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Initially, I was with DM Prata. But I always found the reason for the distinction unsatisfying.

My first (and, really only) experience with orogs and ogrillons was in the Greyhawk Ruins mega-dungeo ...

There was also Animals Appendix: Equines, by Samwise, in Visions of Greyhawk #2.

https://canonfire.greyparticle.com/visionsofgreyhawk/

I probably should have clarified in my post that I stopped with 3.5, so when I saw Artificer, I thought of the Eberron version, which is why I associated it with Baklunish magic. I have no idea what t ...

I toyed with the idea of Warforged being ancient Baklunish creations, related to the magitech that created things like the Apparatus of Kwalish. Instead of being recently created for a war and then se ...

The 1E Monster Manual II had a Duke named Bael, with one "a". He was one of Mammon's lieutenants, which could tie into the wealth aspect.

In order, they're: the intersection near the entrance, the corpse that you start this version of the quest by finding, the exterior of the mountain, the weapons, the "flesh golems", a "kelpie" chasing ...

I haven't been able to get the lava flows working yet, that should pour into my version of the "boiling bubble", but it's done.

https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/48280/

It's at rpg.net, in the D&D/fantasy d20 subforum, in the "Let's Read" thread for the 3e Book of Vile Darkness. (A thread mainly discussing how terrible the book was.)

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That was my reaction. They've always been evil would-be world conquerors. I wondered if there had maybe been a brief plan to change that which someone knew about.

Now that I think about it, this ...

On another forum, a poster mentioned an unpublished 3e Greyhawk deity sourcebook and made an odd comment. They were talking about their participation in playtesting and how the details of various cle ...

Well, except mistletoe is hunted in winter, towards Christmas (Solstice).

The 1e Player's Handbook said that greater mistletoe was harvested on Midsummer's Eve, cut with a gold or silver sickle, an ...

My plan is to eventually adapt S1-3 (and maybe S4). Expedition to the Barrier Peaks should work well as a massive Dwemer ruin. Someone created a Tomb of Horrors mod years ago, but it barely resemble ...

I'm actually working on a Morrowind mod based on White Plume Mountain for the upcoming May Modathon. It's something I've wanted to do since the game came out in 2002, and I want to include a final ba ...

Does anyone know of any fan-created versions of the lower level of White Plume Mountain? Keraptis' Indoctrination Chamber and his actual lair, referenced, but not included in the original adventure. ...

Some errata I noticed.

In the Baklunish section, the Elemental Focus feat reproduces the text from Saddle Born. Assuming it's the same feat that was in Dragon #319, it should say:

"The Baklunis ...

Over on rpg.net, there's a Where I Read thread for the 1e Fiend Folio. It's reached the section on the Elemental Princes of Evil, which has resulted in a digression into a discussion of the structure ...

If it's the same adventure that's in the Downloads section here at Canonfire (which I just recently downloaded and read), there are several rooms filled with magical darkness that I would recommend re ...

Not an adventure per se, but the Scarlet Brotherhood sourcebook mentioned that there's a bay near Hepmonaland that's prone to patches of mysteriously toxic water and attacks by strange monsters. This ...

Distinct regions where the god of death is Wee Jas instead of Nerull makes more sense to me and I wish there was some sort of demographic map of Flanaess.

Wee Jas and Nerull are different types o ...

However, the 1983 World of Greyhawk boxed set did label certain gods as "common," meaning they were worshiped in most areas, and certain gods were not designated common, implying they were worshiped o ...

It seems that I was wrong about the desire for a live action movie.
According to this article about the Dreamworks situation:
http://deadline.com/2014/11/dreamworks-animation-hasbro-merger-negotiati ...

I've never heard of a module called EE3, and neither has google.

Part of the Elder Elemental God pentology, a set of adventures that used to be on the Codex of Greyhawk site.

They appear to st ...

With the first D&D movie being terrible, and the second and third being direct-to-video/SyFy Channel (but better than the first), I would question whether D&D is considered a viable movie prop ...

Iuz gained his divinity before Zagyg's trap.
Is there a definitive source for this?

In Sargent-era products, Iuz didn't attain godhood until his imprisonment/freedom.

I was going by the order ...

Iuz gained his divinity before Zagyg's trap.

According to more recent sources, clerics of trapped deities can gain spells if they're in proximity to something sacred to their deity.

The Living G ...

I don't recognize the paladin, the dwarven cleric, or the white-robed, good wizard.

