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Just for sake of anyone who might've not heard:
The free PDF of Oerth Journal #34 has been released, and Patrons of GreyhawkOnline get a free print edition of OJ34.

The Winter edition of the OJ ...

... Pixabay, Pexels, and Unsplash all have many photos which are licensed for public use ... Actually, I do use some of those. There's some good art there, if one looks around.

I'm an artist, and ...

Are images that appear in official WotC products fair game under the fan use of WotC IP rules?
They are, in fact!
That's actually why I included the "policies that allow its use" bit! Wink

As ...

The Gygax era promised not to offer details on the big picture of the campaign ...
Exactly where and when was this promise made, and by whom?

Because I remember Gygax making specific statement ab ...

The names of the movers and shakers (along with their families) changes radically from 576 to 591. I was hoping for some continuity ... Hey there, Skech!
If you're interested, there's a couple of ...

I have submitted an article to the OJ. I don't know if it will be selected or if it will make it past the editing phase. Regardless of if it is selected and passes or not, I was wondering how graphics ...

One of the things I found long after this thread was current was that there's an indication of when the Dragon Annual #1 map is actually set. ... there's not any other maps that label the Baklunish an ...

Well, here it is, years and years later, and I'm still on this topic.
It's still a favorite of mine, and still interesting to me, after all these years.
…
Oh, trust me. I know exactly what it is ...

Yeah, I think the decision to make Greyspace a geocentric system created more problems than the novelty of it was worth. It really complicates how the moon phases play out, for one.
Out of curiosity, ...

I think I see where you're absolutely right, Rasgon.
Somehow, in my brain, I think it's the distinction of saying "month" is connotating a number of days on the calendar, not a cycle depending on wh ...

The only thing I can't find is the writeup on Ford Keep, which is in the reference list of his write up on the GH Wiki; I guess it got taken down.
The Ford Keep article is still online: http://www.wi ...

Another great Journal, thanks to all involved!
Good work to all the authors involved. Especially those who are new to Oerth Journal. Very proud of everyone for coming together.
It's fantastic that t ...

The lunar calendar is different, since Luna doesn't skip the festival weeks. There are 13 lunar months in a year (364/28=13), so it would be more of a Baker's Dozenmonth. Hmm. Fair enough.
But, that ...

Glad that y'all are enjoying it, and that it's getting plenty of downloads!
Be sure to pass the word on all your social media and such - especially in private groups - otherwise they may not hear!

Ragson is great about pointing you to the right books to find what you're looking for.
Seldom have more true words been spoken.
Rasgon is inexorably one of the greatest assets to our gaming communi ...

Icarus, please stop trolling my posts. I dont know what your problem is but you are not helpful.
I've never once trolled a post of yours.
I've never even responded to a post of yours. That's ver ...

Even Deshute's Ford is in the wrong location of the Greyhawk Maps made by Anna.
There's no such thing.
You REALLY need to stop saying in places that there's a "wrong" and a "right" way for Greyhaw ...

And that's okay.
I prefer the smaller scale, where my character doesn't have to have an earth shattering effect on the world to have accomplished important feats in his own life or area.Not to just s ...

Gygax also gave the Greyhawk campaign to any DM who wanted to make it their own. Later IP owners may want to rescind that but the genie is out of the bottle making the concept of Greyhawk "canon' absu ...

… Discounting the Scarlet Brotherhood, the Greyhawk analogue to the Zhentarim would roughly equivocate to the Greyhawk Thieves' Guild + Greyhawk Assassins' Guild + Greyhawk Merchants' Guild + Horned S ...

The question we should ask isn't why Iuz would trade and exchange ambassadors to other realms, it's why he wouldn't.
I couldn't agree more.
That's absolutely spot-on.
I thought it interesting, ...

One thing I'd like to ask is whether Oerth Journal articles have to be 'canon-compatible'.

The reason I've never submitted anything to the OJ is because I always thought material had to be compati ...

I've just finished browsing through this latest issue. Congratulations and well done. I love that it is coming out quarterly now.Thank you so much! We're really glad to hear that it's well-received!! ...

You know, I'm glad the Rant of a Malcontent is well-received.
A lot of folks got a little bent when Ghosts of Saltmarsh came out because of the agent of Iuz in the small, out-of-the-way town of Saltm ...

I really love the "Rant of the Malcontent."
I'm really glad that you liked this one, Mindseye!!
The fella who wrote it, Nathan Doyle of Attention Deficit &Dragons, was really eager to write fo ...

