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Oerth has two moons but there seems to be no specific reference to human worship related to them. Is there a human-centric god or goddess of the moons Luna and/or Celene? Am I missing the obvious?
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The fellowship is fracturing... Cry

Will this become like the Lord Of The Rings, where the narrative cuts between the different groups of heroes?

Interesting information. I was aware of the details of the sundering, as well as the kings departure. Hadn’t gotten that incorporated into my lore version as yet. Wasn’t sure exactly how to fles ...

My take on the Vale of the Mage relies heavily on its history in the LGG. The valley had some sort of malign presence, the drow believe the valley elves were made slaves to some sort of lie, and the l ...

My two large remaining questions are these:

a) Especially with regard to Greyhawk City watchmen, what do you all think should be minimum amounts for an effective bribe? How little is insulting ...

My two large remaining questions are these:

a) Especially with regard to Greyhawk City watchmen, what do you all think should be minimum amounts for an effective bribe? How little is insulting ...

The guard dog probably won't attract much more attention than it would in real life. Even the wolf likely wouldn't, since the 1983 guide says that free cities often grant entry to humanoids, and they' ...

There's a lot of intrigue surrounding our favorite silver-hearted and self-centered wizard. That knight and his group are still after the party presumably for Aurora's delving too deeply into secrets ...

Here's my obviously very non-canon version of Larrangin. Keep in mind that the version of Bissel he rules over now is the last bit of a nation that was already rotting from the inside long before the ...

Shefak's alive and well, the whole party is together again, the rampaging monsters and robots are permanently sealed, the goodly creatures have been freed, and they're off to the next adventure!

A ...

Another possible "Robin Hood" type campaign might also be in the Vesve if you're striking against Iuz or the Horned Society. This would be an ideal role for a small adventuring band to play, striking ...

Since 1E didn't allow demihumans to swap between classes the way humans could, I would say that the G3 levels are correct. It's more feasible that Eclavdra could have advanced in both her classes simu ...

...Wow.

This became a tragedy really fast, and one that really puts the "grey" in Greyhawk.

The mind flayers might have been doing awful things from their colony (or so I'm assuming, given the ...

All of these would be fine choices. Here are a couple I'd add:

Rel Astra: This is where it all began, the original capital of the Great Kingdom before the Malachite Throne was moved to Rauxes. It' ...

What a creature of habit am I. I tried to make my normal Tuesday post on the 14th and couldn't log on. Over and over I tried - and it wasn't until today that I realized they changed the anti-spambot ...

That ought to show these abominations not to mess with...

...say, does your party actually have a group name?

The Society of Magi is a politically active body of wizards, required to be full-time residents of the Free City and members of the Wizards' Guild in good standing.

It's a political group, not a ...

Yes, the master of the Wizards' Guild has a seat on the Directing Oligarchy. So does the head of the "Society of Magi", whatever that's supposed to be. And while the wizards are more powerful on paper ...

Ah, the whims of the dice...

They can turn the Fellowship of the Ring into the Three Stooges.

Yeah, that's fair enough. And good point about 'ethnically authentic-sounding names." I sometimes forget that it's been more than 1,000 years since the Great Migrations, and that there's been a lo ...

And I think of "Flan" as a catchall category imposed by the invaders of yore to distinguish indigenous inhabitants from Suloise and Oeridian settlers. I don't think all Flannae would necessarily r ...

We can probably discern a lot of the cuisine of different human cultures by examining their real-life counterparts:

-The Flan would make good use of pemmican and bannock as traveling foods, much a ...

Hopes and prayers for Shefak. Cry

And don't feel too bad about tipping your players off on the will o' the wisp. They were probably already on edge given that almost everything on the ship has ...

The worst part is that they're immune to critical hits. Confused

Alright, they killed the intellect devourer!

I love watching how your players and their characters have grown, the interplay between them, and their effectiveness in combat.

I've probably said ...

It is hard to believe that this thread has been buried so deep and for so long in the past threads of the forum. Personally my Rovers are Kozak's not Amerinds but that bit of confusion goes back to th ...

