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Here is another fan site that mostly chronicles the adventures of the local gaming group. There are also personal musings and updates from the webmaster and other misc stuff. There are a couple adve ...

Here is another obscure one:

2e Module Return of the Eight has a young wizard named Skye the Lioness as a student of Jallarzi of the Circle of Eight living in her tower. In Casl Entertainment's mo ...

This is a fun thread! Let me toss out a couple more:

Two of the pregenerated NPC from the City of Skulls: Kendral and Carlenna got married after that adventure and are still hunting down the forc ...

One of my favorite things to read over and over again is old back issues of Dragon Magazine. I started reading and collecting the magazines round about 1987, began a subscription after that, and then ...

No worries! I just want to make sure things aren't lost in the internet.

My article is posted already, so thanks to you for doing that! Let's game on!

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I found another one. This is Dragons Never Forget, a small blog that has some information and articles about Dyvers, old Greyhawk lore, and other tidbits. The last update was from 2024, so it has be ...

I was looking over some of Anna Meyer's maps and found some details that I could not figure out. The provinces in the Hold of the Sea Princes seemed very specific, and looked like they were based on ...

He was a paladin .... once.

This idea sounds wicked cool!

Feel free to use any of my ideas from the Canonfire forum if you want to utilize them. The two that are up on DM Guild look great and I will have to get them soon! ...

To any of the fine admin folk on the site:

I submitted my article a while back and it is not yet posted. Do I have to re-submit it or otherwise edit it? Please let me know as I do not want to hav ...

This has been an excellent series! Thanks so much for all the hard work you have put into this project. I loved all the write ups and the attention to detail put into each entry.

I'll be looking ...

OK, so here is Part II of my "Greyhawk Modules on Dragonsfoot" thread.

These are ones that a not specifically Greyhawk, but are close enough to rate as part of the Greyhawk collector's inventory.
...

In starting this discussion, I realized that there are other Greyhawk modules on Dragonsfoot that are worth adding to your collection. These are 1st and 2nd edition AD&D pdf copies that are free ...

I have just found two new modules set in Greyhawk on Dragonsfoot! New Greyhawk material is always welcome and these are looking pretty good. The modules are:

Sea of Dust - a high level adventur ...

To all,

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it has been several weeks since I submitted an article, and EltonJ has just submitted a couple. Can one of the fine admin folk see about getting some ...

First off, congratulations on getting an article in! We can always use more material from the loyal fanbase. Once you get started, and the next thing you know you have your own little body of work i ...

My second favorite villains in Greyhawk are the yuan-ti. I think you develop favorite monsters from a combination of things: the artwork in the manuals, having satisfying encounters run with them, m ...

For TSR's 20th anniversary, they released a high level module The Labyrinth of Madness. It was set in a generic location. I do not know of many who gave this one a go, but I am researching some bits ...

One more thing, out of a sense of completeness, let me leave a link here to the old (1995 or around about that time) Geoff Project.

It was mostly a gazetteer style alternative look at Geoff, but th ...

Just to throw out there -

I did a Keoish Intelligence Report from the Sea Princes. It is nominally set in the time period after the Greyhawk Wars, but the locations can be modified to fit any tim ...

Not to be too negative, but there really is no reason to have this product! Realms of Horror consolidates four modules together, but as mentioned above, there is no relation between any of them. The ...

Great post!

This is a very thorough list and is itself a tribute to all those fan made, professional and semi-pro additions to the great gaming adventure.

Thanks!

Osmund-Davizid

Ok, the positive aspects of Realms of Horror:

For the time it came out, this was a welcome item. Re-publications of older modules were few and far between back in the day. So for those of us who ...

As an added bonus, I will do a review of the collected S Series in S1-4 Realms of Horror (RoH).

This really is not a supermodule per se, as there is no attempt to link any of these modules togeth ...

After Dragon Magazine finished its print run in 2007, there was a void in the RPG magazine world. From 2007 to 2012, Kobold Quarterly was the magazine for Kobold Press, Wolfgang Baur's publication an ...

To all,

Here is another bit of information about a B series module for the good of the order. On Dragonsfoot, there is a fan made addition to B4 The Lost City by Demos Sachlas that you should chec ...