Hey there, everyone! A little press release, here.
The much-anticipated OERTH JOURNAL #31 was just released yesterday as a New Year's Eve kind-of special!

It's a little bit of a benchmark for t ...

This was actually meant to refer to Lankhmar, as Leiber wrote it, where there was a very big difference between the gods in Lankhmar, (basically a series of Cultists who begged for worshipers) and the ...

So there would be a difference between the Gods inGreyhawk versus the Gods of Greyhawk?
As far as conjunctive phrases, no, there's no difference between the two grammatically.
Unless one wants to d ...

Both sources cement the statement that Iuz has been around far longer than one and a half century. …
I'm gonna have to agree with Rasgon here.
There's nothing really specific in early canon that c ...

Remember, these are replacements, as you pointed out in your post. Rather than equivalents.
They don't necessarily share the same goals or motives as their counterparts in the Forgotten Realms.
It ...

… lots and lots and lots of incredibly cool references … I think that may be the most well-cited and completely referenced collection of Tasha/Iggwilv references I've ever seen written.

This has always confused me. As you said, Gygax often referred to Iuz as "the Old", which implies he's been around a long time. … You know … that's interesting.
I always just assumed it was because ...

I can't believe I missed this conversation!! How on Oerth did that happen?!

There's an extremely pretty fan-created map of Greyspace in For sake of reference …
The artist, Argentmantle, actually ...

King of the Dead is lich-y, Ravenloft-y, and half Greyhawk!Yes, but to prevent misunderstandings, it's about Azalin, not Vecna.
No kidding?! I didn't know there was an Azalin novel!!!

Oh, holy c ...

... I'm hoping to revisit my City of Greyhawk map, create a higher resolution version for the website and add a bunch of locations that are currently missing from the current version of the page. Loca ...

… a whole bunch of seriously cool stuff. … You know what this forums needs?
A "like" button.
Or, a heart, a +1, a thumbs-up, an up arrow, or something
Idea

:sh ...

...A worshipper of Huehueteotl … ...actually, the NPC's name was Huehueteotl.
The NPC's name was Huhueteotl. Very close to the name of the Olman deity. But, missing one vowel.

Also, just to add to the list:

H'Carth Mad Beholder of Greyhawk.

● Grubb, Jeff. Legends and More, Legend of the Spelljammer. TSR 1991. p7
● -----. Ships and Captains, ibid. p8 ...

There are (sigh) invisible beholders protecting the library of the Guild of Wizardry in Greyhawk city.

--Erik
Yes … Yes, there are invisible beholders in the GoW! LOL
I mean, I guess they're th ...

3 weeks...and a year. Been there, done that myself. ...:shades:Whoops! ha haha!
Well, maybe someone'll use it! Thanks, Ceb!

FYI … just to help folks …
Last night, GreyhawkOnline made an announcement, in conjunction with Canonfire!
PSmedger decided that he'd like to partner with GreyhawkOnline in working on the wiki. I ...

My question is this- ...
However, how have you handled races?
Do you allow the subraces? High elves, valley elves, wild elves, tallfellow halflings, etc? If so, how do you handle the mechanics?
...

Robin Bailey's NightWatch novel is set in the mid-600s IIRC. Might offer some further ideas.
Allan.
I totally didn't know this!
My opinion of that book just skyrocketed through the roof!

Gr ...

Off the top of my head:
Noble houses … The Great Kingdom of Aerdy ….

I swear, this forum needs a "+1" or "Like" button.

A Guide to the World of Greyhawk (1983), page 67.
Thanks, Rasgon! …
As an aside … totally random side-note: man, I love Darlene's calligraphy.

Erythnul's blood creates ogres, among other monsters.
True enough! Perhaps there was an early battle that "seeded" Oerth?
Well that is an interesting tidbit!
Where's that come from?! I'd love t ...

I've come across it several times when trying to go through old thread; specifically in long threads.

When the numbered "more pages" links don't connect to the correct places.

A somewhat serendipitous, remarkable find, while researching the University of Magical Arts for an new page on the GH Wiki.

Turns out, Kieran Jalucian (headmaster of the University) had a spellboo ...

...I guess no one else remembered it. :lol:Yeah … nope. LOL. I searched pretty hard, trying to figure it out, too. I just couldn't find enough clues. :P
One place for the exiles to come from ...

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 ...

Anybody here use the Amedio much?
Care to share your own ideas for developing the region or your opinions regarding the published TSR/WotC/Paizo material?

