Search found 60 matches

This may be tacky, but I thought I'd start this thread for discussion on my series of Bandit Kingdom articles. I'll add the adventure hooks link when it's posted.

History - http://www.canonfire.co ...

I know alot of art from 1st edition also has outfits sporting stuff like bell-bottoms or big collars and such that surely don't appear in current fantasy art.

I think it would be refreshing to have ...

So which moniker do you use for "The Nameless One Behind The Screen" Question

I answered "Dungeon Master", but that's a little misleading. I use "DM" for fantasy games, "GM" for all others, and referee fo ...

I don't think it has ever been revealed.
For some reason, I think PSmedger and Iquander knew. Maybe Tamerlain as well. Not sure why I think that, though.

Ancient history - probably best to let ...

I didn't know it was even an issue until yesterday. I read somthing like Gygax banished him/her. I read the Grey in the Hawk, or whatever it was called. Interesting article. If there is something ...

Never take a dip in an outside pool when a Fire Giant and his pet are around...

Looking pretty good. The only comment I can make is that the dwarf looks like he's been skinny-dipping and is about ...

I thought this might catch folks' eye :D

Hmmm... I just tried & it tells me the content is unavailable. Maybe you have to be friends with him.

Update: Heh. I thought that was a CC2 ma ...

Subj: The Day Greyhawk Died
Date: 97-03-28 19:32:28 EST
From: NiteScreed

Yeah, that's the one. Doesn't quite have the same punch now as it did then. Too many AOL in-jokes.

Stil ...

Oerthman ... I just can't find the words for how much you rock. That was one of the greatest posts I have read in ages!!
Hey, give the props where they are ...

From the days of yore on AOL comes a filk on "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music, a spontaneous collaboration between Iquander (Erik Mona), TSR Roger (Roger Moore), and Tamerlain (Steve Wilso ...

I would like to see a 4E Greyhawk, for the same reason I have looked forward to almost every D&D and AD&D product for two and a half decades - if I can use it as a whole I will and if not, I w ...

There are some gems in there - like Iquander's riff on A Few of My Favorite Things:

Paladin cowboys with magic six-shooters,
Half-buried starships whose robots kill looters,
Crumbling empires w ...

Furthermore, what's the point of the logs if the information can't be shared?

Ethically, you are probably right. Legally, I think there is a difference between passing around something in its orig ...

Paladin cowboys with magic six-shooters,
Half-buried starships whose robots kill looters,
Crumbling empires with mad Overkings,
These are a few of my favorite things.....

Thanks for sharin ...

If someone besides Gary had a complete copy of the Greytalk's emails, we could re-create the GT Archive via putting the collection online somewhere (Issak?) and then hitting it with google. It would ...

I -suspect-, but have never been able to confirm, that one or two uncorrupted copies of #29 existed. I'm not sure how or why. I also suspect that if there's additional "ultra-rare" material out ther ...

Ah, no, actually. If you've got #32 and #33, you might have some of the ultra-rares! I'm missing #27 (actually, I've got a file, but it's noted as "partial") and #29, which I'm certain was corrupted ...

I've got all the old folder logs but two (corrupted and do not exist at all, insofar as I know - fortunately relatively late in the AOL history, and probably filled with crap)
Let me guess - #32 and ...

With the deadline looming fairly close, I am curious whether there is anyone with plans for articles submitted, or about to be submitted.

Anyone, anyone ... Bueller, Bueller?
Love that movie...
...

The original article is several pages longer, but harder to find, and needs to be rewritten. It wasn't submitted here for a reason. ;)
Is the original the one you posted on the old AOL GH board? I ...

You mean you don't have the obligatory girl elf!? Shocked

Absolutely shocking! An outrage! Laughing

Well, yeah, but the red sequins would clash with her pink silk (priestess of Hanali Celanil). ...

You could give them a pair of red slippers and a little dog. Smile

Yeah, but that only gets them *back*. And who's going to wear those shoes? Happy

Sounds like a logical progression. I was only saying that you can't "tell" a DM how to run their game, you can only make suggestions. Like you just did and its a good one. Cool

Thanks. I actu ...

I would slip L1 and L2 between B2 and A1-4
I thought about that, but the geography doesn't work out. That would be a heck of a storm blowing them out of Woolly Bay, into the Azure Sea, through the T ...

In the Pumping Up Canonfire thread, Rossik brought up a FAQ to answer some Greyhawk-specific questions. One of them was "what order to run the supermodules in". That got me to thinking...

Does an ...

i belive one like "Is Tharizdun EEG?" , "What happend to Thrommel?", "whats the correct order to play the supermodules" and so on.

more greyhawk stuff then canonfire stuff.

Some of this is alre ...

I've already said that "burn out" can be areal problem. For those of you who are currently employed, think of your present job . . . "burn out." It would be nice to be someplace new, eh?
Having jus ...

I am not certaint hat I am talented in that area, but i keep telling myself that one of these days I am going to at least learn how to paint miniatures.
Hey - anyone can paint miniatures, it's learni ...

That is beyond awesome - extremely cool.

How did your players react when you unveiled it?

I meant "game respect" in the sense of containing significant references, information, and stylistic elements intended to overtly connect the book to the setting in a more than merely cosmetic way.
A ...