Greyhawk, being Gary Gygax's campaign, was firmly set in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons side of the RPG, as opposed to D&D. Eventually, the world of D&D was called Mystara, and the publish ...

I just got a couple more of Robert Kuntz's third party adventures. This time, I got them in hardcopy via snail mail, but it was worth the wait.

These are RJK1 and RJK2, The Cairn of the Skeleton K ...

I was reading the latest issue of Visions of Greyhawk and was struck by the implications of one of the articles. In the article "Soul Husks of the Old One" by Samuel D. Weiss , he describes Iuz's uti ...

A link to vestcoat’s list/site would be appreciated

That is the problem - I have no idea where I got this! So vestcoat, if you are out there, if you can jump in and let us know where to get your A ...

Again, the measure of the influence of a module is reflected in the volume of fan made and official sequels, additions, and spin-offs produced. The D series from QotS and the final module Q1 had thei ...

See "Lerrek's Tale" in Oerth Journal 13 by Andy Seale.

It was also available at the Codex of Greyhawk, under the 'Miscellaneous' tab, here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020604005242/http://grey ...

A measure of just how seminal this series of adventures became is evidenced by the amount of spin offs, sequels, inspirations, follow-ons, homages, that have been produced officially, unofficially, an ...

So what is overall assessment of QotS?

I am kinda going to go against my rules by stating that - as written - this supermodule does not have enough new materials to rank it much higher than the mod ...

As for the bad parts of QotS - really the worst critique of this supermodule is that there is not a lot of room to put in any extra information. This makes the possession of QotS not a necessity when ...

Since we are on the subject of missing modules...

I have downloaded the module QMG The quest of the Mist Golem, but do not know whether or not QMG2 or QMG3 were ever posted. Does anyone have links ...

As for the positive aspects of QotS:

The continuity between SotS and this supermodule were better than the ToEE-SotS handover. First off, the levels of the characters were more appropriate to pick ...

If anyone has any comments or questions about my articles in Visions of Greyhawk, please post them! I am also looking for suggestions on future articles here. It is great to be here!

Great follow u ...

Now I come to the big one - GDQ1-7. Queen of the Spiders!

This is going to be a hard one to review. It is in the same format as ToEE and SotS - that is it is a 128 page book. The map section and ...

First off,

Thank you so much for including my little article in this volume! I was not expecting that and am flattered to think that my little contributions can stand alongside some of the great w ...

I think these last two are from the Codex of Greyhawk, in the adventures section.

I believe that PC10 Defection, is the same as the Defection on the Codex of Greyhawk site. There is an adventure b ...

Thanks for the latest entry! I look forward to each new monster mythology as it adds in so much flavor to my campaigning and more lore is always welcome.

Thanks so much for keeping this project go ...

Thanks for the additional information! A1-4 has certainly left its legacy, as measured by the adventures it has inspired.

I would be remiss in not following up with some more information from T1-4 ...

DMPrata is right - I assumed that due to the age of the issues that they were of a later edition. Looks like Dungeon threw a bone to us folks who still stick to 1st edition! That makes these adventu ...

Some final thoughts on SotS:

As I stated earlier, A1-4 is a classic series of modules. SotS itself was ranked as #20 in Dungeon Magazine's top 30 greatest adventures of all time. So clearly this ...

Overall impressions of SotS:

First off, I am/was a big fan of the A1 to A4 series. They were very Greyhawk in setting and tone, captured the spirit of good fighting against evil, introduced genuin ...

My son had one of his drawings accepted for publication in the super-module, SotS.

That is very cool! You are talking about the hardback reprinting of A1-4 with A0 included, correct? Against th ...

Grodog,

As far as the Ecology of the Piercer goes, it is right from the article itself in Dragon Magazine Issue 72. There was an editor's note that stated "This article previously appeared in Drag ...

So now for the downsides of the supermodule. One note, I am evaluating SotS as a supermodule, not the individual adventures A1 to A4. This is really a look at the whole package to see if the new mat ...

OK let us talk about the positive aspects of SotS.

One thing I appreciated about SotS was actually the forward comments by David Cook. He explains the thought process behind making the A1 through ...