#2 beastmen replace dakon
Both species a ...

There are a few adventures from Dungeon Magazine that are intended to be placed in a jungle, though I cannot remember their names off hand...

Dungeon Magazine #10, and maybe 15 and 22:

I'm sure ...

Dragon #263 mentions "black Labradors" in temples of Delleb; Delleb's companion is a "black labrador retriever" named Shadow. One of
I think I'd go with option #1.
That's the most likely … they j ...

Weisshunds at the Temple of St. Cuthbert in Greyhawk.

The Adventure Begins, p. 89.
Dangit!! You beat me to it, James! LOL! I was gonna mention this one! As I continued to read, I thought, "OO ...

In Oerth Journal #22, Andy Miller simply used the "Nomads" names for months (A Guide to the World of Greyhawk, page 5) as Oerth's zodiac, which makes a lot of sense.
As sort of an aside, Andy Miller ...

… Central American Mythos for the Olman? ….Absolutely.
It's officially published that the Olman deities aren't originally from Oerth, so, being that it's an Alternate Earth, I would presume the same ...

The Alliance of Defiance took down the ToEE according to TSR's collector cards.Ooh!! Good one!
I adore those cards, and the Alliance of Defiance specifically.
So much so, in fact, I'm writing an ...

I searched for "port city north-western France" and found a page with ports in France. Brest, France seems like a good way to place Aurora, Syzygie.Well, I personally don't think I will go so far as ...

While I've heard of The Black Moon Chronicles and it's placement on Oerth, admittedly all I know about Western Oerik is the "Sundered Empire" lore from the 3e-era of Chainmail…Well, there's nothing wr ...

Well, here it is, years and years later, and I'm still on this topic.
It's still a favorite of mine, and still interesting to me, after all these years.
…
But, more interesting, is that I've sinc ...

Well, welcome Snafu!!
I don't think I'd ever expected myself to be welcoming a "SNAFU". LOL
There's a lot of us around here who have a similar story to yours.
Played in the early days, and later ...

...I read that for boxed sets they turn everything into a single book, including player handouts, illustrations, etc.That's correct. I have a couple of PoD books.
Essentially, they've just format ...

Well, I don't know that there's anything either for, or against, this idea … But …
Not all rivers are at the same level all day long.

There's a possibility that it could be a "all over northern ...

Just for the sake of saying:
Lamashtu, this is an incredibly useful resource.
I've just recently used it in research for a "constellations" article for OJ30, coming out this month.
Andy Miller i ...

https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/arch/dndlg
Laughing

Are you kidding me Rasgon?!?! Laughing

Ninja'd while I was typing the reply!!
You always seem to be Johnny-on-the-spot!!
I literally thoug ...

I had downloaded a bunch of the old Living Greyhawk articles from the WoTC site but due to my ex deciding to clean up my computer just about everything gaming wise on my computer has been lost.
Man, ...

Thanks for making the video available on youtube and thats for the slide deck. Great stuff!Just for sake of thoroughness … got a response from Allan "grodog" Grohe about his slides for the Celebrating ...

... we had a TPK in Chapter II on the encounter against Theldrick and his minios. But we all decided to move on and my players rolled up new characters.You know, that seems to happen a lot … I've had ...

Greetings to all!
… {/quote]Hi there, and welcome! Glad to have you around and posting on the boards!

My nickname is (easily recognizable) based on my real name, for that little extra kick mixed ...

While watching the video on Luke Gygax's youtube … Wow!! People are already watching it?!?! It just went up!!
That's awesome!

Allen mentioned that the slides would be available on Canonfire? … ...

I did a search for "Greyhawk" and only got 1e and 2e products.That's kind of the point of Print-on-Demand … but, there's also the occassional 3e or 4e product in there, too. The whole push from WotC ...

Welcome, Hyrknian!
Glad to see you getting into the resources suggested on Reddit!
There's certainly a lot for you to find, and a lot of fun things to learn about! The setting is rich with histor ...

What I don't get is how Skepticism, which is presumably similar to real-world atheism, can really be justified in a D&D world like Greyhawk.(Bolding mine, for point of clarity)
A very minor point ...

Check out This is the same recommendation I was going to make.
I have used it as a resource, not only for my collection of Greyhawk trading Cards, but, also for the [url=https://greyhawkonline.com/ ...

Also, for those interested …
When the announcement was made by Anna … on the Lord Gosumba Twtich.tv channel, Gabbin' at Lord Peak's Haven, there's a video clip posted on Greyhawk Online that also in ...

