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I've been reading a lot of books on the Middle Ages lately, and your question brought mind some of the points brought up in the books.

When in the Dark/Middle Ages are you focusing on?

After R ...

I like the idea in your poem.

I'd posted a while back on an idea equating a Flan kingdom in the Rakers with a roughly Inca like empire. One idea I was toying with was that the ruler (Inca) was a ...

I always wondered about that. I know zip about licensing and all that. Wouldn't any mod in a game system (MTW 2, Crusader Kings 2, Civ 5, whatever) that was on the web be seen as copyright infringeme ...

Slightly off topic, I always wondered the same thing about the Hobgoblins. They are described as big, strong, stoic, militaristic and organized, with a well developed martial culture. Empires have b ...

I'm more a lurker than much of a poster on here, but I think I have a little bit different take on the pantheons. I've always thought if there were going to be human racial pantheons, there should be ...

Lanthorn, I'm not Gman he just looks like me.

Argon, I'm just a Conan fan, liked the avatar. Happy

Thanks for the ideas, I've got a one or two I'll try and flesh out, and then post on CF.

Long time since I've posted, wanted some input to help me flesh out an idea. From various posts and articles, it s seems there isn't a consistent view on the culture of the Flan. My take on them is t ...

Oddly enough, Perryville is the name of my hometown. I wonder if your DM is from Missouri?

Must the imperial suel constantly be dragged through the depths of depravity no people would function let alone create a relatively stable empire if everyone within it seems to be a power mad lunatic. ...

My one D&D story is Christmas of 1986. I had explicitly told my folks I wanted the DM's Guide. At $30, it was pretty hefty for 1986 money, and it was an hour drive to the nearest store that had i ...

Okay...it was the remote lair of an evil bardic avatar of Tharizdun...bwahaha

Mortellan, you've got me hooked. Spill the beans on Tharizdun the Bard, please! I'd picture him as a Scandinavian Dea ...

I really like seeing the different directions everyone explores, the feedback has been interesting, and has given me some adventure ideas to try to explore. My campaign is pretty low magic, but I've ...

This is for my own curiosity/education. What is the general theme/"atmosphere" of some of the site members' Greyhawk campaigns? I'm wanting to see how other DM's orient their world.

For instance, ...

Wow, I never expected the direction this thread took off to. I guess it hit a nerve. As I've said before, I orignally got interested in these games in high school, then lost interest because of job, ...

I'm really not interested in adding a "drug scene" to my fantasy world,

Mystic-Scholar- I understand, not a subject I particularly want to glamorize either as my players are my teen age sons and my ...

Mortellan-

Guess I had a memory dump, I read that article and totally spaced that it existed!

The idea for this post came from the "Kracky the Hoooded" comment in another thread. How is drug use seen in the Flannaes? Are hallucogenic drugs widely used as part of religious ceremonies? Are "fee ...

I have to admit to being a novice here, although I've been interested in the Greyhawk setting since I was 14 (many moons ago!). I've only played D&D a little bit, though I've had the books and re ...

Fishing = business and business = taxes, and when did a lord ever say "Bah, that village is small. Lets' not collect taxes from them." ;)

Now that you mention it, how many of the governments wher ...

THanks everyone for your ideas. My take is that an "normal" fantasy society would not be some kind of street gang style warfare between different alignment groups. Different people would simply have d ...

Thanks all for the tips! I've got the LGG, and I've been using that as a guide. I'm basing them on Asperdi Isle, and I think one of the mid to high level goals will be having the PC's participate in t ...

Icarus-

This isn't strictly on point for the post, but I think it's a good example of what you're trying to say. You picked the Swedes as an example. Many years ago and in a different life, I had t ...

In everyone's campaign, how do they handle alignment interaction within a single society? In most of the campaign/adventire material I've read, the society seems to have fairly homgenous groups of ali ...

My players are wanting to have a sea going/pirate type campaign, which after a little reserach, I decided to put into the Dominion of the Sea Barons. I've decided to tinker with the society a little b ...

I ran a quick Ratik campaign using the 1st edition rules. I had the North Province Aerdy rulers as the evil antagonists, spurring on Bone March humanoid attacks on the kingdom. IMC, Ratik was somewhat ...

I think I should probably have re-phrased what I was asking here. Do most DM's play the SB as described in the Scarlet Brotherhood accessory? Do they usually weaken it? Strengthen it? Make it enemy n ...

I was just reviewing "The Scarlet Brotherhood" accessory for 2nd edition, in my opinion, they are way too powerful and too organized to be stopped as written. Looking at the looser, vaguely feudal sta ...

I have always been partial to Hextor, I picture him as a Klingon type honorable warrior without all the Heironean goodie two shoes stuff. Not evil for the sake of being bad, or mindlessly vile, but a ...

I read in a Dragon article once that halflings tended to mimic the society of the larger peoples around them, and that there were cases of halfling tribes living in orc territories becoming evil war m ...

Just don't re-enact the shower scene from Americn History X!

Any Orcs/half-orcs /humanoids could form themselves into "ethnic" gangs based upon tribe, along the lines of actual US prisons.

You know, the undead as farm labor seems to be a part of at least Hollywood lore about voodoo, if not part of voodoo myth itself. I saw an old Bella Lugosi movie, "White Zombie", with just that theme. ...

As others have said above, evil is very much a point of view. The Spanish Inquisition always believed they were serving the good of the church and there are countless similar real-world examples from ...

Detailing the ways in which different bloodthirsty cults and evil...ahem, decadent nations get their hooks into people at a young age might add a (rather depressing) element of realism to campaigns. O ...

I like the Death Guard idea, as well as the Paladins of Pholtus. The reason I posted this topic was to try and get how the evil tribes/groups/nations would fit in to the larger picture. I can see indi ...

I've a question for the group, how do each of you handle how evil as represented in your campaigns? Given that D&D grew out of board wargaming, the game seems to represent evil with a fairly cardb ...

Does anyone use the racial/pantheon groupings in their campaign as a basis for conflict? Based on this, Good and Evil deities of the same pantheon would cooperate w/ each other, while opposing deities ...

I like the Scottish Dwarves thing actually. Of course a bunch of Dwarves in kilts "going regimetal" isn't where I was thinking of taking the campaign...

Are there any areas of the Flannaes where I could plausibly fit a Scottish style Highland clan culture? I see just about every other type of culture, but always thought this would be an interesting in ...