I post my updates to this thread when I feel like it. And now I feel like it!

Fantasy locations were a good source of materials in the pages of Dragon. The best articles about geography had enoug ...

Now, on to the reason I began this thread - Scourge of the Slavelords (SotS).

As I said earlier, I owned the original A1, A2, A3, and A4 modules, but never had the collected supermodule before. It ...

OK, some final thoughts about T1-4 ToEE;

Ultimately, I thought this product as written wanted to be epic, but it ended up being too disjointed and obscure to make a lasting impact on the world of G ...

Alrighty - here is my overall impression of the T1-4 supermodule.

As a collector of Greyhawk and a fan of the setting, this is something that you should own, either electronically or in print. But ...

So now I come to the cons part of ToEE.

I confess, part of this is going to be personal to me, but I tried to like this supermodule, but just do not. I know it is a "classic" and has been voted on ...

The Pros:

Again, this is hardly a genuine review of the supermodule format, because in this case, the supermodule is all we have of ToEE. Because that, this supermodule is a must have for the Grey ...

Starting off with the first one, T1-4, it is hardly fair to critique. Out of the alleged four modules it is based on, only one, T1 The Village of Hommlet, was ever separately published. So in essence ...

In the days of yore, TSR packaged up a series of modules to make one big compilation - a "supermodule" if you will. In an effort to make the whole more than just the sum of its parts, materials were ...

I remember reading about a dwarven king in the Jotens named Bad Ax(e), but I can't find any reference with a Google search.

Google can't help you? Challenge accepted!

I believe that the referenc ...

I just got my last issue of Gygax Magazine from the mail order, and am taking some time to write up my thoughts about it. This was a short lived magazine, so comparing it to some of the others, that ...

To mtg:

As far as what I actually have used in my campaigns, I only used the Mageholm in Rel Deven and the School of Fire to any large degree.

For Mageholm, I had my party immediately followin ...

Bravo to a great twenty years! Your contributions to the Greyhawk lore echo throughout the internet! I, for one, hope to see another twenty years of excellence from your pen!

Respectfully,

Os ...

Now that I just got my article on magic schools posted here,

http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1314&mode=&order=0&thold=0

I want to direct ...

No worries! Thanks for all the work it takes to administer this website!

O-D

To all you administrators out there:

Any word on when the next articles will be posted? This one has been in the hopper for a couple weeks now. No biggie if there are other things going on, just ...

To all,

I got another article in the queue, and I want to go over my thought process for it while waiting for it to post. One of my personal favorite articles on CF is the series of "Wizards Libra ...

Nice bit of lore to pass on. I liked the write ups of the death knights in the Living Greyhawk Journal and this adds more character to them.

Thanks for posting!

To all,

All right, I see that the articles are now posted. Let me explain a few things about my thought process.

I divided the thread into three articles (there was a lot to go through in the t ...

One more thing - I was in my base library and found the novelization of Rod of Seven Parts written by Douglas Niles. So I had to check it out!

It....was a thing. Bottom line is that it was forget ...

My kinda go-to for placing generic D&D adventures was in the mountainous area between Ratik and the Frost Barbarians. In my campaign, I set up a semi civilized "boom town" type settlements in tha ...

As I was rooting about on the internet, I came across a magazine that I did not know about before - Australian Realms. There are issues on the internet archive website and I checked them out.

Turn ...

One of my favorite threads from my time on CF is the one in which it was a challenge/collaborative effort to come up with layers of the Abyss. The challenge was to make up an Abyssal layer, name anot ...

So my overall assessment of the Blood Wars is that if a) you enjoy the Planescape setting as an addition to your Greyhawk experiences, it is a keeper and b) if in your Greyhawk campaign you do a lot o ...

OK, a couple questions to answer here:

MTG - the location of Mantor was never written down, but I envision it in the north-central Azure, just south of the Sea of Gearnat at around R3 or Q3 - 111 o ...

The Cons:

The negatives to this boxed set really are a reflection of the issues I had with the Planescape setting as a whole. I disliked the overuse of the first person "thieves cant" style narrat ...

