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Editing it right now, Califor. Hopefully out in the next few weeks.

-Gary

NPCs/Critical Threats sounds like an excellent topic for a postfest. I would gladly go along with that and contribute too.

I'm putting the final touches on Visions #3, which should come out before ...

Drops tomorrow, Monday.

The Suel have so many Lost Cities, they really need to start taking care of their stuff.

Congratulations Osmund-Davizid,

You are truly one of the most valuable contributors to the site and glad to still have you kicking around. So many have been lost to the mists...

-G

You might be able to lay your hands on the Astrology article for Greyhawk?!?!

Let us know, Kirt!

The art that inspired the look and feel of Panzos:

http://www.canonfire.com/cfgraphics/panzos.png

CSL,

You are not probably, you are definitely CF's biggest and steadiest contributor without a doubt.

I want to find ways to better show off your material, especially the fiction which is highly ...

Marc,

Originally the plan was to publish both together, which would have been more synergistic. But we wanted to get the issue out on time. Port Toli will have a lot more lore about the god and ...

Kirt, so glad to see you are still around!

One of the eldest of the Greytalkers, still walking the earth, when so many have crossed the veil of Realinor.

Working on any projects? ::hint:: ::hin ...

Allan,

First off, Hail to the Oerth Journal, 28 years and counting, long may it continue.

As to the question, I think there is more than enough fan material to sustain two or more journals ded ...

I'll be putting out a couple of articles on this area in the first volume of the new zine, including a writeup of Port Toli, its history and layout, with a map. Also an article on a god favored by th ...

Hey guys,

My two cents. The Oerth Journal continues to exist and we should be proud of of it as one of the longest running zines in fandom. But this is more about Canonfire and its new direction ...

Still mulling it over, I'm certainly leaving enough "space" to incorporate it. I do like the idea of Suel successor states that hardly anyone in the Flanaess has heard of. A great way to send your ...

Here are some crude speculations about Suel and other migrations I did some time back:

http://www.canonfire.com/oeridianhome3.jpg

I'm aware it contradicts some of the lore in the 1983 boxed ...

This map would be the state of play over 1000 years ago. It's possible there were no other cultures that were close to the Imperium, or if so, they were thoroughly dominated as client states.

Long ...

These ideas arose from a series of discussions we had about the nature of the Suel Imperium. I posited an ancient land that was dominated by inland seas, which most importantly had access to the sou ...

Syncretize. Good word, going in the rolodex.

There are many places of goodness and neutrality within the lands of the Flan, such as the Kingdom of Queen Ehlissa, so admired by the Oeridians, but they are often unmentioned. As Rasgon says, the l ...

Also, I have felt for a long time and still feel, the truly great Castle Greyhawk Product has yet to be written and would probably draw inspiration from all these sources, plus the recollections of Ga ...

Great to see you around, Rob.

No problem. Docjacques.

There was very little lore for the Sheldomar Valley and Keoland in the 1e Greyhawk material. We got a few more data points in the 2e Greyhawk era, so I was primarily respon ...

This was a very difficult piece of lore to pin down at the time, as there were so many contradictions which Rasgon notes.

Ultimately, the deciding factor was the existence of the Chronicle of Secre ...

Sorry for the long delay, I'm working on a continental map of the Underdark to front the piece that is kind of massive and my perfectionist gene is fully kicked in.

It will be out soon, hopefully f ...

Huge oversight. Send their locations and we'll put them on.

The Suel Diaspora is a cool and broad topic with many branches which we should explore in other threads. I'm not familiar with the "Onnwi", though its pronunciation makes me think they are boring, lo ...

I think to say that magic was outlawed in Keoland is too simplistic. There is a subtle and historical path to how these things progressed.

Initially, most of the mages who migrated to the Sheldoma ...

I think the problem is those are links to code to produce an image, but not an image itself (.jpg .gif .png etc) And the code on the forum can't deal with it.

Not sure there is a solution, beyond ...

It got corrupted, so it's slowly rebuilding once again. Hopefully, it will be fully back soon. Don't know if there's something I can do to kick it to speed up.

-Gary

Updated Table of Contents. If we are missing anything that is coming in by April 15th or so, let me know.

http://www.canonfire.com/uptoc.png

Ok. For now please send any articles to psmedger@canonfire.com and I'll make sure the editors get it.

-Gary

Thanks! Should add some more lore to it.

http://www.canonfire.com/i/The_Final_Descent.png

A little late, but we're getting it off the ground.

-G

I will be writing an article on the Underdark beneath the City of Irongate, that which is hinted at in the Irongate Article in Dragon #351.

For whom do the Dark Ones, creep?

What edition of the Postfest would this be? XIX or XX?

It's been a long time coming, but due to popular demand, Canonfire has decided to revive the Postfests!

