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I would happily run a Boot Hill crossover.
Which, of course, is what happened with Murlynd and company in the Greyhawk campaign. The PCs went to the Old West.

I like the basic pattern I've read in the published material: the Oeridians were more-or-less just in their dealings with the Flan and demihumans of the Flanaess, while the Suloise were in many cases ...

I'm fond of stuff like Bath-time for the Hopping Prophet and Vote for the Goat.

Marvelous Talking Goat Party!

Cool

I also like Dungeonland and Land beyond the Magic Mirror quite a lot ...

That does make sense.

I think it is likely enough that he had read of the real Saint Cuthbert, at least in passing.
Saint Cuthbert is not obscure if you are interested in the history of Medieval B ...

Greyhawk includes, as we all know, a number of joke-names, anagrams, zany NPCs, and even a couple of funny and bizarre gods (Wastri, Zagyg).
Some D&D monsters that are part of the setting are ri ...

Wasn't there some link between Pholtus and the (comedy group) the Firesign Theater?

That quotation seems to show just the opposite.
Isn't Gygax clearly stating that he did not use real world religions in the Greyhawk campaign?
That means there's no connection with the real Saint Cu ...

That quotation seems to show just the opposite.
Isn't Gygax clearly stating that he did not use real world religions in the Greyhawk campaign?
That means there's no connection with the real Saint Cu ...

Probably just another party of murder-hobos that couldn't be bothered with fire safety.

Ghost Dance sounds cool.

RE 'Flan-Indians'

It works well enough for me considering that the Flaenaess was a sort of 'New World' colonized by the 'Old World' Oeridians, Suloise, and Bakluni after ...

The half-wolf offspring of Mika's wolf companion and the Princess in wolf form.

SirXaris

This is how you get beastmen.

I really just meant that spells like fireball take the place of cannonfire.

Nothing can replace Canonfire! Shocked

SirXaris

LOL

I was expecting that but it still made me ...

I figure mages are the cannon of the setting.
Very mobile cannon! But also squishy at lower levels.

In a sense. But magic is so much more powerful than guns. And in Greyhawk where magic is powerfu ...

I figure mages are the cannon of the setting.
Very mobile cannon! But also squishy at lower levels.

I could see England, too.

The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh does liken Saltmarsh to a 14th Century English coastal town, doesn't it?

On the topic:

Whenever I have run GH I've used, or at least assumed the existence of, all the gods, demigods, and heroes listed in the WoG boxed set plus whatever other deities and special charact ...

I sometimes think a vaguely Byzantine/East Roman vibe might be a good take on Keoland.

Something along those lines... more the idea that Keoland is the continuation of the Suel Imperium than a new ...

While I imagine Gygax was aware of the real Saint Cuthbert's existence, I seriously doubt any actual connection was intended.
Probably, he just thought 'Cuthbert' was a fun name.

On the topic of ...

While I imagine Gygax was aware of the real Saint Cuthbert's existence, I seriously doubt any actual connection was intended.
Probably, he just thought 'Cuthbert' was a fun name.

On the topic of ...

I sometimes think a vaguely Byzantine/East Roman vibe might be a good take on Keoland.

I suppose I regard Geoff, Bissel, and Gran March as rough equivalents of the Crusader States in that they are buffers of a pseudo-European civilization against the vaguely 'Saracen' hordes of the West ...

Let's not forget such classics as Gonorrheaus and Diarrheaus. Razz

But seriously, I like daemons/yugoloth.
I'm interested to see if anybody has thoughts on the relationship between NE daemon ...

Why are the Common Deities not part of a cultural group? Who do they belong to? Are they themselves linked together as are the Suel Gods, a pantheon? Where do they come from with regards to the gre ...

Erythnul's blood creates ogres, among other monsters.

Those could presumably breed.

DMPrata reminded me that there is the Monastery of the Grey Cowl, mentioned in UK2 The Sentinel.
The NPC monk from it is LN.

I had the impression that Quern was alone in his Hermitage and the other monks lived outside Berghof. The monk met travelling says the Monastery of the Grey Cowl is 'many leagues' to the north.

