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Funny how the edition which must not be named isn't named.

-Funny how everyone immediately knew what you were talking about. Wink

When and Where to set it?

The module recommends making the town of Oredeep Havenhill (spelled "Haverhill", p. 187). Additionally, Oredeep is described as a medium-sized walled city (p.22), whi ...

Yep. I was wondering when someone was going to suggest a Gord the Rogue book. Smile

...the ultimate source, I suppose.

...Any good story has to have a sympathetic character, a problem, and a r ...

...If someone were to produce a Greyhawk movie, and the producer came to you and asks where in the Flanaess would you want it set...

-Saga of Old City, with Gord arriving at Rookroost until the end ...

From the AD&D DMG:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/DungeonMasterGuide4Cover.jpg

...I remember reading somewhere that the magic user in Mordenkainen, the fighter is Robilar, an ...

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Four mercenary captains. Each is attempting to convince the Castellan of t ...

A while ago, there was a thread which featured photos of places throughout the world, and what place it could be on Oerth. (BTW, if anyone could find it, give it a bump. It's a thread which could use ...

...However, not Greyhawk, but . . .

...I'm not against conversions (sometimes, I get a kick out of doing them), but you'd think there's be something.

...Gaz 3 The Emirates of Ylaruam has a detai ...

I'm a big fan of bases of operations. In T1, Hommlet is just as interesting as the Moathouse. In L1, Restenford is almost as interesting as the entire sandbox outside of Restenford, and more interesti ...

...I know that there have been others, since.

-Found it:

http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=8987

At least one thread on the topic:

www.canonfire.com/cf//modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4291&start=25

...I know that there have been others, since.

... not mentions of a stat such as his level being 19 versus 15 in Rogues Gallery.

-Keep in mind that his level and stats would have changed over time.

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How much of this got developed?

Huh. I find it incredible that of all the forts, the SB can't control the one fort that guards the cape of the Amedio. It must be well-defended.

--Per "T ...

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Welcome!

You can introduce yourself over on Welcome to Greyhawk.

question: is there any nation in the Flanaess (after the Great Kingdom) that is willing to mount an expedition to circumnavigate the continent of Oerik? ...

-Ratikans made it to Fireland,, why not ...

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...Anyone out there run the module Red Hand of Doom in the Flanaess before? I was curious as to where you set this module and if there are any pitfalls or things I need to keep a special eye ...

My wife lifts weights and goes to female weight lifting competitions. I like to think that she has an 18 maybe 19 in Strength.

-The obvious delicate question is, does she weigh 90 pounds?

Anyone have an idea where I can add the minoan tradition of bull leaping in Greyhawk?

...and...

I guess I'm on my own for this. Hmm, need somewhere where young athletes in skimpy clothing can l ...

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I was looking through module Falcon's Revenge (WGA1), and noticed that Mora Zinn, a human female 5' 6" and 90 pounds, has a STR score of 18. Someone obviously put no thought into THAT one. :r ...

Are/were they Oeridian, or some heretofore unidentified ethnicity?

-Worship of Stratis would indicate that there were people of Oeridian descent in Western Oerik, although not necessarily Lynn. Or ...

Aha! I now believe Cevin and Enkar Efstri are Vince and Karen Streif of Madison, WI. I wonder if they were martial arts practitioners back in the day.

-I'm impressed that you may have gotten "Vince ...

I remember the whole Waldorf thing (some of the responses were hilarious: "blow gun needle of cheater slaying" IIRC ;) , but missed the reference in TAB. Thanks!

I was looking at Lendore Island. On Anna's map, Garroten is to the east of Restenford, Lake Farmin to the west. Garroten is just another name for Lake Farmin, and if you combine the L1 and L2 maps, an ...

...Personally, those are just a big ol’ meh sandwich to me...

-I get it, but I figure that they're better than nothing, and they fill a gap in the canon. They certainly make sense. Again, to avoid ...

Looking through some old AD&D2 modules, I found some spells, "Bewilder" and "Priest Lock" from WGA1, and "Water Bomb" from WGA2, that didn't seem to make it into later editions. Can anyone think o ...

For some reason I seems to remember that 1/4th of subdual damage is real (lethal) damage. I'm not sure if that is a 5th edition rule however...