The extra characters are from the 1982 D&D action figure line.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m294 ...

During a discussion on another forum about what makes Greyhawk "different", someone referred to Celestian as "The God of Space (and the Far Realms per Living Greyhawk)".

Is this something that was ...

I was thinking a musical instrument of some kind.
The article featured a magical harp and a magical flute used by high-ranking members of the orders. Not the Knights of the Serenade, of course...

The closest that I can find is an article by Eric Boyd and Joe Katzman which used to be online but seems to be gone now. Fortunately, I printed a hard copy years ago.

This article didn't mention h ...

There's this one.

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ripvanwormer/media/Sterich.jpg.html

From this thread.
http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=8469

The Oerth is largely unknown, but one known place it makes sense for Dragonborn to be found is the Pinnacles of Azor'alq.

Dragonborn are easier to incorporate if you use the original 3.5 Dragonbo ...

Change their appearance slightly and make them a product of Baklunish clockwork magic, like the Apparatus of Kwalish.
Far rarer than they are in Eberron, obviously.

"Iuz the Evil" has a map in the Horned Lands chapter.
It doesn't seem to be online though.

It happened right after WotC cancelled Paizo's publishing license for Dragon and Dungeon magazines. They switched to online-only digital magazines.

Kind of like when they cancelled Code Monkey's l ...

I do believe that is the hint of a smile forming on her lips as she drops down in the midst of the PCs with closed fist raised menacingly. Here comes the Whirlwind Attack at + AWESOME!!! to hit! Now ...

The principal reason as I recall was game balance so that PCs who happened to not bring along or have the appropriate magic/silver/cold iron weapon still had a chance to defeat such creatures

I've ...

In the aforementioned Dark Ages article, a pantheon priest was any non-chaotic alignment because, in that specific setting, their primary concern was serving their community by acting as an intermedia ...

There's an article in Dragon (I forget the issue, but it had a Flaneass article in it) which details the Anglo-Saxon pantheon, and includes general pantheon clerics.

Dragon #263.
"Hearth & Swo ...

As jamesdglick indicated, it originated in The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror, and it also appeared in the 1e Unearthed Arcana and the 2e Encyclopedia Magica.

From the latter:
This is a short, thick ...

The Shadow Weave isn't generic, I just sometimes adapt elements of other worlds for Greyhawk use.
e.g. Eberron Artificers adapted as Kwalish-esque Baklunish clockwork mages or some of the titan blood ...

Assuming that the Serpent is more than just a delusion rattling around in Vecna's skull, has anyone experimented with adapting some of the Shadow Weave material from the Forgotten Realms as a twisted ...

The description of Ectoplasmic Form in the 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook says "You also can't manipulate objects or activate items, even those carried along with you.", so no throwing ectoplasmic wea ...

I read on Grayhawk Wiki there is there the Baba Jaga's Hut and Iuz himself is decedent to her.

It's was generally accepted by fans that "Natasha the Dark" an adopted human daughter of Baba Yaga wh ...

Mortellan posted a review over on his blog and was pretty positive.

http://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-article-hochoch.html

The new article in Dragon #418 is Backdrop: Hochoch by Claudi ...

There were also 3e Ogrillons in The Tome of Horrors, the book from Sword & Sorcery Studios that updated a huge number of 1e monsters to 3e (mostly B-list monsters that WotC had no intention to upd ...

I ignore the "he can use 10 powers in one round" thing because the vast majority of mortals don't have that kind of concentration. Not even Psionicsts.

"Okay. I'm going to hit him with Ballistic A ...

It's been a while since I've read the 1st edition rules on it. Does it really say each can be used once every ten seconds? If so, I think it was an oversight in the editing. As far as I know, a charac ...

Not really relevant to this topic, but I thought it would be interesting to share.

I recall someone on another forum (rpg.net?) sharing their interpretation of the Elan that was quite interesting. ...

The Slitheren from the Scarred Lands (White Wolf/Sword & Sorcery) could work too.
At least 6-8 different sub-breeds of rat-men filling different roles in their society, and they're already statte ...

I just noticed that if I do a forum search and get multiple pages of results, I can only view the first page.

Clicking on "Next" or any of the page numbers results in "No topics or posts met your s ...

...cannabalistic halflings from the underdark...

At least they're not cannibalistic halflings from...the bayou. Wink

On the topic of bashing WOTC if it screws up GH, we can go back to t ...