But ...

Thanks for making the Deity Database, by the way. It's great stuff.

I’d add the following:

Allitur
Delleb
Nerull
Norebo
Obad-hai
Olhydra
Osprem
Pelor
Sotillion
Syrul
Xerbo
Zilchus

These fit the listed regional alignments most closely:

Xerbo N
Oba ...

Nice find, but that's not the one I had in mind.

It's whatever the September 1984 issue is. The article is entitled "Survival is a Group Effort," pages 8-12.

This article covers age ranges fo ...

You all tapped into the sources I would use, but I recall somewhere reading an article in an older "Dragon Magazine" issue about humanoid lifespans. I will see if I can't unearth it somehow...

-La ...

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 ...

The Northern hemisphere is a better fit for the Moonshaes as described in the sourcebook, agreed.

I like what I took to be a subtropical Korinn archipelago from the module, Treasure, Hunt, though, ...

GODS OF THE HOLD OF THE SEA PRINCES

Bralm (cult protects slaves but endorses slavery at the same time)
Celestian (honored by sailors in general and navigators in particular)
The Green Man (farmer ...

I'd be interested in considering what the Flanaess's buffalo population would be like. The Flan could (and may still do in some parts of the world) use techniques like 'buffalo jumps' to drive them ov ...

Paghsat is the 'evil genius of the prairies' in The Enchanted Buffalo, a story by L. Frank Baum.
He isn't described in detail.

But I like the idea of a devil-bison as a patron of the Horned Soci ...

Moonshaes and Korrinn Archipelago

location relative to Flanaess:
SE across ocean, in Oerik’s southern hemisphere
climate:
subtropical in the Korrinn Archipelago, like Cornwall
cool maritime in ...

Maybe you can get the guy to add a citation?

Cool

My WoG boxed set has a map that shows three alignments for Celene: NG, LN, TN.

I run pre-Wars and without any attempt to adhere closely to later published sources (though I'm very happy to use th ...

I’m curious—what other Greyhawk material appeared in Imagine magazine?

Very little, I think. .

The magazine developed its own campaign setting, Pellinore. That's a flat world with a weird world ...

Anyone have an idea on the lifespan of orcs? I haven't been able find anything.

The 1st edition DMG has half-orcs in a range of 12-80 for the Young Adult to Venerable categories. Based on that, I ...

The one I find most interesting on that table is Celene: LN. I remember looking at that and going, the most elven of elven nations is LN?

Later books corrected that to CG--but I keep wanting to r ...

Sounds cool.

My take on the Sea Princes' slaving is that they are not ordinarily launching slave raids. Instead, they mount expeditions looking for cat pelts, dye-woods, exotic timber, and any othe ...

Kirt--

That astrological material sounds pretty sweet! Have you guys published it anyplace? Fanzine? DMsGuild product?

THE STARS DISPOSE...

Raymond--

I barely knew Imagine existed until ...

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?

I'm thinking of running a game set ther ...

I like that planar idea.

THE STARS ARE RIGHT!

The Players Guide to Greyhawk (AD&D2E) doesn't describe constellations but it does give Baklunish taboos, exactly twelve, based on birth months. The Baklunish are specified as casting horoscopes.

I think White Dwarf published a GH horoscope.
EDIT
No, it was Imagine Magzine.

# 2.

The months have pictures alongside them which must presumably be the constellations for the horoscope.

I ...

Random fact: Slade Henson moved Iuz to Tartarus in WGS2 and did an entirely new writeup on the demigod without consulting any previous source (Dragon #67, the WoG box, ToEE, or GH Adventures).

Movi ...

Dragon #299 details an order of monks dedicated to Nerull, drawn from the novel Oath of Nerull by T.H. Lain.

I'm looking at it now. The same article gives a write-up of Ember's order, The Ena ...

The WoG boxed set includes modified clerics with special weapons and powers.
Glossography p 38.
In AD&D1E I'd do the same thing for elf clerics with edged weapons.

I normally run AD&D2E, ...