-It changed from edition to edition. I modified this ...

Looking through some old AD&D2 modules, I found some spells, "Bewilder" and "Priest Lock" from WGA1, and "Water Bomb" from WGA2, that didn't seem to make it into later editions. Can anyone think o ...

I thought I created a thread on minor, obscure deities a while ago, but I can't find it.

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Len Lakofka's The Kroten Campaign, p. 11 (Hobgoblin deities):

Kesgar (Lord of Tunneling and Mi ...

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I look at an often-overlooked Greyhawk novel; Nightwatch.

-If it's 50 years in the future, the Horned Society could have been revived.

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-In 591, Phoebus is the mayor of Greatrock in the Hardby domains (Slavers, p. 47)...

-DOH! I read this a while ago, but forgot to note it:

Sometime in the 590s, Phoebus retires to live in t ...

Roger Moore included a few Easter eggs and inside jokes in The Adventure Begins, like Waldorf the Archmage. Remembering Waldorf’s history from Dragon, I know exactly how to run that NPC should my PCs ...

Nyrond has always seemed to be the place where adventure goes to die. Has there ever been much materiel published on it? I'm mostly interested in pre-wars stuff, but take anything at this point.

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...Monte wrote good modules even though I don't like his use of Tharizdun and EEG...

-Yeah, I would just ignore the Tharizdun thing.

I was a little disappointed that the demographic profile for ...

I was studying the article "Seltaren"... and noticed the character of Valerius Tolaesur...

Agath of Thrunch is mentioned in that Dungeon as spending much of his time at the Azure Arcaneum, a libr ...

Of course, once we go that far, "man-at-arms" used to mean the equivalent of a knight and was not a generic term for a grunt guard.

-I remember seeing examples of guys here were rated as "men-at- ...

I just started reading through it. Great! A quibble concerning one of my real life hobby horses, tactical proficiency:

Most of the "Levied" would mostly be 0 level Men (maybe 1-6 or 1-8 hps), and " ...

Slavers, p. 66 details a team, led by a priestess of Kelanin named Fina Fen Kela, trying to resurrect Kelanen's temple in Elredd. It is described as "...a small group consisting of two priests, two ra ...

Anyone have the skill set to come up with the equivalent of these:

https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map

https://www.explorefall.com/fall-foliage-map

...for the Flannaess?

You could ...

In the Northanchor based adventure, "Hunt for the Cofre del Mar", the marines are described as 3rd level Experts with 11 Constitution and 24 hit points (p. 53). No hit point-adding feats. How does an ...

How did I miss this thread?!

All faiths would teach religion and philosophy, in one form or another.

Metalwork/smithing and alchemy include chemistry.

A lot of faiths would teach some form o ...

...In which adventure is he listed as a Lizardman?

-Slavers.

...But I'd like your thoughts on this spell. Did you use it? Do you like it's effects? Do you think it's overpowered? How did you make it Greyhawk based?

-FWIW, recurring character Phoebus, mos ...

Belgos and Silussa (Vault of the Drow) feature in at least two later adventures...

-I missed the obvious question: Which later adventures?

...Two of the pregenerated NPC from the City of Skulls: Kendral and Carlenna got married after that adventure and are still hunting down the forces of Iuz in the Palace of Vecna (Die, Vecna, Die)

...

While coming up with a spell, "Damper Damage" ( ) for entirely different reasons, it occurred to me that it (or a feat, as some suggest) would be really handy for a pacifist character, which in turn ...

Well, I don't have many pacifists playing in my games...

-I was in a game where one of the other players had one, but in a dopey way (didn't want to hurt a tiger that attacked us). I considered pla ...

I originally did this for D&D 3.5, but AD&D2 wouldn't be much different:

1st Level
Damper Damage (Abjuration)

Sphere: All
Range: Personal
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 r ...

I originally did this for D&D 3.5, but AD&D wouldn't be much different:

Damper Damage
1st-level (Abjuration)
Level: 1
Range: Personal
Duration: 1 round/level
Area of Effect: ...

...You might consider making it a feat, instead of a spell.

-Might be a worthwhile feat for a pacifist, saving a spell slot.