As for me, I solved the problem with this spell:

Conjure Spell Component

There was a Conjure Spell Components spell in the 2e Tome of Magic.

Unfortunately for this discussion, it avoided the ...

4) The party of 1st level characters fights not only Venger in every episode, but their list of opponents includes, a beholder, a 200 foot tall iron golem, Tiamat, Lolth, Warduke, and a host of dozen ...

There are all sorts of hidden lessons in the cartoon, and even the whiny, annoying, self-preserving Cavalier character has his redeeming qualities.

The Cavalier served the specific purpose of being ...

Nerdcav ...
In 3rd Edition and Pathfinder, the PHB lists a "Spell Component Pouch" (2lb, 5gp).

Given that the Healer's Kit specifically says how many times it can be used before it needs to be ...

The town of Restenford (Secret of Bone Hill/Assassin's Knot) is mostly chaotic neutral, but the guidance in the adventures is limited.

"The garrison is provided to maintain some degree of order thr ...

I forget what scale the main geographical area map is in Desert of Desolation, but it may be small enough to drop into just part of the Erypt area.

Approximately 600 miles x 190 miles. The Skys ...

Dragon Annual #4 had the "Campaign Holidays" article, which included a number of Greyhawk holidays.

Ones that aren't in other books:

Frost Days: Fireseek 1-7. Especially holy to priests of Telc ...

According to Erik Mona in [url=http://paizo.com/dungeon/messageboards/generalDiscussion/greyhawkMapScale]this post on the Paizo boards, it's 30 miles per hex, the same as the Darlene map.

There have been different conceptions of how the dirawaen work. Some have speculated that there is a magical effect that actually makes travel much faster on those roads. I just presume that they're l ...

The Great Kingdom has the magical Dirawaen roads, described in Ivid the Undying.

"A notable special case are the magical roads, the dirawaen in Old Oeridian, crafted by combat mages using earth ele ...

Thanks for you research. Was this from a DRAGON also?

It was from Heironeous' statistics in the World of Greyhawk boxed set, and Dragon #67, which I believe was prior to WoG.

How much meersalm does it take to embalm someone anyways?

The article doesn't say. Since the procedure is "a carefully protected secret of the church", I guess the answer is "however much the DM wa ...

I'm not aware of the application procedure being detailed, but in 1e, meersalm provided immunity to weapons under +2 in power, shattering them when they score a hit. +2 weapons only cause 25% damage, ...

As for elephants; who knew that would be an exotic creature for the populace of the flanaess. However let us not make it near mythical as a figurine of wonderous power (elephant) does exist so some kn ...

1e and 2e both list elephant ivory as being worth 4 gp per pound, with a typical tusk being worth 100-600 gp.

I don't recall seeing a value in 3e. I thought it might be in Draconomicon, since it ha ...

I forget the source, but I seem to recall Gygax once intimated that Hieroneous and Hextor were part of Zagyg's plan.

Oerth Journal #12. Thus Spake Gary Gygax: Ye Secrets of Oerth Revealed

Q: In ...

This thread inspired me to go ...{ahem} find... a copy and I'm looking through it now.

The town and moathouse maps look the same.
Reminiscent of the ToEE computer game, a half-dozen of the town lo ...

The region is definitely part of Gran March, though not always clearly. The March also has ownership of the Rushmoors, as it is a region the Keoish dont want. It is kind of like northern Mexico and ...

Bilarro and his eponymous Iron Bands of Bilarro have been in D&D - and causing mayhem in Greyhawk - as long as I can manage to get my sometimes blurry memory to go back.

And there has been at l ...

Oerth Journal #11, "Repair of the Keep on the Borderlands", recommended Hex E5/1, just north of the Tors and west of the Javan River.

"The existing location of the keep is probably inappropriate-- ...

If you're referring to the various posts that include such things as...

4e Greyhawk (coming earliest 2010, latest 2012) will restart the setting in circa 576CY.

There will be no timeline advance ...

Does anyone know if there's a write-up of her stats for 3E / 3.5? I know there is speculation that Iggwilv is Baba Yaga for GH and I have her stats, but this is not what I'm looking for.

I thought ...

And here, by the way, is the best description of how the Power Word spells fit into the D&D magic system.

Did you mean this one?

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0306.html

I've followed the editions of D&D for a long time - and like you feel that some things are just plain wrong and do not fit into Greyhawk (ebberon for one - there are no WARFORGED).

They might w ...

