of fantasy like Game of Thrones, it's not improbable they will ...

Is there an official take on the House of Belissica of Urnst?
I know Karll is of House Lorinal, but I can't find info on Belissica.

Some time ago I read an interesting discussion on how extremely rare were field battles compared to sieges, for obvious reasons (less bloodshed etc.).
Is there a list of canon (or lgg canon) importan ...

Found "Half-Ores: As orcs will breed with anything, there are any number of
unsavory mongrels with orcish blood, particularly orc-goblins, orchobgoblins,
and orc-humans. Orcs cannot cross-breed with ...

Could be interesting doing a layered PDF so one can overlap, say, dwarven and suel maps.

Has someone done racial and ethnic maps of the Flanaess?
I was thinking about something like an heatmap using color shades.
For example a Flan racial map could be colored 80% solid color for Tenh, 4 ...

I recall a line in the PHB or MM where is stated that orcs have numerous forms of half breeds among them (not surprisingly accoridng to their habits or raping and pillaging). hobgoblin-orcs, goblin-or ...

Is there an official list of Dwraven Strongholds in the Flanaess?
I suppose the Dwarven kingdoms have more than one.

You're right, I wasn't clear in my question :)
I knew the flan name thing, and I know that this is the official take, but Sargent took the words jebli and celbit to define specific tribes of orcs in ...

Qhat's the official take on jebli and celbits?
Are they orc ethnic groups or flan names of goblins and kobolds?

I have reinvented a little bit the histories of the semihumans in my campaign.
Dwarves were born as dvergar, maggots in the flesh of the titans deep below the earth, in a land called Svartalfheim, pr ...

If you want something conveying the actual mood of the place, maybe something like;

Like it very much.
I'd like to see a few sharp catchphrases that could already spark some ideas just by reading ...

Oh and the two nomads :)

I am more interseted in how to distinguish the three barbarian lands, urnst, the baklunish west... :)

Sterich - Keolandish vassal land of mixed-suel ethnic groups conquered by giants.

I like the Pathfinder Setting idea of defining the mood of a region with just a few sharp words, like "Ustalav, Fog-Shrouded Land of Gothic Horror".
How would you describe Greyhawk's ones in such a w ...

Here it is

Ruling House: House Qualtaine, originates from the (should be of some Geoff noble house to tie in blood relations) Suel warlord Qualtaine of Geoff which is therefore patriarch of the Rul ...

I just read/realized that Against The Gients is set in Sterich and not Geoff, UGH! So any notes you might want to share on noble families of Sterich? Especially noble families of Sterich "at the time ...

Lots of stuff to crunch eheh.
BTW, since we're at it, the tricky part is binding families and houses to a specific territory. What are the domains (and headquarters) of these major houses?
I also th ...

If you want to use an ASOIF naming system for noble bastards in Aeridy, what about using the heraldry of the respective provinces and kingdoms? You could even extend this to former GK provinces like F ...

Ouch I am still elaborating all this stuff. There's a lot to do.
Expecially since Houses and Families tend to blend here and there. I suppose numbering after the name are exclusive of Royal Houses (h ...

Regaridng Greyhawk, I recall only Mastryne right now, so might be that families of House Mastryne are the Lords of Greyhawk (but obviously with no direct political power)?

Thank you very much!!! I knew I couldn't go wrong here eheh!
I also made a full immersion in heraldry recently as there's still nobility and interest in heraldry in my country - I even know 3 or 4 fa ...

Thank you very much!!! I knew I couldn't go wrong here eheh!
I also made a full immersion in heraldry recently as there's still nobility and interest in heraldry in my country - I even know 3 or 4 fa ...

Hi everyone, nice to be here after a long pause :) (but not from play, I have played a lot of Greyhawk in 2012!).
I am building up a wiki of my personal Greyhawk campaign setting which is a mix of ca ...

My main doubt when preparing a session has always been how evil gods are worshipped and why? I am not talking about demonic sects, which are probably very similar to some of our real world satanic cul ...

