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if you are playing under 3.0 rules the definition of 'living' means it has a constitution score... in 3.0 (and 3.5) cure wounds spells work on all creatures not of the construct and undead types (and ...

In 1e most demons and devils are not effected by healing or inflicting spells btb (check out the cure light wounds wording in the 1e PHB), so I am not sure that Gygax would agree that citing 3.x in th ...

gun powder is inert on my version of Oerth. psionics can be found, but it is just another form of 'magic' and follows all the same rules and restrictions there of (is dispelable, doesn't work in anti ...

The answerer and equalizer are both Greyhawk blades (The answerer appeared in the Temple of Elemental evil as "fragarach the answerer" and "Equilizer" is from Greyhawk adventures, appears there as "Eq ...

Ah BG2, I had forgotten that they had perloined Blackrazor for the computer game (along with a couple of other swords that were from greyhawk products).

Blackrazor has been part of Greyhawk since before the Forgotten Realms existed as a published AD&D setting, lol.

I do not recall any forgotten realms supplements or adventures for 1e through 3. ...

Apparently, this took place in Living Greyhawk. IIRC, King Kimbertos of Keoland is also dead in the campaign.Had his life force devoured by blackrazor, or some such no less, iirc.

I'll throw out this trap:

The walls of this 40' long hallway are lined with a powerful lodestone (behind the normal masonry) which generates a strong magnetic field with in it. Characters looking ...

how wide is it (if it is over 20 feet tall)?

I ask because if it is 10 feet wide each page (assuming it has the same paper weight as standard office paper) is going to weigh ~2.65 pounds (in realit ...

According to Against the Giants: Liberation of Geoff Rungnirheim stands out in the northern Crystalmists 'not only because of its height' suggesting that it is taller then many of the other surroundin ...

The Spell Compendium mentioned by the original poster is a 3.5e book.

The domains that were completely new to the Spell Compendium (such as the Planar domains) were never assigned to any deities to ...

2) Return to the TOEE is the first time I saw this connection leading me to believe it was made with either no understanding of the source material or a misreading of the source material or even, some ...

Enter the North American plains tribes southern "cousins" . . . the Aztec, Inca and Maya! Who looked upon their northern "cousins" and immediately asked . . . "Who are these barbarians?" and the Inca ...

in other words it depends on what year you are playing in :)

I thought they were trying to make him look more like Sean (K. Reynolds)

http://paizo.com/image/content/Conventions/SutterPossessesSean.jpg

I voted that PFRPG is useful primarily in that it's a continuation of 3.5e. However, I think I should explain that does not mean I think it's ideal for Greyhawk.

Personally I think 1e AD&D is t ...

I am not sure I would rely so much on the art in dungeon magazine to determine the culture of the area.

return to the keep was pretty piss poor as far as a greyhawk product goes anyway... it was like the only greyhawk products that the author had ever read were gargoyle and puppets, and was somehow conf ...

I like it.

I played a 2e dwarven Fighter/Cleric named Borin Hammerhelm in as one shot that took place in the orc over run southern wild coast a few weeks back, but I hardly ever get to play anymore.

doesn't look like I'll be done with mine by the deadline, so I'll probably just submit mine as a normal article in a week or so.

I will be starting mine tomorrow... my schedule finally freed up so that i can do some personal writing for the next couple of weeks.

thanks for the kind words.

I am going to try to get one done, hopefully after this week my schedule will let up enough to let me do a write up before the deadline.

unless the Sunless Sea is hundreds of miles across, that would have to be changed accordingly. well if it really is a "sea" then that shouldn't be to much of a problem. the main difficulty I see is t ...

not sure really, they always felt sort of tacked on to make it more "elementaly" to me... although they were filled with a lot of evil elemental critters, I am unsure they were connected in anyway wit ...

there is no real relation to the elemental evil of the TOEE, the elemental evil of the "Temple of Elemental Evil" was just a cover for a scheme that Zuggy, the demon lady of fungus, and Iuz cooked up. ...

debatably the Rovers of the Barrens are North American plains indian in culture (although not exact appearance) and the olman of the olman islands and the amedio jungle are mesoamerican indian in cult ...

he certainly does exists as a 2e AD&D collectors card, which would have given him 2e stats.... he does not have a previous greyhawk providence though (as far as i can tell) and was likely made up ...

EEG is Tharizdun according to Monte Cook and WotC in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. Gygax on the other hand certainly meant for them to be separate entities.

