Canonfire!

Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:18 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip184a.htm I'm Gencon bound.

Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:42 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip185a.htm And here's how it all went down.

Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:59 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip186a.htm

Heh heh...mini fun!

Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:18 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip187a.htm

Erythnul has issues. ;)

Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:12 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip188a.htm

PUN FIGHT! Shocked

Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:22 am

That was seriously painful, mort. Shocked

In a good way. Happy

Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:04 pm

I only do it because I care. Happy

Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:24 am

Nice work, Mort. Your cultist with the corny sense of humor is very becoming of him. Laughing

Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:22 am

I should mention one thing, mort. I'm currently running Return To The Temple Of Elemental Evil for 2 players and they haven't yet got far enough into it to meet the Doomdreamers. I'm just hoping I can hold the whole thing together when they do meet them.

And you're really not helping at all. Wink

Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:36 pm

Luz: Thanks. The corny cultist wouldn't be half as funny without his straight man though. Who would've thought I'd find a comedy team in this evil pair?

Ragr: Oh my, yeah since starting this comic(@ 3 years) I have yet to use Tharizdun cultists IMC. Now on reflection I'm not sure I could either :S

Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:49 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip189a.htm

GVD offers us another 'cool' article to lampoon! ;)

Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:42 pm

cool!

show us a picture of dragotha!

Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:20 am

Clank! Bring out your dead!

http://www.erikyoder.net/wormy.gif
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Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:42 pm

Classic pic. I -WISH- Trampier would come out of retirement and do Wormy again, but thats like so many pipe dreams concerning D&D.

Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:50 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip190a.htm

Pun fight part 2!

Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:12 am

Arggghhhh!

Make it stop!!! Laughing

Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:24 am

Not very sharp? From a fellow blade, that is cold hearted.
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Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:11 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip191a.htm

Gods in Spaaaaace!

Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:20 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip192a.htm
Congrats Maldin!

Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:44 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip193a.htm

Delleb talks about the Flanaess' best sailors...

Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:56 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip194a.htm

Graz'zts back! Happy

Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:09 am

The Iuz sextuptlets!

Actually, my theory for divine ascension by mortals is that they have to find and defeat/absorb all their alternate selves in parallel primes (much like in The One). Grazz't is divine - he was only One. But his son Iuz is mortal, so there were born multiple Iuz's in many differnent worlds. The Iuz of Oerth (the one who ascended) traveled to these different worlds and overcame the other Iuz's to absorb their power and ascend.

Thus, in my campaign the remains in the Soul Husks caverns are just these - the other five of the Iuz sextuplets, as it were.

Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:48 pm

Damn Kirt, that's a pretty chilling and cool idea if you use the alternate Oerths as I am prone to. It certainly is as plausible as other theories I've read.

Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:16 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip195a.htm
Trick or Treat!

Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:45 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip196a.htm

Pholtus philosophizes gambling?

Fri Nov 07, 2008 3:50 am

Hey, I like this last one!

Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:24 pm

I'm glad you appreciated the humor on that one, it took longer to decide on dialogue than to draw/color it.

Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:14 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip197a.htm

And back to our regular scheduled program...

Mon Nov 17, 2008 12:35 pm Still looking sharp!

Hi all,

I believe that any reference to The Muppet show is a good reference. Keep up the "Gods in Spaace!" story!

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:15 pm

And thank you for acknowledging the reference, Scottenkainen! I so do love that old show and anything Muppet related. Happy

Sat Nov 22, 2008 12:00 am

No comic this week, expect me to make it up next week. Sowwy!

Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:50 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip198a.htm

Tada, early! More this week.... Wink

Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:00 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip199a.htm

Part two of the new saga. My #200 special is next week! Happy

Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:01 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip200a.htm At last! I have reached the 200 plateau! Enjoy!

Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:35 pm

Bravo indeed! And you even got this one posted before noon! Shocked

Needfest awaits! Wink

Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:10 pm

Hey! Congrats on the milestone, Mort! Happy

Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:57 pm

You did it ! and did it wonderfully !! Happy

Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:31 am

Hey Mort-
Thanks for the credit, I'll have to put it on my resume...And maybe I could get an Associate Producer credit when you get the movie made...Anyway, congrats on the first 200, now get back to work on the next 200 Laughing

...
Kwint Pendick

Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:49 am

Awesome 200!