… Additional factions are present in the material, those mostly being the usual suspects wanting influence in the Azure Sea. One faction seems a bit out of place geographically, and operates openly - ...

Thanks Jason, I now have 2 For Hextor...

"In blackest day, in brightest night,
Beware your fears made into light.
Let those who try to stop what's right
Burn like his power, Hextor's might!" ...

I'm assuming I'm here because of grodog. :)
Nice to meet you and wonderful to recognize some names!
Glad to have you around, Ron!
Nice to see you here!

Speaking of avatars, I need to get around ...

What is the URL?
Heychadwick, Lamashtu included it, above, at the end of his post.
http://wait-wtf.com:3001

Lamashtu, it's an incredible resource.
Very useable. Beneficial to just about an ...

Darn it … I wish I'd seen this a little sooner.
I have Black and White, but you're right … In other ones, there's a whole lot more references to places and people.

Black & White: I would ha ...

Here's two more, which are both from the seminar we did called "Celebrating Greyhawk: A Fandom Rennaisance" at killer!! Written by Carlos Lising, the catacomb tomb she's in was compromised and flooded ...

Here's another one …
This was for a private commission I got, randomly, from the 'net.
A fella had been Googling for images of a hippogriff and found mine (that's posted further upthread), and real ...

Can it really have been so long, AGAIN?!?!?!

So, here it is, a couple of years later, and things have changed *so* much!
I'm the owner/admin of AGAIN. Damnable hosting services!
So, I went all ...

A new, updated url for the article by Roger Moore:
https://greyhawkonline.com/docs/WOGgates.pdf

Would it not be nice if we could start 2019 (or at least during 2019) have a new Oerth Journal?

I wish I'd seen this sooner!!
I had no idea, 'til I just randomly started perusing the forums, and ...

And interesting and informative thread!
Wow, thanks for that!!

Also … Tarrelton …
In your second paragraph, where you say "sun" you mean "moon" right?Curses! You are correct, I meant sun.Did y ...

Well, I'm not sure if Grodog got to cleaning it up, or if I happen to have clicked something previously to allow my browser to go past the "unsecure" notification.

Hopefully it's the previous, bec ...

So, one of the things I often wonder about - is how the world would change with the passing of time.

And though a lot of people would say that there should be some big conflict where the Scarlet ...

You know, it's **SO** interesting to me that this is a popular topic, lately ... I've seen variations on this in at least three different places this month.
And wondrously, Grimklok's map always se ...

Yeah ... these images need to be fixed, the links are **SO** broken, since photobucket changed it's fileshariing permissions and method.
There's no more direct-linking from photobucket like that. ...

All of the above is absolutely correct.
Having dealt with kind of thing for years as a professional artist, there's only one proviso that I would add ...
You absolutely own everything that you've ...

I know it's been a minute since you asked ...
But, I would treat them as a single door.
...
Just as it is a pair of pants, I would say that this is a pair of doors.
It's a single vestibule in ...

Vestcoat ... I gotta say ... I hadn't taken the time to really read the summary this year.
I'm glad I took a moment to really take the time. It's good. Really good.
I didn't know that there w ...

So, I'm not really sure how you're doing your math, and I don't know what kind of model you're using, but, I think that somehow, your model is coming up with positions or whatever that aren't reflecti ...

As Vestcoat points out, the Greyhawk folio is out.
I bought a PoD copy, bundled with the PDF. I'm thrilled to have it. Exclamation

...
I showed it to a friend of mine, and he initially thought I'd some ...

And for Pathfinder.
I'm a *huge* fan of Osiriani stuff from Pathfinder RPG. I have a rather large selection products including adventures, Adventure Path, item cards, etc. all based on Osirion. Th ...

I get back to South Jersey regularly for holidays. We should try to get together, sometime!
Speaking of which ... when do we get to hang out again?! It's been years, and I miss having that much fun ...

Just read your bio on your site, Icarus . . . just to catch up.

Last I knew you were in Dallas, now you're in Delaware. Strange, I left Houston and ended up in Pennsylvania! Shocked

How in the ...

EDIT: Compared to most threads, this one is wider, but it's readable.
Yes, it is. It's perfectly legible. And, ultimately, that's all that is important. Smile

Hey there, Saracenus!!
Yes, it's directly affiliated with the site. Unfortunately, there's a weird glitch where it's not letting the admin do stuff ... and it's not showing them in the members pan ...