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For me, personally, because keepers of lore and hiders of secrets screams Wizard (and Lore Bard) so loudly my throat is sore. Innate magicians obsessed with the ancient lore and magical secrets of th ...

Cooool. I seem to have missed issue 26? Is that still available?

I hated making the Silent Ones a sorcerer prestige class so I generally ignore it. It was part of 3e's attempt to be inclusive. They play quite a significant role in my campaign. It's fun to have a ...

I agree that the censuses only take into account some of the populations and that non-human estimations drastically increase overall population numbers.

However, our assumptions are based on our ow ...

I never liked swapping Heironeous' chosen weapon from axe to sword. Our priest still wears chain mail and wields an axe - optimisers be damned.

I agree that Markessa is the brains behind the slave ...

Well I've converted the bestiary to DDN and I'm going to run this as a playtest module at the weekend. It's quite old school and my preliminary scan of the monsters is that they hit quite hard but no ...

Well I've converted the bestiary to DDN and I'm going to run this as a playtest module at the weekend. It's quite old school and my preliminary scan of the monsters is that they hit quite hard but no ...

I love this tool. Thanks for the update.

I'm working my way though the LG stuff and there are tons of notes on noble houses both major and minor.

Here are some notes from LG Geoff - some of the LG stuff has stuck with the flavour of 1e when wood elves were reclusive xenophobes so being a wood elf comes with a lot more baggage if you prefer that ...

Village of Hommlet
Adventure in the Twisted Thickets (near White Plume Mountain) - looks like they added a dungeon to the eye socket cave mentioned as a possible resting place in the original mod?
A ...

Lots of Greyhawk Goodies...

I suppose you could link this in with the Order of the Storm from AoW? They might have dabbled and known about all sorts of forbidden lore which could come flooding back.

The article is good fun. Similar to the articles they did on Hardby and Spinecastle way back. It's a fairly basic background with some information on city locations and the surrounding area includin ...

Hmm - looks good! While I won't get my money's worth and I could easily obtain a copy off one of my co-players, I am prepared to subscribe just to get the article and I will tell them that's why I've ...

If you are subscribers, go onto the forums and make some noise - preferably not a load of noise about how rubbish the article is. If we want them to start churning out some Greyhawk related stuff we ...

I rather prefer the lower population levels from earlier editions. For my own gazeteer, I decided to meet in the middle. I agree that even 'civilised' lands need not have dense populations. most se ...

It's a voluntary project so resources are just people and time! If I can get enough people, I can produce something workable in a greatly reduced time!

Hello!

I'm looking for volunteers to help me collate information about the Living Greyhawk years from available sources for inclusion in an updated LG Gazeteer. Essentially I'm hoping to collate i ...

There is some new stuff including a stone giant module that was quite fun - I really did feel guilty about killing them but you will be pleased to hear that we sneaked through the children's bed chamb ...

I can live with this. I'm only as faras Dyvers on the LG material. the last thing I need is new stuff!

However, the simple nature of backgrounds (3 skills and a non-combat benefit) means that a lot of Greyhawk-themed backgrounds should be simple to conjure. Maybe we should start now...

Every edition has its pros and cons. We currently play 4e but took some time out to run a level 1-3 2e adventure and it was shocking to recall how awful all low level classes except specialised fight ...

I don't think resurrecting LG is needed but I would like to see all that hard work recognised and documented for future DMs and players.

I've been going through what information I can find and dist ...

I think that there was a church of Istus in Nyrond where the high priestess was a seer. You have the Fires of Time in Sunndi. Aulicus the Prophet of the Hool (although his prophecies may not have be ...

I'm not proud of the fact that we massacred Nosnra's giant children in their beds when we might have pulled it off with a skill challenge but we were so paranoid that we could be overwhelmed in 4e tha ...

Played the Steading this week - took 4 days or constant gaming but it was awesome fun.

I haven't had a chance to review the 4e Steading of the Hill Giant Chief yet but reviews on the WotC forums seem to be quite positive. I hope they decide to convert the whole GDQ series.