Awesome!

Don't get too comfortable, though-there's more where that came from!

For me, Greyhawk and Dyvers are allies in name only, as they are with the Duchy of Urnst. Both of these states are probably more enemies than allies, given their heated border and trade disputes. Fury ...

I'd choose option #3, but with the caveat that most clerics will prefer to use holy water generated by their own faiths. If possible, if they acquire any holy or unholy water from another faith, they ...

The Barrier Peaks module, and the monsters in it, do have a strange place in Greyhawk history. On the one hand, Gygax seemed to be using the 'alien origin' to explain some of the odder 1e monster ...

I was wondering if, in your Greyhawk, all of the creatures aboard the starship were aliens, or if something like the intellect devourer was native to Oerth. Did the ship crew find the intellect devour ...

-I thought LG turned it into a slow-motion assassination thru' poisoning?

I didn't follow LG, so I wouldn't know. I explained it by having Panshazek the Vile infect Tillit with a demonic parasi ...

What is up with the elves in general?

The LGG's entry on the Valley of the Mage describes how a lot of the valley elves left the Valley and unloaded a collection of scrolls, an oaken chest and som ...

I don't understand your point to this post? There is a the lost city of the suel in the Suss? If the Suel were confined to the Sea of Dust how did they come in conflict with the Baklunish? Would m ...

I never thought the Suel Imperium extended into the Flanaess proper. If it did, then I doubt there would have been as much conflict in the Sheldomar Valley when the Suel refugees fled through the Pass ...

I dislike the whole concept of "future Oerths" in and of themselves, particularly if it implies a canonical fate for many of the peoples and elements of the world. It's one thing for Howard, Moorcock ...

Your players have really come into their own in their tactics and their role-playing. I love their semi-dysfunctional interactions and their still supporting each other in spite of it all, and their a ...

Thanks, everyone!

I'm curious what kind of usual connection a thieves guild representative way out in Diamond Lake would have with the guild. My sense is maybe once a month an operative travels ou ...

I posted a thread about 5 years ago called [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6238&highlight=]Define Your Ideal Greyhawk where people discussed the t ...

I wrote an article about the [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=654]Greyhawk Thieves' Guild for a postfest many moons ago. It's in the form of a legal char ...

The temple of Zilchus in Leukish was razed because the clerics refused to pay Justinian’s exorbitant temple tax.

And that exploded into the Temple Coalition Revolts, where pretty much every faith w ...

As I imagine it, one of the reasons Selczek Gobayuik is so disliked is partly because of his habit of constantly smoking the most obnoxiously bad-smelling pipeweed and Baklunish hashish he can find. T ...

Hello All,

Got into a debate with a fellow DM/player and had to agree to disagree in the end. I won't tell you who had what position, but it came down to this, and I want YOUR collective input to ...

Lyzandred is an ancient Baklunish survivor of Suloise atrocities, and he's made it his unlife's goal to separate dangerous magic from dangerous people.

"If the worst offenders were those who hun ...

What's the answer to puzzle #1? I don't care! Here's why. Much like with the sphinx in WPM, characters can bypass these challenges and just fight the encounter. However unlike WPM, this isn't opti ...

A more formalized ranking system is one of those anomalies from real-life medieval Europe that I can accept in the Flanaess, with titles such as Sergeant, Colonel, Admiral and General. These are even ...

How about a band of spriggans? They're to gnomes what drow and duergar are to elves and dwarves. They can morph between giant and gnome size, so they can do either frontal assaults or stealth attacks, ...

Does anyone know what the symbol on Tenh's heraldry is? I can't find it amongst the glyphs in the Guide to the World of Greyhawk but it looks kind of anthropomorphic to me.

I take it as the Flan wo ...

Although Kord is not my favourite deity I think you underestimate his influence. He's still one of the three most powerful deities in the pantheon and the grandson of the leader of that pantheon. ...

My depiction of Korenth Zan was heavily inspired by Robert Gould's illustrations of Elric, and so the Suel Imperium as I imagine it was heavily inspired by Michael Moorcock's Melnibone, in particular ...