I originally did this for D&D 3.5, but D&D 5 wouldn't be much different:

Damper Damage
1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Personal
Components: V, S
Duration ...

Damper Damage
Abjuration
Level: Brd 1, Clr 1, Drd 5, Pal 1, Rgr 1, Sor/Wiz 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 minute/level ...

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Interesting. Although I'm unsure where Kalstrand is...

-South Province/Kingdom of Ahlissa.

There's a slave market in "Kalstrand" in Oerth Journal #17.

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...Or, in the LG story, maybe the devil that killed them collected their souls, somehow?

-Uh, I don't believe I let that go without a "what?". Evil Grin

Some reconciling here with one of ...

The Taregs on the border of the Abbor Alz and the Bright Desert make their living off kidnapping people for ransom or to sell as slaves.

I always figured the Suel Barbarians had something along the ...

...Slavery in the Flanaess, I wonder if it's widespread (not in the Domain of Greyhawk, though)...

-The humanoids have slavery, including throughout the Pomarj and Bone March, including those where ...

looking at adding a drow or half-drow PC to the group and te question came up around how they would be received by local populations. Obviously elves would instantly perceive the drow heritage, but in ...

I was studying the article "Seltaren" in Oerth Journal #23 (pp. 13, 18-19) about that town sometime in in 590s and noticed the character of Valerius Tolaesur. Based on his description, I thought he re ...

How do you feel about Warmages and their worship of either Boccob or We Jas? I felt they should worship Hextor, Heironeous, or Kord.

-Theoretically, a warmage could worship all of them at the same ...

Bluto is described as a "paunchy, red-haired man," in River of Blood, so he was likely of Suel ancestry...

-Oeridians are also described as having reddish hair ("brown and reddish brown are most co ...

...PPS, the percentage of inhabitants for each race in "Oldridge" (issue #2) only adds up to 86.6%...

-With further research, out of a population of 1,521, there are at least 1 troll, 1 fire genasi ...

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I thought "Prying Eyes" was an excerpt of "The Bloody Eye", but it's actually a prelude to "The Bloody Eye", set about two years prior (see Calmet's comment to Laud on p. 148). BTW, "Prying ...

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Enjoy!

-I did!

What's the timeline for Fidelis, Salema, and Urash in "Wild Heroes of the Wild Coastwild Heroes of the Wild Coast" (issue ...

Quick question!
... I'm wondering if there are other temples dedicated to teaching the martial arts besides those in the Scarlet Brotherhood...

Xan Yae and Zuoken, as Lareth mentioned, would be th ...

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...I'm not aware how Kopf is related in any way to capital, which is Hauptstadt in german. (At last not any more than head is related to capital.)...

-Like "Kopf", "Capit" also means ...

...my most immediate face to face campaigns are set in the Forgotten Realms and Eberron...

The campaign will be set in 591 CY. We will use D&D 3rd Edition. I could set it in the City of Greyha ...

It's strange that there was never a "Music" domain, which would have fit Lydia, Ye'Cind, and Heward (after becoming a Hero-Deity), and maybe Corellian Lorethian, Kundo, Olidammara, and Vergadain.

Y ...

I was wondering how people like this class from D&D 3.x. I like the premise of it, to be sure...

-It sort of fills in for the multi-class fighter-thief from AD&D1 and AD&D2 in the way ...

"Eye of the Serpent" is accused of being railroady, which is not necessarily the end of the world, but the initial set-up is rather contrived. I could see a pair of rocs capturing four people and depo ...

1) Can anyone suggest some stock phrases NPCs might use to praise Zeech?

-I don't have anything specific, but I'd like to see the results.

Some ideas:

1) IIRC, the invitation refers to Zee ...

The Greyhawk Wiki for Phaulkon
( https://ghwiki.greyparticle.com/index.php/Phaulkon ) under "Worshippers" states: "An abbey to Phaulkon once existed in the town of Restenford on Lendore Isle, but it ...

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For some reason, "Adventures in Greyhawk" puts "Wedding Bells" on the northwest side of the Rieuwood, in the Hollow Highlands? I'm not feeling it. The meeting of the two rivers with the west ...

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I took a look at "Adventures in Greyhawk" and "Greyhawk Modules Locations", but didn't see anything for UK5 Eye of the Serpent. Reviews put in the "OK" category, and the "Roc drops you and a ...

