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I am glad to see that my thread I started all those years ago is still running strong ...

It is good to be back!

After much debate and consideration, it's time for me to head home, back to campaigns of yesteryear ...

Enter a World of Wonder & Intrigue, a world where bandit kingdoms raid from their remote ...

Sounds like a splendid idea ....

I am on the fence! I want to like it ....

I don't like this whole short, long rest concept makes the game feel to much like you playing a video game.

Advantage/Disadvantage another rules that i ...

Funny DMPrata ..... hahaha

What a terrible name for a dwarf

The sun has set over the dark continent and once again the Dark Herald has taken the reigns of his trusted steed Nightbane .... fear the dark for the Herald has taken the night ..... er wrong forum :P ...

I have always used the human form HP total as this role would be the one that improves as the character/npc gains levels. Otherwise it would be pointless to shift into were form.

What rules do you ...

Greetings from the shores of Hepmonaland Smile

What a crazy year this has been!

One always thinks that you can plan ahead for the unexpected, this year has proven to be one of those years tha ...

... as usual I am lost for words.

Keep up the hardwork on the comic, it has definetly become one of my weekly highlights (or how often you have been producing them).

I salute you.

I have a couple, would have to check if they are 3.x or PF, if you interested.

I support what Argon says.

Was I dissapointed that Greyhawk wasn't selected for 5e? Sure
Was I upset that the Realms got another chance to shine with 5e? Sure

Maybe this time round they will l ...

I have a copy of Castle Amber for Pathfinder Shocked

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/47132478/amber.jpg

Paizo did a conversion of Isles of Dread called Savage Tide, again 3.x easily converted to Path ...

I would really like to get the PF Greyhawk God Domains project off the ground. Anyone willing to get this off the ground?

You need to think about your first meeting with him .... Did your spider sensors tingle? Did you drive away looking in your mirror to see if he was watching you drive away? Did he say anything that ra ...

Mort you carry on amazing me with your talent. Great work, your in a class of your own. Looking foward to seeing more.

Cheers

I am currently running ToEE using the Pathfinder rule system. You can go check out my blog. http://greyhawkadventures576cy.blogspot.com/

Welcome Nerdcav!

Great to have you here. Just like you, many of us were in similar positions over the years, but we all always headed back to good old faithful.

What are you planning to run as y ...

I think a backup site of the material here on Canonfire as well as the wiki should be considered.

I for one would hate to see anything lost. I too have the know how to assist with this and get back ...

Ragr

I would recommend Keep on the Borderlands this http://paizo.com/products/btpy8rna?Shadowed-Keep-on-the-Borderlands written by Creighton of Raging Swan Press.

It is low level and it has a gr ...

What I mean was that if a fighter with a STR 18, a sword +1 rolls a 19 and is using a long sword he would then roll 1d8 x the result by 2 and then add bonuses. i.e. 6x2 =12 +4 +1 = 17HP of damage.

...

I dont make use of the "confirm roll rule," I really dont think it is needed.

In my campaign if a CRIT is scored the player then gets to roll his damage and multiple the result by the weapons CRIT ...

Don’t get me wrong I think that having the META REGION AREA is needed, as whole I think that the information stored on CANONFIRE needs to be more structured.

BUT I do think that a FORUM structure i ...

I feel like I am wasting my time posting my links or articles in the campaign journal section. I actuall have STOPPED posting in that section.

This whole META REGION forum section is making it that ...

Favourite: Temple of Elemental EVil, Scourge of the Slave lords & Queen of the Spiders.

Least: Gargoyle and Child's Play

Verbobonc is known to have major temples to Cuthbert, Pelor and Heironeous, and a thriving following of Kord. The city of Verbobonc - Canon Ramses of the Church of Pelor

or

TWILIGHT FALLS
Twili ...

I am in agreement with Allan and Tony, the forums below LG need to move up. Can the LG forums not be coslidated under LIVING GREYHAWK and then have sub-forums under the parent directory.

I was able ...

LEGACY the Path of Heroes - Session 001

Tomorrow brings the start to my LEGACY the Path of Heroes Campaign, set in the World of Greyhawk. Below you will find the introduction that I sent out to my ...

Who better to start off the Herald's interview than with the lady of the Flanaess, the grand cartographer of that is Greyhawk, the lovely lady Anna.

This is the first in a series of interviews that ...

I disagree with the statement about the 1e Hard Cover Books I still refer to them today, as do I refer to my orginal D&D box sets.

01 Basic Rule Set
02 Expert Rule Set
03 Companion Rule Set
...

I think the best approach would be to have 3 versions of 5e

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Basic Edition

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Advanced Edition

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: Tactical Edition

Best way ...

The thing that strikes me is the shorter and shorter product life of the recent editions.

1E: 1977-1988
2E: 1989-2000
3E: 2001-2007
4E: 2008-2013?

Cash has been the motivator for everything p ...

The reason such a column worked for Dragon/Dungeon is precisely because they were monthly periodicals. OJ/CC is a "whenever it gets done" periodical, so the letters from the readers column format fits ...