Uh, sure. I wrote this a while ago and posted it on a different message board. It has Raxivort in it and it'll maybe tide you over until I get to xvarts. It's based on the 4th edition explanation fo ...

I believe Lydia should say "little larva" instead of "lemure".

Impressive, like always!
In case you accept "requests", would you write something about Raxivort?

Maye Skip recalls something more.
Do someone know him already? http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=730216532

Pathfinder Campaign setting introduced ethnicities, you could use some inspiration from that book.

Have you read the Ultimate Combat manual? It has a large share of oriental weapons and martial arts feats (as it was released right before their "oriental adventures" adventure path).

What I am not ...

I ran a cross between all three versions of the module, using the original tourneament as the base and taking bits and pieces from the AD&D and 3E versions.
Well the journey through the Caverns w ...

In my campaign the party recovered the Demonomicon from the Caverns of Tsojcanth and brought it to Hazen in Mitrik... I admit it was unexpected, but I let them end their journey last session, and now ...

Here, here! I have customized the language table to include GH languages, and added a few Gods as well in a separate file (not many, I think 5 or 6). But if somone else is working on HL files, I'll be ...

Escuse me for the OT, but what are the whereabouts of the Circle of the Eight members in 596CY?

- Mordenkainen in the Obsidian Citadel (I presume) close to Perrenland
- Tenser in his citadel on t ...

If you want some ideas on morkoths, there's an exceptionally good module for AD&D2E called Sea of Fallen Stars (and a related Adventure - Wyrmskull Throne) for FR.

I was considering using the load of new (high quality in general, imho) Golarion/Pathfinder supllements for my Greyhawk Campaign.
I will probably place Vudrani and Tian Xia regions outside of the fl ...

Just for historical reasons... what about House Rax?

I don't know if there is a 3.5 version of the Varrangoin in any of the hardback monster books, but Paizo did one in their Savage Tide Adventure Path in Dungeon Magazine #148, p. 70. You might check t ...

I am converting some monsters/spells/items from FTA and related AD&D material.
Here they are for dicussion and critics (of course :))

Verrangoin

Varrangoin, or abyss bats, are creatures nat ...

To start with which abilities would you give to Knights of the Hart (all three branches)? I plan to create a custom file to include for users of Hero Lab....

Are you talking about creating new abil ...

We're playing Pathfinder and we want to come up with new cavalier orders besides those described in their Advanced Player's Guide.
How many "canon" orders are there in the Flanaess?
I could count Kn ...

First of all thank you for sharing your thought and give me some food for it as well.

I think I will run a cross of three different invasion themes that stem up from an undead uprising in Perrenlan ...

I am playing a GH campaign which is set in early 596CY. I am thinking about having a new war explode sometime in the close future.
I am not using LGG material, but I include all Carl Sargent writing ...

My characters are playing in 596CY, and they recently ventured in the Lost Caverns of you-know-who. The Caverns were already cleared by the previous party, but being an extradimensional space where mu ...

The demonic form I had in my head is something in the vein of this

http://www.nuclearblast.de/shop/artikel/bilder/kreator-pleasure-to-kill-re-release/159407.jpg?x=1000&y=1000

plus multiple l ...

I always figured human form Iuz like Uncle Creepy.

Really amazing. What about a wallpaper?

First Name? Michele
Age? 34
Location? Modena, Italy
When you started playing D&D? I am not sure, it's been a long time ago. I believe my first experience with choose-your-own-adventure books an ...

I think Nerull has to remain Evil. Embodiment of evil and annihilation of life.
Flans are a strongly spiritual/naturalistic race, so my guess is they had something like Beory taking care of the dead ...

- Erase all occurrences of sci-fi/mechanical things like the ones in the Barrier Peaks.
- Block publishing of Castle Greyhawk pun module brrr.
- I would have really liked to see Castle Greyhawk orig ...