What is a Postfest? A Postfest is a shared design project where members of Canonfire (or anyo ...

It's been a long time coming, but due to popular demand, Canonfire has decided to revive the Postfests!

What is a Postfest? A Postfest is a shared design project where members of Canonfire (or anyo ...

On a serious note,

The Keoish have never been subjects of the Great Kingdom, nor overlapped them very much, save for a brief stint prior to and during the Short War in Veluna.

We should also rec ...

Good discussion and lots of great points made.

For the Kingdom of Keoland, I wanted to do something different (I view Furyondy and Nyrond as more traditional absolute hereditary monarchies like Eng ...

LOL,

Hmmm, thought this thread was about looking for love in Keoland.

Someone create a Match.com or E-Harmony for lonely Neheli!

Just make sure they don't get matched with their sisters...

Lots of guys like you around, coming back to the hobby after a long hiatus. You are in good company!

If you want to experience some "high threshold" Greyhawk games, you can try signing up for one ...

This was fun to do:

https://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/2021/01/ring-of-five-questions-round-16.html

What would your answers be?

-Gary

Reading through this thread made me realize that at one time were going to do an article featuring the Seer, Maure Castle, Eli Tomorast, Warnes Starcoat, and other lore around the Duchy of Urnst.

W ...

I'll try to join / view the stream, but even if unable, I'd love to later learn your thoughts about the following:
How far did Sanduchar the Navigator explore? What, if any, legacy of those explorati ...

Join Anna Meyer, Mike (mortellan), Gary (Pluffet Smedger), and for the first time, Rich "Longetalos" D., as we discuss sea-based gaming, great naval powers like the Sea Princes, and pirate locations l ...

Join Anna Meyer, Mike (mortellan), Gary (Pluffet Smedger), and for the first time, Rich "Longetalos" D., as we discuss sea-based gaming, great naval powers like the Sea Princes, and pirate locations l ...

Looks like there is a bug, working on it....

The Great Rob Bastard!

https://greyhawkonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/OJ34-Cover-Thumbnail.png

Grab it at: https://greyhawkonline.com/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=8140

Contents:

Monsters, Famous ...

Another legend from the early days of D&D is gone. We will never know his like again. If you have time, you can enjoy some of his appearances on Lord Gosumba's youtube channel: https://www.you ...

Hey Kirt!

Sorry I missed your response the first time, not sure how you got listed as a guest, but probably logged out somehow.

Sadly, I probably lost a lot of my materials from the 90s, due to ...

Mordenkainen having an army, never seemed right to me, but of course Gygax loved his wargaming.

It also works in regular articles and journal posts.

Hey Kirt!

Hope this finds you well. Yeah, I made the change, to help find something. But we can see if its a user option, maybe everyone can set it for themselves.

I told some of the guys abou ...

SirXaris,

Thanks! Its a work in progress and we know the original data was not complete or might have had missing or wrong information. So any updates/ideas for locations and names, just add them ...

New upate, we now have the Zavoda index hooked up to the nations and things are smoother in general.

If anyone has any questions for Erik or the panel, please add them to this thread before the stream starts, say 6pm ET, and we'll try to squeeze them in.

You have it exactly right, Rip!

You can grab your copy here:

http://greyhawkonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/OJ-33-Cover-Thumbnail.png

Lots of varied articles by fans of the Greyhawk Setting, including one by me.

I wil ...

My two coppers,

I agree that the overall ethos and culture of the SB is evil. But I think in any sufficiently large group of people you are going to have exceptions, especially if avenues of esca ...

I was thinking of picking up some Dungeon Mags and I had a question. Can any one tell me the top 10-20 issues that either are:

1.) Set in GH (good ones)
2.) Have really good low 1-10 lvl modules. ...

Looks like it's still published at http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Top but isn't linked to anymore.

What's the scoop Gary? :D

Allan.

Hey Allan,

Unfortunately, it looks like b ...

If some enterprising person could make an index or collection of the cities with maps and their citations, they would be a hero.

And we'd be glad to host it as a project.

-G

Yes that's just a gatehouse. Though a massive one that houses the main gates to the Kalmar Pass and onward to Ratikhill.

But I totally understand why some people were confused. I aim to fix that. ...

The maps in the adventure were ok, but unfortunately, I think the map of the city was subpar in many respects:

http://www.canonfire.com/cf/BIN/SpinecastleCityMap.png

1) It didn't do a good job ...

The amount of Greyhawk lore in this adventure is amazing.

We were really trying to create a mini campaign setting with the article. Leaving hooks and adventuring opportunities through out the back ...

Jason,

As the author of one of the articles in that issue, I find this very cool. Definitely going to try to add to the entries, even if its not official!