They are not the same in my ...

according to this site [url=http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/allender/add91.htm]LINK he can also be found in the AD&D card set II, as card #357. that card should have AD&D 2e stats f ...

Splendid. I like the worry-hags.

Okay, this is really picky, but I don't think Gygax ever used the term "fairy" in his Monster Manuals; Monster Manual page 39 (although he spelled it the older w ...

Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict.

I don't know where you live Embraceyourshadow, but here in the pacific north-west there are still plenty of older edition books to be found... of course they are not so much found at the hobby-gaming ...

the entry for orcs in the 1e monster manual lists the names of some prominent orc tribes (The Broken Bone, Dripping Blade, etc.).

as for personal orc titles ("orc soldier" etc.), mostly that is jus ...

[url=http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj252/cwslyclgh/Rodenimanor002.jpg]HERE is a link to the map of the 1st level of dungeon beneath Rodeni Manor.

Bigby, Otto, et al, are not as famous as the King of the Great Kingdom. Sorry, but it just works that way. are you sure... ther are people in the world who are more famous then the president of the U ...

40 years of Spiderman a 12 cd set that has pdfs of every issue of Amazing Spiderman from 1963 to 2003, I am currently up to September 1971.

Ralishaz the unlooked for.

I used to have a copy of it (Braggi sent me the pdf because it included one of my mini-adventures), but I can't seem to find it on my hard drive now, so I apparently lost it someplace along the way.

currently reading Cleopatra's Needle by Steven Siebert. It started off pretty good, but has shifted gears toward the middle (and not in a good way, but I am hoping it picks up again toward the end). ...

I think that a return to places of mystery, a detailed inn or tavern, or a detailed province, town, barony, county, duchy etc. would all be fine ideas for a postfest.

okay.

It let me preview it with out erasing it using Firefox, so lets hope it didn't erase it when sent either.

tonight I downloaded Firefox, just so I can submit articles correctly again :P

It is a nice dream... I don't share it as regards to Sand Diego specifically, but I wish you luck in seeing it come to pass.

Some might have in the past (old men die sometimes even if they are 17th level monks), at the current time period there are none that have more XP then are required to achieve 14th level... or perhaps ...

I'm with DMP on this. I have just one order.
Going strictly by the (1E) book, if there were multiple monk orders, then you would think the leader of the SB would be a top level monk, but he's only 14 ...

I didn't write much about the main keep because frankly in my own version there isn't much there. there are several rooms to explore in there, but other then a few giant rats and one minor trap there ...

personally, I allow most spells with a duration other then instantaneous or permanent to be dismissed by the caster.

according to the 2e player's handbook:

...spells are centered on a point visible to the caster and within the range of the spell.

this would indicate that you do not always have to cast the spel ...

I enjoyed reading the monsters in Horrors of Hepmonaland.
Thanks :)

simply followed the pricing guidelines in the DMG for the ring of arcana, personally I think it is somewhat over priced that way, and if I made it for my home game I would place the market price close ...

All mythologies have the same deities, they just call them other things. that is a gross generalization and not true, even then.

fragarach, prince thrommel's sword in TOEE originally belonged to Lugh of the Longhand, a celtic deity.

interesting... few people who buy minis for RPG purposes really like the random packaging, so I wonder if WotC will change it up to help sales.

I am currently reading Only Hope: Coming of Age Under China's One-Child Policy By Vanessa Fong

Chances are WotC will not "crack down" on fansites such as Canonfire. Since nobody is profiting from the work posted here, WotC would not be likley to be able to successfuly sue for damages, the best ...

it did it again today (using AOL)... but I might have found a way around it... after it gets blanked with the preview I just entered everything again and hit send... of course that likly means a bit m ...

cracking down on fan sites would certainly be a way to alienate thier customer even more then they already have in the last six or seven months... wouldn't surprise me in the least oif WotC did someth ...

you could try the Best of Dragon III... perhaps...

I normaly use AOL or Internet Explorer as my default browser. depending on if I plan on checking my aol email or not when I log on.

no, I am not comparing Van Daniken to to true scholarly works... I was pointing out that publishing companies do not always check into the credentials of thier quthors for non-fiction books as throuro ...

Personally, I prefer hard print for these types of researches, since a publishing house will not devote the time and money necessary to publish an actual book unless the author has legitimate credenti ...

