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In GH, Ehlonna may be a more important elf deity than the Seldarine in the Ulek lands and some other places. That may skew some elves toward Neutrality in the Ulek lands.
I'm presuming Ehlonna sends ...

One thing to consider is the spirits versus souls split in Deities and Demigods and Manual of the Planes.

Drow are elves, and elves don't have souls. That's why raise dead doesn't work on them. E ...

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Here it is, guys!

-Norker
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We have received enough submissions for two issues.
I'd love to get more art, but that may come later.
We are on track for a late springtime/early summer release.

-Ewan

Yeah, there's that, too.

Nellisir,

FCP isn't the law. It's a corporate policy.

"Fair use" is the relevant legal concept. So long as no one infringes on copyright, lays false claim to ownership of trademarks, etc. a fre ...

FCP is just that, yes.

Good news: We have added an assistant editor and we have an artist and cartographer ready to contribute work.

It’s your work. Send it wherever you like.

I notice you mentioned 'article proposals.' If you mean an email asking if we would be interested in a given article, you do not need to send that. You sh ...

Oerth Journal is great! I really love the work Kristoph and others have done on it and I look forward to the next issue as much as all GH fans do. It will come out when the publisher is ready. Kristop ...

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"Time is, said the martlet."

The Worm Ouroboros

E.R. Eddison
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The True History of the Scarlet Brotherhood and the Tilvanot Lands

In his notes on the Tilvanot lands, Pluffet Smedger reported as rumor stories which later sages took as fact, but the reality ...

I imagine food is more regional than racial.

It's going to be based in good part on what is grown or raised in a given area.

But some dishes will be more popular in certain areas due to the ...

The Three Cantons

Ruler: Their Honors, the Reeves of New Briar, Falsham, and Umberhill
Government: democratic confederation, franchise limited to Hobniz landowners
Capital: each canton governs it ...

Respect.

I didn't know Jason Zavoda well at all, but I could see how much he impacted GH fandom. And I'll remember him whenever I use his index.

Do you have the 1st edition DMG?

It has disease rules. They can easily be imported to 2e. The two editions are quite similiar.

Firesign Theatre did a song called 'Oh Blinding Light', which I'm fairly sure is where Gygax got the idea.

I like Rasgon's version much better for Greyhawk's world, of course.

Neutral alignments= moral ambiguity.

It was always present in the game.

But I think it can easily be taken too far. Good-aligned guys don't have to all be saints, but they ought to generally beh ...

Helping Wee Jas?

How about Scodem, from The Unknown Gods?
He's a LN god of the hunt.
Looks like a short, hump-packed man with a long nose and big ears.

Wise Woman of the Water-Wanderers
Requirements
• female
• Rhennee (human)
• INT, WIS, DEX all 12 or better
• N, NG, NE, LN, CN

weapons:
daggers and blunt weapons
armor: none, no shield

th ...

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 imagine Keoland would be more like subtropical Virginia, not like Florida or South Texas.

Palm trees grow in parts of Cornwall. It's pretty warm.

It has become warmer in our lifetimes, too.

To me, a lot of the Greyhawk nations' implied (or even outright stated, in the case of Saltmarsh being like a medieval English fishing town) "cultural equivalents" imply a significantly cooler culture ...

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 ...

Get rid of universal literacy. Reading & writing should be restricted to Clerics, Wizards, Monks & the more forward-thinking Nobles!

I prefer to run GH with AD&D 2E rules, in which rest ...

1 the F Word

'The Feudal System' didn't really exist, not in the simplified, narrowly defined form you and I were taught in middle school. It's a later construct, a legal theory that became a histo ...

Cool

Of course, wanton slaying of good-aligned beings would still be capital E Evil, regardless of what the Pholtan lawyers think.
(Unless one is actually adopting the idea that the spirit/soul d ...

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 ...

In the Beastlands, sapient animals eat one another according to a natural order of life and death. But these are souls/spirits given form, and all accept it as natural, playing their respective roles ...

So, one of my players is a multi-classed halfling and has inevitably reached the level cap of his priest class. I allow the optional rule of continuing to gain XP but at half the rate.

The player ...

Ah, I see that I was a thread contributor/commenter.

Retread!

Given that the Common Tongue is derived from Oeridian and Baklunish languages, it seems to me that it would most likely have sprung up in a place like Ket, which puts its initial region of use closer ...

The only drawback to creating a Keoland-specific calendar is it's slightly more of a hassle in play to have yet another calendar to convert.

I imagine it would be used mainly at court and in offici ...

Why not add another calendar? Keoland may use regnal years, or date from the establishment of the realm.

The coastal lands of the Sea Princes were noted as hot and dusty in The Gauntlet, IIRC. The module is set inland and up, in Berghof.

Wait, the prevailing winds on Oerth are moving in opposite directions to those of Erath, at similar latitudes? [/b]

It may be that the Germanic titles are Flan in origin, perhaps derived from the peerage of Queen Ehlissa's vanished kingdom.

The BBC did a fine documentary on the Spanish Inquisition. It featured interviews with scholars, historians who have studied the Inquisition. None of this 21st Century TV sensationalism, but a thought ...

Yeah, the leyenda negra lives on.

The real Spanish Inquisition tortured prisoners less frequently than did secular courts in Spain or elsewhere, and it gave the accused something more like our ide ...

Both Spain and the East Roman Empire were frontiers between the rest of Christendom/Europe and Islam.

One can easily take the comparisons too far. No monotheistic religions to map onto RW ones mea ...

I'm not sure that any of the realms of the Flanaess have direct RW analogues, though.

It's a question of perspective.[/i]

I'd say it is most like the East Roman Empire (later called 'Byzantine') in the Medieval Period, if I had to pick something from the real world.

Looks great to me!

I love the 'Vampire-Queen of Keoland.'

If I were doing this, I'd say Iuz had been defeated and banished, and the Scarlet Brotherhood had fragmented into warring sects in the ...

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