"The deities of Greyhawk especially lent themselves as humorous characters, much like the gods of Greek mythology, because they think and act just as human as the human beings who worshiped them."

Made me remember of the myth of Thor in a wedding dress ... then think Kord in garter belts.
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Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:11 am

Kord in garters? Shudder!

Thanks everyone for the comments. 200 was fun putting together, now I have to put on the ol thinking cap and get back to the weekly grind.

Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:18 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip201a.htm

Back to it. Here's a light hearted one. :)

Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:59 am

I don't get it. Maybe it would have made more sense it Trithereon said something other than "Wha WHA WHA wha".

http://www.mtv.com/lyrics/dishwalla/charlie_brown_s_parents/369688/lyrics.jhtml
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Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:25 pm

I had pondered that Wolfsire then it donned on me that Trithereon was summoning them to his plane so dialogue is okay. (thats my story and im sticking to it)

Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:28 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip202a.htm
Needfest is almost here!

Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:30 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/needfest4/wogstrip203intro.htm

I almost didn't get it done in time. Whew! Boccob bless us, everyone!

Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:47 am

This is too funny. I was about to post "Mortellen has until 11:59 PM, PST to get the Needfest comic done so as to officially count it as a Needfest comic." Laughing

Good job of getting in turned in a mere 30 minutes into the actual holiday. Now, I'm off to go read and enjoy it. Cool

Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:26 am

Whew! Well thank goodness I made the deadline and I even had spare time to finish up my cast page as an extra. It was a ginormous project that I had to make a strict work schedule for in order to get through that last week.

Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:36 am

congratulations! great story, i loved that st. cuthbert-"claus" look

Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:12 am

Woo! I enjoyed this comic. It's a good celebration of the quirkiness of the many obscure Greyhawk gods.

Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:43 pm

Thanks rossik! Cuthbert serendiptously is associated with Needfest -and- Earth in canon so its been an easy parody to justify.

Rasgon: Thank you too! Thats a high compliment from you indeed!

Fri Dec 26, 2008 11:04 pm

He, he. That was great, Mort!

I loved the shot of the elves making magic items...elven cloak, elven chain, elven boots, and elven...? Is that a particular kind of bow?

Kirt

Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:39 am

You have an eye for detail Kirt, I like that. I suppose if one is a 3rd edition player that could be an Oathbow. I don't remember any 1e/2e elf specific bows though I'm sure there are ones. What you didn't pick out was the sword Darny is enchanting at the time. It is Bilbo's short sword Sting from the LotR movies which if I recall is elven made and detects orcs as referenced in the comic. Wink

Tue Dec 30, 2008 9:53 am

Ah, I don't know 3E. If I had to guess, I was going to say a "Bow with ribbons" from Munchkin.

Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:51 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip204a.htm

Happy New Year!

Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:27 am

My resolution for 2009 is to read the WOG comic from n° 1 to 200!

Thanks for the fun, Mortellan.

Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:06 pm

1-200 in one sitting, I don't think I've even done that. Too busy working on the next ones I guess ;)

Thu Jan 08, 2009 8:20 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip205a.htm

The adventure continues...

Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:42 am

Enjoyable as always.

Wastri, Handsome Hope of the Hobbits!
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Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:28 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip206a.htm

CATACLYSM!

Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:35 am

Funny!

Just to be a pain, note that in Frank Mentzer's phonetic spelling, "Y" is pronounced like "eye" (as in "gyd"). So I'm pretty sure "Yooze" was intended to be pronounced "eyeooze." There ought to have been a hyphen, but that's my theory.

Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:22 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip207a.htm

For Ricardo!

Thu Jan 22, 2009 2:14 pm

As I am watching the intro sequence (continue to comic?..NO WAIT!!!)
I can't help thinking a little music would be cool. Like maybe a wav file
embedded in the strip?

For example...

http://www.barbneal.com/wav/tvthemes/startrek.wav

starting at about 32 seconds in...

can you do that?
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Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:23 pm

Dunno Kirt, I can try. Sound would be a quantum leap for my skills. Smile

Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:30 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip208a.htm

Damn those goblins!

Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:01 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip209a.htm

Me and this book have been through alot.

Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:31 pm

Well, Mortellan, I guess this is the ultimate proof of love a book can get.
Doesn't Delleb agree? Or is He the kind of bibliophilomaniac who has libraries full of books, and opens none (as I am a little bit...) Embarassed

Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:51 am

Ive got a DMG worse than that. Even the remedial duck tape has worn off. Laughing

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Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:46 pm

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Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:21 pm

Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:13 pm

Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:34 am

There is something about that Quill of Delleb's, maybe it is like a flash drive storing info and 'prints out' any topic he wants on paper.

Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:37 am

Thu Feb 12, 2009 9:22 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip210a.htm

Happy V-Day?

Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:33 pm

LoL. Inspired!
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:53 pm

Oh, Gruumsh, you rapscallion! (I found that bit disturbing, actually).

Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:00 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip211a.htm

If you found Gruumsh disturbing then you'll find this one much more entertaining!

Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:23 pm

I have sympathy for the old devil. The same thing happened to a good friend of mine in Acererak's gaff many years ago.

Twice. The moral; don't go sticking your head through strange holes in the wall.

Top quality as ever, mort. Laughing

Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:47 pm

Thanks Ragr! Your words kind of make me nostalgic to run it again! Acererak was an inspired choice as I did this comic at the deadline. In dealing with that comic's subject I easily could've went with the popular Vecna, or even Kyuss and Kas who have been in my comic before. But I'm glad I used the demi-lich instead. He was much easier to draw and color because well, he's just a skull. Go procrastination! ;)

Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:55 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip212a.htm

This message will self-destruct in 10 seconds...

Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:18 pm

Reminds me the auto-destruct scene in Mel Brooks' movie Spaceballs.

Will you use the famous Gygax' panic button? I'd like to see its effects.

Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:47 am

Damn you, mort. I just spent an hour staring at that episode and I can't remember a bloomin' thing. Did you have to insert that picture from the old PH? I drifted off into the land of nostalgia and can't get anything done, now.

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!! Mad

Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:53 pm

LoL, apparently Ragr's brain had a self-destruct keyed to that magic mouth pic. Whoops!

Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:25 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip213a.htm

I know it's pronounced both ways.... Wink

Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:08 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip214a.htm

The writing's on the wall...

Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:41 am Off The Wall

Hi all -
Well, here's my guess for this weeks riddle.

R - Giant, Huge,
A - Anger, Quarrel
X - Strength (the symbol used is an X with a cross in the middle of the two lines)- although, he could have used the X symbol for Poison, Antidote
I - God

V - Win, Victory
O - Demonic, Demon Power
R - Torch
T - Thrall, Prisoner

My first response to this riddle is:
Raxi = Giant God of Strength and Anger (Kord)
Vort = Demonic Prisoner Has Victory by Torching (Iuz - he torches an area of woods near High Folk)

I can see why Raxi Vort might put Iuz's name within his own. Grazz't knows the runes meaning and sees it as a jab at him because his son was captured by Zagyg-muffin. But I'm not certain as to the actual reason.

I also don't understand the Kord reference. It could be Hextor, but I don't think he's associated with giants. If he used the rune for Poison instead of Strength, then it certainly could be a Incabulos. There I'd say God of Huge Poisonings Leading to Massive Quarrels.

However, I'm more inclined to use the below as my answer - but I'm hung up on the rune of Strength vs Poison - because it's clearly a Strength rune.

If it were the Poison rune, and combined I could say that the reference was to Pyremius. Being the Blazing Killer (Torch), Demon of Venom (Demon + Poison) and Hideous Assassin. His holy symbol is also that of "a demonic face with ears like a bat's wings." This might be a connection to Raxivort. With the Win/Victory rune, this could be in relation to his winning of Ranet's portfolio after he assassinated her. He also breeds Anger and Quarrels within his church as clerics have Huge internal feuds.