The actual Suel people would have been more influenced by the gods they worshipped. These gods actually exist, have priests, cast miracles, and directly impact the lives, and souls, of the people. ...

My gut feeling has always been that the common folk don't have the time to be as invested in Good vs Evil due to the fact they're busting a gut tilling fields, surviving plagues and generally surv ...

Awesome thread topic, and exactly the kind of thing I love to speculate on.

The first thing that comes to mind for me is that most of the Suel during the Great Migrations were thoroughly vile. The ...

You mentioned in a previous thread that the party is going to shrink in size a bit. How many PCs will be in the party once some of them leave? One of the reasons I love your thread is because I ...

The journey just getting to the Starfall has been just as exciting as actually starting to explore it. Your players are all very, very lucky to have you as their DM.

You mentioned in a previous th ...

In heychadwick's thread on discussing where to set Rime Of The Icemaiden in Greyhawk, it was noted that Blackmoor is almost completely underdeveloped. I really enjoyed Fred Weining's article on Blackm ...

If you're looking for the edge of civilization with a lot of less-than-moral frontiersmen and roughnecks, with a bunch of nearby barbarian types, then why not use some of the northernmost Bandit Kingd ...

Awesome! Thanks so much!

Have Chapters Six through Eight gone through alright?

So who generally plays Umbra? Is she a DMNPC, or do your other players take turns playing her? I notice she hasn't done much in the last couple of sessions.

You make me eager for Tuesday afternoons. I love large parties and your campaign logs are a pleasure to read.

How familiar are your players with Greyhawk canon and the contents of the classic modu ...

I was reading through the 1983 boxed set books the other day, and I noted how many encounter tables listed sylvan elves, and how few listed high elves. High elves only seemed to be common in places li ...

You could also go with 'killing and then eating anyone with a soul is Evil, but doing the same to creatures with spirits isn't (necessarily) so.'

That makes sahuaghin and orcs fine to eat. And elv ...

I'm 38, so I might be a kid by Greyhawk standards. I first started contributing to Canonfire when I was 20, so there's that too.

As to what the attraction of the setting is for me, it may have to ...

I like Vestcoat's, Vlucan's and WingOfCoot's explanations about why the empires didn't grow into the Flanaess proper, and I'd add that the Yatils and Crystalmists provided formidable natural barriers. ...

One of the players in my campaign was a Lizardman Druid. he always chopped lumps off of any kills in order to stock up on provisions, regardless of what/who it was.

His justification was that it wa ...

My thought was that between 591 and 998 CY, the Great War for the fate of the Oerth (and ultimately the multiverse) will be fought, where to win, the forces of Balance (or at least everyone who do ...

It wouldn't necessarily be evil, but I think a lot of humans and demihumans would be disgusted at the idea of eating monsters like lizard men, minotaurs, koalinth and sahuagin, largely because they're ...

The Great Western Gate might be metaphorical, in that Sterich (and arguably Geoff and the Yeomanry) are the gates protecting the Sheldomar lowlands against the giants of the mountains. They were most ...

A ditz, definitely. A harridan? Nah, more like a vixen or minx.

I have some reflections on Alignment in this campaign between posts 108 and 109. Let me say here that for this, my first 5e ga ...

Boy, Willa doesn't like Aurora at all, does she? What's Aurora's alignment, anyway? I've seen you describe her alternately as a harridan, a ditz, etc.

Q1. What is your favorite realm or region in the World of Greyhawk setting?

I've always been particularly fascinated by the Grand Duchy of Geoff, showing how old and new cultures might blend togeth ...

You submitted Chapter One: Seeing the Forest And The Trees *twice*, and also Chapter Four: A Simple Question *once.*

Missing Chapter Two and Chapter Three.

Damn it, that's what I thought. Sorr ...

I have a few more chapters of The Honor Of The Crown ready, but I can't remember which ones I've submitted to Canonfire beyond the first one. Can somebody confirm them for me?

In writing Keoland, I've had a strange combination of royalist France and Imperial Russia, along with modern America, of all places. Strange combination, I know, but hear me out.