I have looked and spent a lot of money on my hobby since I first started playing. I spent more money on older editions and less so on new ones, exception being Pathfinder were I have invested into all ...

As I said before we have more than enough material to put out a good couple of magazines before we ahve to worry about new content and putting hawkers under pressure for new content.

I think for no ...

It sounds interesting, but I am having trouble understanding what you have in mind, DarkHerald.

Do you intend for this to be a simultaneous event for different groups all across the world to play a ...

From my blog, http://greyhawkadventures576cy.blogspot.com/2012/01/greyhawk-40-this-year.html

After doing some digging around the internet a couple of weeks back, I discovered that Gary Gygax in fac ...

http://greyhawkadventures576cy.blogspot.com/2012/01/character-folio-part-1.html

At the start of my campaign I always provide my players with a custom made character folio ...

Now that you mention it, so will I.

Good old faithful '72!

So I was thinking of either running a Greyhawk Game on Game Master's Day, 4 March or Gary's Birthday 27 July.

Thoughts?

http://dl ...

"Murlynd: Gary Gygax's friend Don Kaye created Murlynd for the second-ever session of Gygax's Greyhawk campaign in 1972. "

So there you have it confirmed Greyhawk turns 40 next year!

I certainly will be releasing my notes and extras online as the players complete each section or at least when it doesnt impact on the players knowledge of what is to come

To those of you that haven't seen my post in the campaign journal section, I have started a blog for my upcoming campaign starting mid-January.

The blog will cover my campaign notes, a journal of ...

To all my fellow friends and Canonfire Members, may your festive season be filled with joy and happiness. Safe journey to all those traveling and a prosperous New Year to all.

May your dice rolls b ...

The more projects that overlap the better chances that we have continuity through out. So sure please do Crag.

Thanks for that SirXaris.

I wasnt planning on using the original map any further than I have already done.

I will be working off the original Darlene maps for , mountains, rivers, lakes etc.

...

I have been browsing the net trying to find a good map of Oerth but haven't had much luck!

I found this one by Dante Kerensky which gave me something to work from. Credit to Dante for the orginal d ...

Thanks very much most helpful BlueWitch

Jut to put it out there, if sticking to a timeline is overly constraining to your campaign, not sticking to what is essentially the timeline in somebody else's campaign(i.e. TSR's/WotC's) is a better ...

Thanks Grendel!

I found your posts on your site at 3am this morning :)

Was most helpful

SPOILER ALERTS, people! SPOILER ALERTS! Idea

I edited those in for you folks. Many are familiar with Greyhawk material, but not all. And, you never know when players may be lurking wher ...

Thanks for all the comments.

I have worked out the start dates for T1-4 and A1-4. Now I need workout how long A1-4 lasts and when the start of GDQ1-7 is.

In the beginning of GDQ1-7 it states tha ...

Yes I saw that much in the different adventures ...

What is considered Canon WRT Thrommel??

***SPOILER ALERT!!!***

Copy-n-paste the text below and enlarge it to see the spoiler.

Is he a vampire? Does he get rescued?

Then there is the ques ...

Scourge of the Slavelords.
First, it is assumed that this adventure begins shortly after the player characters have finished with The Temple of Elemental Evil.

I just checked A1-4 and in the text ...

Does anyone remember how much time passes in the ToEE adventure? I would like to compare notes on this, again if too much time passes it could then end up being a mad rush into Greyhawk Wars.

T1-4 ...

Thanks for the input guys.

I want to try and start the adventure as close to the beginning of 579CY as I will be doing my version of the Wars and I need time for the other adventures to fit in.

...

I have been scanning through ToEE and I dont know if I have missed it, but I am trying to figure out what time of the year in 579CY the adventure starts?

I was thinking of kicking of during the las ...

I read an article about imbuing weapons with temporary magic and now for the life of me I can not remeber where I read it.

The article covered the costs, spells and components needed to imbue the w ...

Acrobat only saves things before 3am in the morning ..... Shocked

@Cebrion:

The file was created using Adobe Acrobat (or similar). It would have been in this process that the different forms would have been created to make them fillable. This has nothing to do wi ...

Yup great work indeed.

I have also been working on a day to day calendar that includes weather, sunrise, sunset etc.

Should be finished soon if anyone is interested.

The ritual of removing the tongue and placing brass coins on the victims eyes
in my campaigns binds the corpse with a hex in the afterlife so that they can not speak or see.

Wealth of information been flung around in this thread ....

But hell you guys are making my head hurt Razz

That's a bit fishy ....

In my campaign if the persons/creatures tongue has been removed then the speak with dead spell then becomes useless.

I don't know how to respond to your post SIRXARIS ...

Racism .... was the last thing on my mind when I was writing that post.

I dont want to get into a whole debate about this matter, there is e ...

Reference:
Player's Guide to Greyhawk
Chapter Roleplaying in the Flanaess, Page - 42
Heading - Optional Racial Ability Adjustments

Baklunish +1 WIS, -1 CHA*
Flannae +1 CON, -1 INT
Oeridian + ...

I never liked the level limits on demi-humans to be honest, although they made sense in the bigger picture.