Well now that I've spent 45min trying to figure this all out...and considering that I'm my own heretic with my moving my Church of the One True Path to Golarion with the Crusading Church of the One True Path of Iomedae, I can't figure it out. I do love the WoG 1.0 playing in WoG 2.0 (but I wish Pholtus were playing Iomedae, although its not a perfect fit).

Be Well. Be Well Answered.
Theocrat Issak

P.S. edit: I'm unsure of how often that site is updated. I'm going to contact the owner via the mailto link. I didn't know GeoCities was still around but I think that is the perfect fit for GreyhawkOnline.com. Anybody know if the person is still active?
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:17 am Re: Off The Wall

I think it's Raxivort bragging about how his gigantic rage and strength has made him a god. When Graz'zt was imprisoned by Iggwilv, Raxivort was celebrating his victory over Graz'zt's demonic power by the torch of his flaming blue hand.

A more literal interpretation of "giant god of strength and anger" would be Grolantor, the hill giant god. But why would Raxivort care about Grolantor? I like my interpretation better.

Pyremius's symbol is actually the head of a yagnoloth, so definitely no Raxivort connection there.

Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:13 pm Rasgon Knows All

Hi all -
Rasgon Knows All.....Even as a Theocrat I must bow to a higher power. Well, here Rasgon knows s frak-ton more than I will ever know. Frak, he's likely forgotten more than I'll even know (even if I didn't switch to WoG 2.0).
It took me 45min of research to come up with something - I like what I came up with, but only if it was Poison and not Strength. It likely took Rasgon 10min to recall, research and type out his impression. Damn all you WoG 1.0 Knowledgeable People (including that damnable Mortellan!).

Be Well. Be Well in Knowledge.
Theocrat Issak

P.S. Edit: Mort, my laptop died. But I didn't lose stuff, it's just a matter of backing up, new PC, installing new/ replacement software and such. I'll hopefully get you those promised Disks of Wondrous Power in the next week.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:51 pm

man, do i love those comics....

(PS: now it should be official 2009 GH wc topic;))

Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:49 pm

I hope all your Holy Artifacts are up and running soon theocrat. And this new splinter reality church of Iomedae you have sounds interesting. Always good to have you on the side of Law.

As to the runic interpretations, there is no 100% right answer but Rasgon is always a sharp eye when it comes to these things. I was close to using the Glyph for 'Poison' antidote then figured no self respecting evil creature would care about the cure for poison and likewise I could've used the rune for 'Fire' but seeing as it was followed by the Torch rune I decided that might be redundant. All in all it was amusing that I saw Raxivort's name first in the runes. Are there any other proper GH names that can be created out of the limited set?

Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:16 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip215a.htm
The hourglass is uh, sifting...

Thu Mar 26, 2009 6:15 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip216a.htm

FEH! Cultists!

Fri Mar 27, 2009 9:39 am

Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:21 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip217a.htm

Belated April Fool!

Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:55 am

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip218a.htm

RIP Dave Arneson

Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:10 am

http://mortellan.livejournal.com/

If any one wants a leg up on what I'm working on, I've started a blog of random Greyhawkness.

Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:47 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip219a.htm

CATACLYSM!

Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:39 pm

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/wogcomic/title/wogstrip220a.htm

Every man for himself!

Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:59 pm

FYI, the kanteel, spelled "kantele" in the sources I can find (and pronounced "kant-uh-luh" in this Youtube video), was the stringed instrument invented by the Finnish hero Väinämöinen in the Kalevala. Great Myths and Legends from World Book, Inc. describes it as "a five-stringed harplike instrument." Väinämöinen made his from the jawbone of a giant pike he slew and strung it with some hair taken from some young women he had summoned with his magic.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele

Gary Gygax talking about Finnish mythology: http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/161566-gary-gygax-q-part-x-14.html

Here's an illustration of the pike-jaw kantele from Great Myths and Legends, although it has too many strings, and it looks nothing like any kantele I've seen elsewhere:

An authentic traditional kantele from this site:

This is probably why the first edition Monster Manual had giant pikes in it.

Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:47 pm

Shawn with arundo donax reeds?!?! I fletch those and and toss them as darts at vorpal bunnies with my atlatl! Ooga Booga!
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