Has anything been done , whether fan material or published commercial work, on the tall blue-black, curly haired, slant-eyed people in the Sea of Dust? They come from some region further to the south.

some possibilities:

1 Zuoken was LN as a mortal until Xan Yae's wisdom converted him to TN.

2 Xan Yae's clerics/priests (who possess some monkish abilities) are TN.
Monks who revere the twiligh ...

One of my fellow players in the infancy of my campaign played a magic-user who worshiped Arioch.

BLOOD AND SOULS!

I like Arioch.

These days I make it a rule to avoid using specific named devi ...

On a related note, has the alignment discrepancy between monks (lawful) and Xan Yae and Zuoken (both true neutral) ever been explained?

Sure, Xan Yae, being a goddess, can be explained away as not ...

Thanks, Rasgon.

I don't normally use Planescape material. I'll stick to the older stuff for this one.

It won't likely matter much.

In the WoGH boxed set and Dragon articles, several gods are specified as living on the Prime Plane; Iuz, Ehlonna, Obad-Hai, Fharlanghn, Wastri, Zagig (Prime/C.O.), and Olidammara.

Beory's home plan ...

The Scarlet Brotherhood gets a bad rap. That mountain/plateau region is straight-up LN. No sneaky snake of Lawful Evilness in sight.

But Kro Terlep and Ekul do not appear to lie within the shaded r ...

Bronze Band. Sounds fun.

Tang the Horrific worked as a merc for a while, according to Greyhawk Adventures, IIRC.

Oh, and while they aren't mercs, I suppose the Levellers from the Complete Book of Villains count as brigands.

I like those guys too.

Cool.

I'm thinking of adapting the brigands and thugs from Polyhedron #145: The Men of the Fox and the Guild of Blades.
I just need to decide where to place them.
Probably wherever fits that is a ...

Which, if any D&DG gods and heroes and creatures do you use in GH?

Central American Mythos for the Olman?

Odin?

Any of the Melinobenean or Nehwon material?
I wonder if Kos doesn't fit ...

I figure a significant number of brigands and bandits may actually be out of work mercenaries. They prey on the peasantry and merchants if nobody hires them to fight in the wars of lords and cities. ...

Interesting link!
Thanks.

You did already say it twice, but my question does tangentially bring up something which may deserve its own thread: free companies and mercenary war-bands of the Flaenes ...

Returning to this topic after a long time running other games and other settings, I have some different thoughts.
I'm going to use the alignment map as a guide along with published hints.

Greyhawk ...

Are adventurers really such a separate thing from the military?
Many adventurers are mercenaries, no?
Lords can hire them the same way they'd hire a bunch of crossbowmen or pike-men, only adventurer ...

ignore this ms Evil Grin

I like to keep monks exotic in the central Flanaess.

I'm fine with them being mostly from the Baklunish West or the Tilvanot Peninsula.

I'll have to consider whether an Olman monk tradition sur ...

I would also like flying cats.

There are at least two types of those in AD&D Second Edition. One is 'cat, flying' and the other is the tressym.

The SB book by SKR mentions a possible connection between Wastri and the Scarlet Brotherhood. A historical figure named Kevelli Mauk, I think, who might actually be Wastri or else one of his early cle ...

Where in the Flaeness would you guys place this campaign module?

EDIT

I'll move the tangential stuff to another thread, later.

RE monks:

Wastri! RIBBET!

He seems like a suitable patron for a monastery of wicked toad-brothers.
Or for the Siv, which a ...

Why not send both?

And why isn't the ruler recruiting adventurers for his armies, anyway?
Can he grant titles of nobility, land, serfs, and the right to rebuild ruined castles (dungeons inhabited ...

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Well, I've gone back over old ground, it seems.

Thanks as always for the answers and ideas, guys.

Greedy tomb-robbers and wizards of questionable morals presumably prefer Good neighbors but need the Evil guys to provide certain services and opportunities...

But I have always seen the Circle o ...

One thing I will do is find new homes for any gods listed as living in Concordant Opposition, as I'm doing away with that plane.

I'll probably place them on the Prime if they are nature gods or the ...