Hey all, I am having a problem submitting articles to canonfire... when I hit the preview button (you have to preview before you can send it) it displayes my title and erases everything that I have pu ...

wow that was fast.... you guys fixed in between the time I amde the previous post on this thread, and another post on the readers workshop board... Shocked

I thought the article was interesting, good background material for the domain of greyhawk area... and I wondered about the title... nice to see some explanation there rasgon :P

the new test theme makes it so that a bunch of my "black box to the side" material doens't display.. out of

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I don't know if I will ever run a Pathfinder RPG game set in greyhawk or not as of yet, I will make that descision once the final rules come out.

I posted a peice of fiction a while back...and I am a fan... does that count?

Here's a [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=545]LINK

I have a suggestion about the background...instead of black, how about a darker grey color instead (by darker I mean a fairly dark shade of grey--slate perhaps, not darker then the current black color ...

yes that is a cool thread.

the flag on the moathouse is the "Eye of Flame", it is not realy the symbol of Tharizdun (which is a spiral), it is more closely linked to the Elder Elemental God (yes I ...

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rufus and burne have arrived at hommlet 3 years ago.

they fought The Battle of Emridy Meadows, but that was like 10 years ago, right?

so, where they have been ? adventuring or hanging out ...

I am glad you guys enjoyed the article :)

It was written by Gary Gygax, and published by Trollord games IIRC in both d20 and LA game systems.

After another year of constant adventuring, they've gained another 4 levels. After a third year, another 2 levels. does the adventuring slow down in that thrid year... because under 1e rules, most cha ...

warmachine is from the D&D Companion Set (So it technically belongs to BECMI D&D rather then true OD&D)... it is the mass combat system I use when such situations come up as well.

In the last few years I have run stable groups of from 2-6 players (with groups of 2-3 having the option to play more then one character if they wish. My current group consists of 4 players each with ...

Thanks Mort :)

To bad the con couldn't be happening around Christmas time... I'll be in Vegas visting my mother then anyway. Around Halloween is really bad timing for me though.

My most recent Greyhawk game took place from 591-596. when I return to greyhawk when I am done running Rise of the Runelords, I think I will start it in 591 again, running concurrently with the event ...

most of the greyhawk novels are not very good IMO, although Temple of Elemental Evil and Tomb of Horrors are alright if you are not hoping to get a lot of greyhawk lore out of them... a lot of people ...

Canons appear mainly in the central Flanaess (Veluna and Verbobonc) among the priesthood of Rao, but there are also canons in the Lendore Isles based on L1 and L2 so we can assume that's a widely occu ...

I am having the same problem (using AOL as my browser).

look to what we know of the modern flan first of all... they tend to have either a celtic (geoff etc.) or native american (Rovers of the barrens, etc.) feel to them... perhaps your ancient flan tomb c ...

nope.

it is nice.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned B2 - Keep on the Borderlands.

the original question was about 1e modules which B2 does not fit into... B2 is definatly on my top 10 favorite module list (in the t ...

my top ten list would look something like:

S2 White Plume Mountian
S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
G3 Hall of the Fire Giant King
UK3 Guantlet
UK4 When a Star Falls
I7 Baltron's Beacon
UK2 Senti ...

if it had been it would have been changed to a rod, undoubtably.... but I am pretty sure that it was not reprinted for either 3.0 or 3.5

By reading The Zombie Survival Guide does this mean you know something we don't? Shocked

I am just trying to prepare for all 2012 possibilities Wink

I just finished The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, and have just started reading Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms by Alistair Moffat.

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride by Michael Wallis.

I agree with wolfsire, break it up.

I am still working on The Analects, and have added Joseph Cambell's The Mask of God: Primitive Mythology to my night stand.

hi all...i know is alittle off topic, but anyone can answer me that one? :)not sure it has ever been adressed officialy before... so why not go with that old Greyhawk standby and make it up (and if i ...

currently reading The Analects of Confucius: With Selections from the Traditional Comentaries Translated by Edward Slingerland.

I understand their system is for the most part a refinement of the 1e AD&D rules; how accurate of an assessment is this?I find it more closley related to a D20 game that attempts to capture the fe ...

if you realize that you would never have enjoyed them again, then letting them go so that somebody else could buy and enjoy them was probably for the best.

I still take one off the shelf and read i ...

Emirikol the Chaotic. Yeah that was a strangely iconic illustration. To get a full page spread in the DMG with his name emblazoned at the bottom, you'd think that NPC was important or something. I hav ...

Thinking back, I seem to recall that it was harder to “die” in the D&D books than in others of the genre. That could be the passage of 20-some odd years on the brain, though.IDK, "Dungeon of Dread ...