It's implied in the LG gazeteer that the schism within the Scarlet Brotherhood that leads to civil war in the Hold of the Sea Princes involves the Black Brotherhood. The BB features in some of the LG ...

I take it back, the Kara-Tur Hordelands Nomad theme is more suitable to Baklunish nomads, including mounted bow combat. Maybe the other theme is more suited to Stoneholders.

Yes that's true. Generally, random weather should just be used to add flavour and affect wilderness travel times.

In 4e, plopping terrain features into combat encounters is much more important t ...

I liked them but it was a real pain to try and map out wilderness adventures in advance and they are too complex to use on the fly. I liked the online weather forecaster scroll but that seems to be n ...

I own pretty much all the boxed sets and supplements (including the booklet that was reprinted in the first boxed set) and most of the modules. The only pdfs I have are Patriots of Ulek which I paid ...

I've always wanted some proper wandering monster tables for various locations, building on the original ones in the Greyhawk supplements, which only had early 1e monsters listed There are so many sma ...

I can provide some rough timeline information for the countries I have reviewed to date. It's also possible that some of the triads kept their own timeline documents for the individual regions. I ca ...

More generally, I have something of a dilemma about the degree to which I should take it upon myself to edit the information to something that I find more acceptable or if I should just list the infor ...

Crumbs I'd forgotten just how restrictive the earlier editions were! Rangers had to give away any money they couldn't carry too. Still, the restrictions of paladins were rarely adhered to in their e ...

Lol - well a paladin and a thief would not hang out with each other unless perhaps they liked each others' company? Perhaps the paladin wanted to show the thief a better way to live? Perhaps he hope ...

Lydia is NG so a worshipper of hers can be one step away from Neutral and one step away from Good. There is nothing absolutely wrong with the thief being CN and still worhipping Lydia but the alignme ...

I'm wading through the modules, picking out names of people and places, paragraphs of descriptions, and notes on the ongoing timeline. It's very time consuming. I do miss the online weather forecast ...

Anna,

If you say Paul is working on his divine status it must be true. Perhaps you can sponsor him. Shocked

Later

Argon

Nothing short of razing Elmshire will grant me apotheosis. Volunt ...

If Keoland is your bag then there are various rival duelling academies.
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Where are these from, Paul?

I think they were meta-orgs from the Keoland LG group, although I might ...

Thaks Anna - because I kept as many maps as I could the document was huge so I had to split it into two but I'm now trying to make it easier for you to spot the location headers in amongst the 500 pag ...

If it looks like Tenser, lives like Tenser, and has the same stats as Tenser, it's Tenser.

I haven't read the modules yet so i don't know if there is a specific character named but options could include Eligos the sage from Greyhawk or Allustan Neff from Diamond Lake both of whom appear in ...

If Keoland is your bag then there are various rival duelling academies.

The Keoland Duelling Society: This society holds an unmatched degree of respect among the highest levels of Keoish society: t ...

Well, the reason why I want my pc progression to be slow is precisely because I want them to meet more 'classic' villains at the appropriate levels even if under 4e that isn't strictly necessary.

I ...

4e may have its faults but it is very simple to adjust monsters to suit your PCs. If you want Eli to be a challenge for a level 13 group, just adjust his level down. You probably only have to make a ...

I think Aerdy has a couple of LG regions although the Adri is in German so that will be quite a task to translate and I was planning to leave it to last. If anybody else wants to volunteer to gather ...

No, we play once a week roughly, although not always with the same characters. I have always divided standard Xp by three so that I can hand out extra xp for role-playing so the progression has been ...

Anna, I'm hoping to have the bulk of the LG County of Urnst notes done by the end of this week. The official LG map isn't bad actually and seems to have most key locations on it, depending on whether ...

The thing I liked most about Dragonlance was the pre-rolled characters! They produced a Raistlin build a while back but I'd like to see them do the others too. In 4E the classes are so balanced it w ...

Nerull is also alive and slaying in my campaign.