Greetings,

Personally I DO use Neutral as an alignment and would not counsel ditching it. A Neutral character, or being, doesn't necessarily kick a puppy today b/c they helped an old lady yesterda ...

Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders
Cat Lord
Other animal lords (Wolf Lord, Hawk Lord, Lizard Lord, etc.)
Camazotz (Olman god of bats)
Quetzalcoatl (Olman god; appears as a couatl)
Tezcatlipoca (O ...

Get your hands on "Monster Mythology." There might be some stuff in there you might like.

-LanthornI have it.

Time to yank it from the shelf...

One of the few notable features of GH that has never appealed to me is 'militant neutrality.'

When alignment is a cosmic conflict between Law and Chaos, Neutrality can be a valid intermediate pos ...

-I've seen people say that (it's on of JRR Tolkien's assumptions, IIRC), but I don't see why why 18th Century tech' would have to kill off the elves, or even magic. Magic would still be handy to have ...

Forgotten Realms includes a crazy amount of published material, and I find that some of it adapts well to Greyhawk.
The Cults of the Beast, which Greenwood introduced with the FR pantheon in Down to ...

The description of Flan traits seems more Ethiopian than any sort of Amerind to me, although I could see it either way.

I also think the unmixed/typical Baklunish are described as looking a lot mor ...

I once ran The Lost City adapted to WoG with the pyramid being placed under the Black Ice, heated by ancient steam tunnels and with automated food vats featuring as strategic resources.

Scahrossar was mentioned upthread.

She's described as being Olidammara's estranged sister.

I like the Sea Princes best for Night Below.

I imagine that Haranshire is a relatively cool upland region, though not so elevated as Beghof (from the Sentinel and the Gauntlet, UK 2 and 3).
Like B ...

I assume that the Skeptics were not atheists but rather followers of a humanistic philosophy. They admitted that the Powers existed but challenged the worship of the Powers and the influence of clergy ...

I have to qualify 'humanocentric.'

The population figures, even in the 3e materials, reflect a pretty low population density for humanity.
Why?

Look at the encounter tables and monster lists ...

Romance gone bad, perhaps.

With the idea that Ehlonna is part of both the Flannae and elven pantheons, I thought she could actually be the daughter of Obad-hai with an elven deity (Rillifane Rallat ...

Romance gone bad, perhaps.

1 Darlene map

2 the City of Greyhawk

3 The Fading Lands and other places of wonder and mystery

4 villains and evil sects: The Scarlet Brotherhood, Horned Society, Iuz, etc.

5 lots of spell ...

RE Silver, I like the idea that silver weapons are indeed fashioned from silver. That's why you really only see arrowheads and daggers; small piercing weapons, and bludgeoning weapons like silver-hea ...

'Cold iron' is poetic language for a sword or similar weapon made from iron.

So far as I know, it's only been portrayed as a special material in some RPG stuff and recent fantasy fiction.

I'v ...

IA IA
THE PROLONGED OF LIFE!

I figure Vatun is an aspect of Odin.

Odin as part of the original GH campaign, was he not? Sir Robilar worshiped him?

He was, yes. The question is whether you want to make him an actual part of ...

I figure Vatun is an aspect of Odin.

Odin as part of the original GH campaign, was he not? Sir Robilar worshiped him?

LIKE

The Fading Lands!

specialty priests/spheres

Domain of Greyhawk material

card-stock mini-adventures

DISLIKE

Some, but not all, of the Greyhawk Wars timeline and results

Do people see themselves as members of a specific faith... e.g. they only go to the Church of Saint Cuthbert and all other gods are false/dangerous/otherwise irrelevant?

Not as a rule, no. But ...

I think you edited this and removed the references to the elemental rulers (Akadi, Grumbar, Istishia, Kossuth), who I think are all appropriate for Greyhawk (since Oerth touches the elemental planes j ...

I'm thinking of a scenario is which Zuggtomy (or possibly FR's god Moander, whom I may import to WoG) rots an elfin forest and afflicts the elves living there with a nasty disease.

Where do you guy ...