-Gary

Lord Gosumba is hosting Len Lakofka tonight (show has already started).

If you are so inclined, go to his twitch channel:

https://www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba

Should run from 8-10PM ET.

Recor ...

Seekers of the arcane gives a 404 error.

Who are they?

The wiki has moved (and schismed) since I originally started this thread.

I fixed the urls in the forums for links to articles from c ...

Yeah, I am diving into Mortellan's article, its great work. I'll have a review of some of these articles hopefully posted on the forums.

That's great, made me laugh. Imagine what the camprats would say...

Good job, Amy.

A meta article for the things that every good DM should keep in mind when developing NPCs and the campaign setting. I would only add one more "W" to the standard journalism list: "W ...

I agree, the setting differs greatly from Greyhawk and isn't Oerth.

But it seems EGG might have borrowed a few of his place names and NPC names from what I understand.

-G

As an aside, I recall hearing some episodes of that cartoon had some possible obscure GH references in them. If anyone recalls that, let us know.

-G

For those of you GH fans, who like me, grew up the in the 1980s with D&D and saturday morning cartoons, you might get a kick out of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmCTtom62HM

Its ...

Great, which article was it?

Mine was called: Reign of Death. It's about an alternate Greyhawk where the Death Knights had initially won.

-Gary

Hi everyone, just an announcement that Oerth Journal #32 is out. Its release was going to coincide with GaryCon (until the plague of Incabulos forced its cancellation.)

It's hard to believe that t ...

If you are sure you already had an account on the wiki, try doing a password reset to recover the account.

Check it out at https://ghwiki.greyparticle.com

If you don't have an account, you can now create one.

Editing is still restricted to admins (as the spammers are still out in full force), but I'm ...

Ok, I enabled the password reset tool, start with Log in and click the link.

Considerable thanks must go to lamashtu, without whom the wiki wouldn't have been recovered.

If you guys notice anyth ...

The wiki is back and can be found here:

http://wiki.greyparticle.com

Before a lot of other people start using it, I thought it would be good for the regulars to poke around and see how things lo ...

Oh sure Allan, trying to get me to burn my Wish spell? ;-)

-Gary

It looks like the data has been recovered and the wiki will be back shortly.

Hey guys,

I may have restored the full index for searching the forums again, but I'll need you to test it to be sure its right.

I manipulated the table and storage variables to make them more ro ...

Hey guys, good thread.

I thought perhaps I could share some of the assumptions that went into the Irongate entry in the LGG and the Dragon article.

As the Kingdom of Aerdy grew and expanded from ...

Great work, Mort as always.

Rest assured, I will be refining it Thanael.   For now I will try to set all message before Oct 1st as read on all accounts, so it should only truly be the new ones that open.

I just posted a fix. You should only have to read the message in order to count it as read, not remove it from the inbox as well.

Looks like it was an obscure setting on this forum. We found it and fixed. Only admins got those buttons for some reason, so I can understand why we couldn't see the problem. But it should be fixed.
...

We'll be happy to host an LG forum, FAQ, or whatever else you require.

CF is here to preserve Greyhawk, all editions and incarnations.

-G

As the author of the articles and the link implied in the first post, I can confirm (as Rason implies) that yes, the flora, fauna, and natives of the Isle of the Ape were taken from Oerth's Isle of Dr ...

Ragr,

As the primary person responsible for the new population numbers, I can offer you some insight into our thinking in the LGG.

As a preface, however, I will note that a significant number of ...

Hey all,

If anyone needs any Silent Ones or Seekers lore sussed out let me know. I'm doing a bit of development in preparation for some articles for Canonfire and the Oerth Journal. We have a Seek ...

Hey Raymond,

This is Gary H....I saw your post, decided to pop in on the topic (best way to reach me is psmedger@canonfire.com).

What question did you have about Measuring up the Oerth?

You c ...

Okay, after struggling to reproduce the problem, then I couldn't reproducing it. This appears to be related to the browser you use.

There is a bug on the HTML editor on those forms. I couldn't st ...

Thanks guys, we appreciate it. Cebrion has done an excellent job in recreating the feel of the 1983 Guide and I'm working to get all the coding in. There is still a lot more to come and not all the ch ...

Please post a list of all the blogs and fan webpages and will create a blog roll on the front page to link them all.

-Gary

Hey all,

Firstly, sorry for all the outages this week. I wasn't able to update you on the situation, since I wasn't getting much feedback myself. Looks like we had some technical issues with the ...

Hey David.

It was a pleasure to work on, alas you didn't get to see the whole thing. The backdrop was as big as the adventure. Perhaps we can correct that on CF very soon....

-Gary

Great work everyone.

If anyone has something they still want to get in, we'll take them until thursday morning.

-Gary