I think 4E edition took a while to recapture the D&D flavour but with the recent push to introduce themes independent of class and the final introduction of some flavourful non-cookie-cutter magic ...

I think the problem might be that a person rendered invisible would soon be visible again. An object rendered invisible would remain forever invisible and that is an effect that was reserved for a hi ...

True and that also ends with death threats, recriminations, and rioting on the streets! Shocked

Kings' courts will always have magicians, often very powerful ones and those magicians will have apprentices who will be charged with scrying, spying, and using summoned beasties to carry messages. ...

I dunno - in previous editions powerful wizards would run out of spells pretty damn quickly. Most high level wizard villains I rolled up were creamed in a few rounds by my PCs, although that might ha ...

The DMGII Saltmarsh is a bit too 3e for my tastes and some of the temples feel wrong because they are based solely on core material rather than Greyhawk. I stuck with the original version as amended ...

There's an article up on WotC today with some vague background on Vecna and Kas, including the tale on how and why he became a demi-god. At least the Flanaess gets a mention, even if the article is d ...

As has always been the way, I'm finding that mixing and matching works best in your home campaign. I've poached events from LG and played them earlier in the timeline (trying to avoid major historica ...

Well, it isn't that odd in itself, it just looks a bit odd when compared to Furyondy which is a larger nation with far fewer nobles of count status. The hierarchy of WoG nobility is pretty fuzzy anyw ...

Found this:

Bohdon Earl Lyndon Bohdon
Sharn Earl Simen Sharn
Sharn Regent Natan Enarick
Arbas Count Landon Arbas
Bladehone Count Garridan Bladehone
Danjor Earl Reynald Danjor
Deleven Countess ...

It's my intention to dig through the modules, although they are letter S and I'm only on letter C for County of Urnst at the moment. You might also find information on local rulers in some of the Met ...

I think I'll hold out for the raccoons' 4E stats before I use them in my campaign.

That's an interesting history for poor ol one eye. Although I meant that, while Vecna had secret worshippers, h ...

It's certainly possible that the splinter sect grew up because the leaders of the cult used to hand and eye as tools for the greater glory of Pholtus - as I said before, Vecna's religion was not recon ...

I'm trying to go through all the LG mods and extract fluff that can be used as general background for a Greyhawk campaign so I'm working with Anna to help add any locations I come across onto her maps ...

I've read the Dimre adventures - the Ebongleam religion is LN but has no qualms walking hand in hand with evil. There are evil sub-cults within the sect. Here are some extracts from the modules:

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Actually it's a strongly Lawful Neutral version of Pholtus' religion (Pholtus himself is LG(LN) I think). Still, we mustn't forget that Vecna was an arch lich, not a deity (that came later). There i ...

I like the old man Iuz sketch too although add my vote for a bit more clothing than the loincloth. Personally, I don't have a major issue with him having slightly demonic ears but more human ears wor ...

Yeah baby - that's about as fat as I imagined him! Evil Grin

Avoiding nipples is fine by me. I'm still traumatised by Citadel's troll figures from the early eighties, especially as my brother painte ...

Chaoticprime, I had a quick look at your website - it says all the figures are out of stock though! What's the best way to order an Iqqwilv? I was quite tempted by some of the others too - are any o ...

Lol - damn you - sarcasm doesn't travel well on the Internet!

I could tell that you were frustrated by the various contradictory comments after having gone to the trouble to get some concept art ...

Nooooooooooo! Damn the nerds and their (or should that be our) obsession with minor details. I suppose the margins for interpretation are much narrower when it comes to simple human(oid) figures.
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As for the wizened human one, no one mentions Vince Locke's rendition on the LGG?

Yeah that illustration isn't too bad, although he looks like he's in his PJs. Put him in a hooded cloak and he'd ...

I am not disheartened, I just got it wrong. The spitting on people thing struck me as unlikely from my rendition

My problem is that apparently all the published descriptions of Iuz are incorrect a ...

Awww, don't be disheartened! You will never please all of the people all of the time! I like the demonic form, although I imagined him as being a bit fatter! I think he wields a greatsword too but ...