Welcome, Nerdyprofessor!

...I still use the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer for my campaigns. It just gives too much information.

-I assume that the LGG is the "real" info', while the the Savant-Sage ...

..A pdf "players guide to nyrond 598 cy" has more and a good map...

-I wasn't aware of this. Great stuff. Thanks!

Here's a quick

-A poster described this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4mqt69VZ28

...as 1 hour of nuance for a 6 minute video. Wink

https://greyhawkonline.com/oerthjournal/

I thought Roger Moore left the D&D-verse forever, and didn't even want to be asked about it. If he's back, I welcome his return.

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https://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2013/04/swords-wizardry-appreciation-day.html
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-Bodenberg Castle is sitting in my guest room/storage right now. I never actually used it, but I've been p ...

Is this what we're talking about?

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/503631/greyhawk-expanded-a-player-s-guide-to-oerik

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/506397/greyhawk-expanded-the- ...

Could someone remind me where the Nehri settled in the current Flanaess?

-Nyrond (Nehr/Nyr).

... In the real world there are examples where young adults reach the pinnacle of their fields - sports being the most obvious. But the game is built around awarding experience for obstacles that ar ...

It is definitely not anything Kyuss would have had before the Twin Cats without some hard jiggery pokery with tech development and collapse that shows up in some fantasy but is harshly anachronistic ...

All this is from my own campaign, so take from it what you will.

First, there are many different 'Flan' nations. The Rovers of the Barrens are a different people than the Flan of Perrenland. The pe ...

What do you mean by "plate armor"?

-FWIW, I assume that all obvious points are covered by plate, not mail. Mail is still used to protect chinks (armpits, crook of the elbow, crook of the knee).
...

I've finally posted the full-sized image of my Oerik map. Click the link to get the big map. It's the older version, but folks have been asking for it a lot over the years, and I figured I might never ...

I'm talking to one of my players right now. And she wants to adventure in Furyondy...

-I thought we just had this conversation? http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtop ...

...he offered to play Iuz. He thinks I won't be able to play Iuz in the correct way...

-Iuz gets a lot of characterization in Artifact of Evil (2nd Gord book).

...He says that Iuz has an extens ...

...I understand that City of Skulls, which I have never owned or read but have learned about over the years via discussions here and/or in the old GreyTalk listserv, features the kind of high-level ...

...the group needs to level up.

Should I run them through an easy adventure to start with? Something like Palace of the Silver Princess? Or Keep on the Borderlands? Just wondering what you sugges ...

...As far as the Ecology of the Piercer goes, it is right from the article itself in Dragon Magazine Issue 72...

-IIRC, it was an APR issue, and had a note that pointed out that it was NOT a joke a ...

...I believe it would be far better to argue that the ancient Suel culture had simply advanced to a place where their wizards had learned to harness such powerful magic and that with the death of thos ...

...“I want to play Greyhawk, but I don’t know it well enough.”

Yes, you can, because yes, you do. Well, presuming you bother to acquire and read at least one of the setting books. Those of us start ...

...I always enjoyed the Ecology of... articles because they helped my suspension of disbelief by providing a fantasy equivalent of a biology lesson on the various monsters.

-I use those as refere ...

...I guess some of the more enigmatic figures (like Philidor the Blue and Cobb Darg) would be hard to do without major spoilers...

-You could offer a host of different options:

http://www. ...

...I rull a Urnst campain and i was wondering about the coherence of the NPS levels in the world. To be clear, how many 16+ clerics can be found in this country, the same for mages and so on..

...S ...

...Maybe one approach might be to decide that the elevation of a mortal to demigod of a particular alignment permits the elevation of an oppositionally-aligned demigod, and then the question would b ...

...If a graduate course costs more than an undergraduate course, then schools are indeed charging the experienced person more than an inexperienced person...

1) That's not "level";

2) FWIW, it's ...

...Tell me, if you use the training rules, how do the trainers know how much to charge for the training if nobody knows what level they are?

-IRL, we don't charge people based on their level, we ch ...

He does not. The DM does...

-But a the NPC should limit himself to what the NPC would know, just as the PC should be limited by what the player would know. On one hand, the PC might get off easy, i ...