A Wand of Steam & Vapor (Unearthed Arcana) has two functions:
A 10'x30'x50' cone of steam that does decreasing damage for 3 rounds: 6d6, 4d6, 2d6.
A 40'x60'x80' cloud of warm vapor that duplica ...

For Dragon Magazine, there's the DragonDex.
http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/

It's a complete index of every Dragon Magazine article, from Strategic Review #1 to Dragon #359. Every article involvin ...

"Exag: City of Clay", in Dungeon #145.

"Explore the ancient streets of Exag, a secluded city whose secrets and mysteries are among the oldest in history."

Well, the adventure does specify that it requires the Encyclopedia Magica and the Wizard's Spell Compendium. It's not really to their advantage to reprint multiple pages of material from other books. ...

Armitage - I recommend trying other gaming systems where they use a Spell Point system mechanic. The two that come to mind are Rifts (or any Palladium system) and Exalted.

To be honest, I lean mor ...

Do you think that Vancian magic is essential to the "feel" of Greyhawk?

If so, why?
If not, what sort of magic system would you use if you were creating Greyhawk from scratch?

(I suppose the "i ...

And now, Gygax Games has withdrawn all licenses from Troll Lord Games.

[url=http://trolldens.blogspot.com/]Here.

Staffs

Cost PowerEND Skull Staff of Hepmonaland 13 1) Cause Fear: Mind Control 10d6 (Human class of minds), Area Of Effect (5" Radius; +1) (100 Active Point ...

Rods

Cost PowerEND Diplomacy Rod of Furyondy 1 1) Magical Diplomacy: +1 with Conversation, Oratory, and Persuasion (3 Active Points); Independent (-2), OAF (- ...

Swords

Cost PowerEND Equalizer of the Gran March 8 1) Enchanted Blade: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 1/2d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (37 Active Poi ...

The magic items from Greyhawk Adventures, starting with Rings.

Cost PowerEND Admundfort Ring of Leadership 1 1) Flock to Your Banner: x2 Followers (5 Active P ...

[url=http://kotaku.com/5032443/xbox-developer-dead-in-murder+suicide]Here

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The Oerth Journal has contained stats on all manner of things for many years prior to the release of 4e, as have all manner of D&D fan sites. All of these things have supported TSR/WotC products ...

I can't stand the progression 3.5 offers. The XP chart goes up way to quickly for me and the monsters are worth more than they should be.

When they were doing research during the design stages of ...

That Rhenfolk don’t have divine casters is, indeed, a fact. ...The obvious question that follows is: How on Oerth can they survive without it? It is akin to asking how someone can survive in the mode ...

I'm not comfortable with the size of Castle Greyhawk versus one 224 page book
From "First Watch in the penultimate issue of Dragon:
Since detailing the entire dungeon was unrealistic, the authors t ...

It's probably just coincidence, but I always found it interesting that when Rary turned traitor, Mordenkainen condemned his with a speech that was almost a word-for word duplicate of Hanse Davion's co ...

And I just found this on the Kenzer boards, dated December 2006.

Posted by Jolly Blackburn himself:
The truth is we danced hoops around WOTC and made a lot of money off of them.
They thought when ...

A thread I found at Paizo's site.
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizo/websiteFeedback/hackMasterGreyhack

4/11/06
HackMaster: Greyhack
A friend of mine pointed out that the pre-order optio ...

The only thing I don't like about 3E's advancement system is that they set the experience levels so low that it encourages powerleveling. I could see a 2E game being run with 3E advancement rules, but ...

According to the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer, Wee Jas was originally just the goddess of magic and law. The survivors of the Rain of Colorless Fire started praying to her to look after the souls of their ...

I guess this could go here. It's not d20, and it could be adapted to any edition.

http://paizo.com/store/games/roleplayingGames/h/hackMaster/modules/v5748btpy7ckw

It makes me a little nervous.

Rage is not a class ability of barbarians; it is a feat...Thus Tiger and Wolf Nomads develop Mounted Combat and related feats, Rovers of the Barrens the same or Run/Endurance combinations, the Sul ...

Rhenee +1 str, -2 cha

The problem with this is that the Cha penalty was meant to represent the antipathy non-Rhenee feel toward them. I seem to recall that it even mentioned that the penalty wouldn ...

Dragon Annual #4 had an article detailing holidays on Oerth.
According to City of Greyhawk, celebrating Pelor's Day/Giving Day involves giving toys to needy children, but that's Midsummer, Richfest 4 ...