All races progress to 20th level there after they loose the wanderlust and settle down. S ...

@SirXaris

I am glad you found a solution that works for you. The downside of that solution is that the game then starts to feel like an RPG on the PC.

I hear you WRT having issues of introducing ...

In my up coming campaign I have made a lot of changes that makes Greyhawk grittier.

Raise Dead, Ressurection are only possible with the aid of a priest of death. A deal is made, but these deals are ...

Sorry I missed you last night .... Sad

I have never had any issues with alcohol at our gaming table. Most of us have a couple of beers during a session or a bottle of red wine gets opened.

Most of us smoke, but not around the table. We ...

Indeed, nicely done!

Is Geocities down?

Allan every link you provided said ... not found. I hope this is just a problem from my side.

Indeed!

Touching story Theocrat, one that we al have shared. I wish you all the best going forward

Yours Graciously,

The Dark Herald

Well met.

Need help with anythig, ask away!

I have a VERY extensive collection of material both in hardcopy and pdf.

I have been collecting since the ealry 80's, it hasn't alwasy been easy obtaining everything I wanted. I do however make a p ...

Thanks for all the hard work so far ...

Not sure where to post this ...

I have two groups that I will be DMing for and at first I was going to keep the two groups completely separate. Late last night it occured to me what if I ran the sa ...

My wife just finished reading Game of Thrones and funnily we were discussing the topic of age.

In the book girls were considered to be woman as soon as they could bare children and boys were consid ...

The covers are mockups that I made up in Photoshop. The are to replace the covers of Temple of Elemental Evil, Scourge of the Slave Lords and Queen of the Spiders. The other 3 are modules are of my ow ...

The Player's Guide contains information intended for players, rather than dungeon masters.The book emphasizes character development over comprehensive coverage. The book gives a basic overview of the ...

Great article Happy

I am sure to use each in my upcoming campaign. The Rhennee Darkhagards is just what I have been looking for to enhance a plot that I was busy with.

I too await eagerly part ...

All Greyhawk expressions from greetings to religious sayings are welcome.

I thought it would be nice to have a document with all the accumulated sayings together for easy reference, as it really a ...

Another group of sayings, care of the Temple of St. Cuthbert in Hommlet(from T1 The Village of Hommlet/T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil ):

Funny you should mention ToEE. I am busy with a rewrite o ...

Greetings,

I was referencing some of my Greyhawk books for my updated campaign guide that I writing and have seen a couple of references to "Greyhawk Expressions."

This is where I thought it ma ...

I was wondering if anyone converted Comeliness from AD&D Unearthed Arcana to Pathfinder or D&D 3.5?

How many groups are still using Comeliness in there games today? Be it the original rule ...

The campaign from 2010 came to an end due to some players changes.

LEGACY: The Path to Adventure is a 6 part adventure taking players from level 0 - 20 over a 3 year period.
http://projectgroup.ne ...

1) What human subrace(s) best describe you and why?

Suel, because I am tall (6'2") and heavy set. :P

2) What demi-human race best describes you and why?

Mountain Dwarf, because I can be j ...

LG Zeif Mods:

596 - Intro mods
ZEFi6-01 - Mouqollad al-Zeif
ZEFi6-02 - Do Dragons Cry
ZEFi6-03 - The Sultan's Birthday
ZEFi6-04 - Sailing the Tuflik River
ZEFi6-05 - The 'Wurst' Festival Ever ...

I have a 198 files, in my Living Greyhawk Geoff folder. Zipped file comes in at just under a 100mb.

Let me know ...

@Dark Herald - I am using the servants quarters. I am having a tryst with the maid and did not feel like making the long ascent back to the manse proper.

Sounds similar to my villa in France. It i ...

Your words were pretty crammed together and from my vantage (ten feet away on my couch reading from my 47" LED television/computer monitor) I misread it.

that is so last year we dont buy in anythin ...

I copied the list into an excel sheet, I haven't removed all the spaces, the total comes to 2121 entries, if you remove the spaces I would say it looks to be just over 2100 possible scenarios.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/296532-greyhawk-collectors-guide.html
I am not sure if I have all of the Mod, but I do know my folder for LG documents is over 5GB in size. I must ...

Does anyone actually have a proper Mod count or a master list to compare against?

Awesome timing. The seabased campaign I started a couple weeks ago uses Comeliness in 3.5
Overall it's just for fun, but the guidelines in the Greyhawk Glossography can give you an idea how to rolepl ...

It was suggested that could fir any campaign world. In the article it gives you the options of Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms.

It was not done specifically for Greyhawk.

My own plans are much bigger . . . It will start in 598CY and will constitute a major change in western Oerth, but leaving eastern Oerth much as it is currently. A few minor changes in power and polit ...

Hmm, that part I "saw." Smile

I mean, do you wish to write modules specific to that "time" frame, or do you wish to do completely new write-ups for the nations, with some change-ups, as has bee ...

Still, I'd like to hear "where" you are suggesting we "start," Dark Herald? Confused

With a Date?

What would be the start date of the new era Greyhawk?

Do we pick up where LG left off at 610CY ...