To all,

I see as I made a post last night that I have been an official Greytalker here on Canonfire since 2003! Now I lurked for a time before I officially joined, but have been active ever since, ...

Robo spam aside, let us get into the pros and cons of this boxed set!

Pros: The three adventures in this boxed set are not overly high level, but can be easily scaleable for higher level play. T ...

Vulcan,

You are correct - the Sinking Isle is in the Greyhawk Hardback book. But it is located near the Sea Barons, not in the Azure. The origins of that location are mysterious, the sahuagin ar ...

When I was DM'ing my brother and his friends, we made it to the Q1 module. That offered infinite possibilities for lower plane adventuring. We were having a great time traveling from portal to porta ...

So I just had my underwater city idea posted. I confess that my big reason was to try and expand out some locations in the vast expanse of emptiness that is the Flannaess' oceans.

This is an are ...

Spammer account - rats! I thought someone was interested in the thread! Oh well.

Anyway...

As kind of a bonus, let me make a couple comments on a similar module: Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. It is part of the 2nd edition Tomes series, but was not a boxed set. It appears to me to be somewha ...

My Overall assessment of Dragon Mountain is colored by my experience with it.

I enjoyed running it as a DM and going through the adventure, more or less as written. Some of the weirder aspects go ...

Now for the cons:

As I mentioned before, some of the extra wild cards sprinkled into the dungeon to mix things up from just fighting rank-and-file kobolds may just rub you the wrong way. There is ...

Here is another note -

Recently, I have been on a kick buying and going through third party Greyhawk products. One of the publishers has a proposed series of adventures set in the (name fuzzed up ...

So first I will discuss the positive aspects of this boxed set.

I must confess, when we played this back in the day, we really enjoyed it. I think there is a way to play this adventure as written ...

There was a discussion of differing alignments of vampires in the Dragon Magazine article "Mind of the Vampire" in Issue 162 that is worth checking out.

The author, Nigel Findley, postulated that d ...

Dragon Mountain: the boxed set

I think this was supposed to be a flagship product for the 2nd edition, judging from the old ads I saw for it. It has a huge megadungeon, a dragon, and promised to b ...

This just came out this month,

Rob Kuntz has released his Dark Druids module in pdf format this month. I scooped it up and have been going through it. I think it is a great piece for the old scho ...

Some final thoughts on the Rod of Seven Parts:

In my research on the boxed set, I found a site that has a nice summary and information updated by editions on the Rod and other aspects of the advent ...

So my overall assessment:

I wanted to like this adventure. I did like the attempt to bring back the original pieces of lore in the 2nd edition and spend some time to really detail an artifact of p ...

Now on to the negatives -

Cons: While the hunt for the Rod of Seven Parts would seem to be a natural epic adventure, I could not get into the story. While your adventurers were tracking down the p ...

So for the positives:

With the aforementioned Dragon magazine article, the adventure is easily placed in Greyhawk. While there are no specific references to Oerth in the module - it is a generic 2 ...

Here is an obscure one:

Randy Richards wrote a series of articles ages ago on an AOL Greyhawk board about "Bayou Halflings". These guys lived in the edges of the Hool marshes and developed a disti ...

The next box on my shelf is 1996's Rod of Seven Parts. Now this was an artifact that dates way back to the earliest days of the hobby. In the 2nd edition era, TSR wanted to start up a series of maxi ...

Good points Vestcoat,

I think I gave the benefit of the doubt to the designer to focus on the tomb and make the other locations more generic for mass consumption. 2nd edition AD&D was a tough ...

One final thought on the adventure, I do like the acknowledgement by the designer of the potential dangers to the characters the module presents. This is clearly illustrated by the pictures throughou ...

My overall assessment of Return to the Tomb of Horrors is a mixed bag.

As a piece of Greyhawk lore, by all means, this is a nice product to add to your collection. It makes the motivations of the ...

Grodog,

Great find! I heard of this little promotional but never saw it before. Thanks for posting! Anyone know of any other Tomb of Horror ties ins/homebrews/additional materials? If so, pleas ...

Now for the cons,

As stated before, this adventure is very tough. When you add in the original Tomb of Horrors into it, it just makes a meatgrinder of a game. The last act of the adventure takes ...