The imperial Fren ...

I've read through this whole thread, and I just wanted to say bravo. You make the setting come alive with all the little details, and I love how you're willing to go your own way when it benefits your ...

Aside from the obvious suggestion of Vecna, the destruction of House Malhel could be equally disturbing. Depending on how old the elf storyteller is, she might actually have lived through those events ...

Thanks for linking to this CruelSummerLord!

I enjoyed reading your articulation of the Brotherhood's steps.

Regarding the Fodder step, since it sounds like you've retained Sargent's depiction of ...

Hopefully folks won't mind me resuscitating so many old threads, but as I read old discussions, I sometimes feel moved to respond and hope that others who expressed past interest might update the comm ...

Most of what is posted below is from my own version of things, so take it with as many shakers of salt as you want.

The LGG noted that the Hold of the Sea Princes had the single best fleet in the ...

I read through this relatively recently. If it is not the first published murder mystery for RPGs, it is certainly one of the first.

I have to ask, for anyone who has either run it or played in it ...

I very much like the idea of cultures being as unique as they can be. There will always be comparisons to real world things, as that is that is the point of reference we have; the baseline that we ...

People of the Plentiful hunting grounds was most likely added by the person fleshing out Gygax's notes. Very telling is the original 'Ataman'.

My main objection is that Amerind culture makes no ...

Okay, time for a question that's been nagging at me for a long time but that I only remembered to ask now. Anyone who worked on the LG Naerie campaign would be especially welcome.

In reading the r ...

Another thing I just realized, and I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned, yet.
There's a user who used to be pretty popular on the boards here, Chibirias mka Maria DelTorre, was a huge advocate of th ...

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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What if we just declare electrum to be a base element along with all the other metals D&D uses for coinage? All of the other coin metals have their own entries on the real periodic table, so why s ...

Certainly nothing wrong with Native American Flan for your own campaign, but care to dispute the points I made about Flan being a conglomeration of European peoples such as Balts, Helvitii, celts, g ...

I agree with SirXaris that knights are separate from cavaliers. Wizards, rogues and clerics could all fill various roles in the Knights of the Watch or the Knights of Luna, and they would still be ful ...

Can you post or page reference the Amerind illustration?

I was recently reading a Gygax quote about the published setting where he talks about using it instead of his home campaign version. The ' ...

The Flan=Amerind seems to come down to the Rovers entry. Who-ever wrote the blurb for them was thinking Amerind but Gygax's notes were describing them as Cossacks.

Some Post-Gygax material o ...

Gygax's home campaign was based on the north american map. The published Greyhawk setting is not. Also you are confusing physical appearance with culture. The areas depicted as having unadulterated ...

The Flan=Amerind seems to come down to the Rovers entry. Who-ever wrote the blurb for them was thinking Amerind but Gygax's notes were describing them as Cossacks. Their chief is an Ataman which i ...

This kind of topic has always been of great interest to me and I can see value to both CSL and rasgon's approaches. For me the key is to foster consistency in my gaming world to help create a strong s ...

The Bone March-Ratik alliance is not exactly secure. Gary Holian told me about the Key of Spinecastle, which inspired me to have Count Dunstan as the provisional Marquis. He needs the Key for the ...

I also love the mix of political intrigue and humanoid combat/dungeon crawls that exists in the Bone March, Ratik and North Province area. My own take on the Greyhawk Wars involves Bone March being ef ...

This thread made me want to ask-what's Blackmoor's general society and culture like? Most of the canon sources don't really describe what everyday life is for Blackmoorians or what their character is ...

Okay, three more elven questions:

1) Is CruelSummerLord's article from the postfest the only speculation/follow-up/source for what's going on in the Spindrift Isles? It's the only thing I've ever s ...

I've been thinking a lot about elves lately, so I hope it won't be interpreted as threadjacking if I post a few of my own questions:

• For those playing editions after 1e, did you retain the elven ...

There are two trends I hate in fantasy gaming and fiction. The first is making the elves a "perfect" race that are somehow more enlightened, more moral, more skilled, and overall better than humans in ...