I know it'll probably have some people foaming at the mouth, but I have to say Gygax just wasn't that great of a writer. He became reasonably competent in his later years, but that's as far as I'm wil ...

The best Greyhawk novel, in terms of both literary quality and (perhaps arguably) respect for the setting, is Nightwatch by Robin Wayne Bailey. I have no idea why they didn't use this author more ofte ...

-3 GH novels i should read
1. Quag Keep by Andre Norton (old school Greyhawk, great writer)
2. Nightwatch by Robin Wayne Bailey (good writing)
3. Night Arrant by EGG (just fun, IMO)

-3 GH i ...

What an @$$...!

No appreciation for irony, I guess. Pity.

While I don't disagree, it strikes me as highly ironic that someone whose avatar is Mika-Oba from the cover of Rose Estes' The Demon Hand is calling Gargoyles crap...

and lizardmen keep getting votes, but no explanation! Laughing

Tastes like chicken? Happy

I still like the lizardmen from Grenadier's "Denizens of the Swamp" box - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tpope/so ...

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e245/btmcrae/orc2.jpg

I've always been partial to the Gruumsh pic, above. More apish, less piggish.

One other pointer: know you subject matter very well. Re ...

Seaking of maps,

Oerthman: I like that avatar pic you are using. I notice you have a strange landmass riding up on the east side of Hepmonaland. Care to comment? Wink

You want the long story, ...

Everyone should endeavor to identify where any unknown maps have come from, and then the file name can be changed, as well as the credits.
Strongly agree on this - there are a lot of anonymous maps ...

If going through the maps and organizing them is something that someone would rather not do, but be willing to do so, granting them FTP access to manage the files is something that I'm willing to do. ...

Your efforts are much appreciated, Theocrat - in triplicate. Your efforts are much appreciated, Theocrat - in triplicate. Your efforts are much appreciated, Theocrat - in triplicate. Wink

Ditto. ...

They updated T1 to 4e and it is is available as part of the current DM Rewards Program(I still haven't received mine, and I signed up for it in June). Like the original T1 it could be followed up wit ...

would be legaly possible to wizards to reprint ToeE? i mean, does it belong only to Wizards?

I'm almost sure they could, and it does. The original was copyright TSR, Inc., not Gygax (and IIRC, EG ...

RPG Countdown (http://rpgcountdown.com/) has a list up of the "100 hottest selling digital RPG products of 2008". Guess what's #43? The nearly 25-year old Temple of Elemental Evil. No mention of me ...

Does anyone know any other background materials ?
Are you looking for RPG-stuff only, or any source? If the latter, start with the The Arabian Nights (free from Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenber ...

Wotc forums, vis a vis GH are more casual fans or for those desiring a turn on the catwalk in front of Wotc - neither of which would be first choices if Wotc is doing the choosing with care.
...
Th ...

If you have only purchased 2 Greyhawk products ever, and did not slog through the disappointment of things like The Scarlet Brotherhood or the Greyhawk Wars board game, might I inquire on why you appe ...

In other words besides a few published folk here, we are beneath their notice now. So if we at Canonfire want to influence the future of hawk we need to cross-promote the site and our own competent kn ...

I’m a Greyhawker. And I’m a Grognard. These are the Grognard Rules for any future development of Greyhawk as a published setting.
Right with you on about 90% of this.

See. I’m middle aged a ...

Next time WotC revisits Greyhawk how would you hope they did it? What would your thoughts and suggestions be to the Design Team in charge of the project?

All right, I'll bite. (This all seems so ...

Of course, there's a simple solution to the whole discussion: WotC could just ask me what I want them to do, and I could tell them. Then everyone here could tell me how wonderful my decisions were.
...

Very nice detective work, Rob! I have a copy of DVD, but I think I just skimmed it - mostly picked it up because it had Vecna's name on it. Very nice detective work indeed.

After several at ...

Scroll down a post or two from the top and you'll see the new, improved link with lots of maps attached.

Yee-haw! You guys rock!

I tried that from work earlier today, and it gave me the old sit ...

www.GreyhawkOnline.com/canonfire

Hmmm...that link brings me back here. Am I missing something? I've looked through the CanonFire maps download section, but I don't see an FCW folder.

-Phil

Thanks to all who have responded - you guys are great! There are still maps I'm looking for, but my hard drive crash has become MUCH less painful in the last week or so.

-Phil

Ugh, yes.

Excuse me, I'm going to go scrub my brain with Drano now.

-Phil

P.S. Standing offer: send me $1 and I'll burn a Rose Estes book in your name. Help save the world! Happy

How many Greyhawk based novels can you count? By comparison, you cannot count all the Forgotten Realms novels.

Even more important: how many existing Greyhawk novels do you want to count? I think ...

I'm in the Houston area now and will undoubtedly have a much better chance of finding a gaming group here. Happy

Me, too, for a while at least. Maybe we can scare up a game sometime.

-Ph ...

The inevitable finally happened - the disk on my old PC got fried by a power hit in a storm*. I get a new computer, get set to reload my RPG stuff from backup and discover that Lord Entropy has taken ...

1. Are the greyhawk novels any good?
2. What other greyhawk books are available that are worth buying.
3. Does anyone know some places where i can download some greyhawk adventures.
1. Personal o ...