Has anybody seen the Microsoft Suface Dungeons and dragons demo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94E3IeBquY

It would be awesome to see Anna's maps loaded onto one of those beauties. Other than ...

The new theme in the Iron Wolf Barabarian article is a good example of how Greyhawk flavour could be brought into 4E. It seems to be a more effective method than Paragon Paths beause there is more fo ...

I think Thornward featured as part of some Bissel LG and Ket LG modules as it was a neutral city for quite a while. Then I think it fell to the forces of Evard for a while. I haven't stumbled across ...

Fantastic work Anna - I can't keep up at the moment; I have been wasting my time on the final part of my cheesy Star Trek comic-book style story on Youtube, which I should finish Monday or Tuesday nex ...

I'm wading through the LG mods trying to dig up as much information as I can. Sometimes, a place will just be mentioned as a stop off on the way to somewhere else or other times there will be no info ...

Cool! I'm finding that the best way to convert the old edition encounters is to have at least 2 variations on the standard monster i.e. give them slightly different powers that are capable of working ...

Try downloading the pdfs of Anna's maps. Personally I love to have as much info as possible but the pdf versions used to have layers that you could turn off. Alternatively download a jpg and just us ...

I've been plugging away at a gazeteer since 2e. LG modules multiplied the amount of information massively. I'd be happy for the information to make its way into a pdf or wiki but I think that becaus ...

The LG Triads plot cast Skotti in a different light. Keoland is a sort of hybrid constitutional monarchy where the Court of the Land appoints a male successor that need not be related to the previous ...

I think that, since they are not generally available for sale hosting them is a low risk endeavour. Just give credit to the authors and post a general notice to any authors unhappy that their work is ...

We have 3 groups in different locations so the weather forecaster was cool for keeping track of each group in relation to each other while adding a bit of flavour from the weather.

With keeping u ...

Arrrgh - I've just wasted half an hour trying to find a functional weathre generator. The Scroll of Forecasting seems be offline and the excel version seems to require a toolpak I don't have. Please ...

My major house rules were limitations on the availablility of magic and on raising the dead.

I was rather disturbed by the LG tendency to plop wizard universities in every major town and I grind ...

Lareth became quite a fun recurring villain in our campaign. I've always liked Blackthorn (Markessa's henchman from the slavers modules). My version became a half-demon ogre mage sorcerer who acts a ...

I'm trying to find as many of the old LG modules as possible to help with Anna's maps and maybe draw up an integrated edition neutral gazeteer. I've managed to find quite a few but as I'm going throu ...

Wow - and the six-fingered guy looks familiar too... that's a pretty good collection of classic demons in there. I'd better start saving. I think Iuz and Iggwilv are more of a priority though.

Enough Xp to make the Raven Queen a greater god herself. Her true identity isn't known. Maybe it will be my character that kills him.

And of course the Baklunish and some Flan tribes revere their ancestors. Maybe each household associates an acestor spirit with guardianship of the dead, similar to Roman household gods.

I will definitely buy one - Iggwilv will form part of my 20+ year campaign. Just need Iuz, Vecna, Dragotha, Kyuss, Hextor, and Demogorgan and I'm set. I think they made a plastic Orcus and Demogorga ...

Yes that's how I view the two death gods. Nerull has the aspect of 'Father Winter' in the Old Faith. He needn't be evil and 4E does have instances of gods having aspects with different alignments (o ...

Kyuss was a cleric. Vecna, Zagyg, and Iggwilv sound like a good top 3. Wasn't there a powerful mage on the Lendore Isles (may actually be Lendor) - I think he should be up there. And of course the ...

Ok - I found one nestled at the back of GEOI5-05 Stormbreak. Not a huge amount of detail but enough for my purposes! Mwa ha haaa.

I'm amalgamating some themes from the old Living Greyhawk years for my home campaign. Essentially, the heroes will have to sneak through the Stark Mounds, avoiding the Sword Wraiths, giants, and trol ...