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Hi all,

Long time since I posted here, but I figure I need this level of scholarship for the question I have.

Based on the Gord Books, what quarter(s)/district(s) would you think Uskbarrel Road ...

Dark Lord Galen, you are due for rewards! I tried contacting you privately by e-mail, but have not had a response from you yet.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hurry before Yak-Men steal your rewards!

Hey all,

That's right -- if you're a fan of the Castle Greyhawk webcomic, you can still read it here - http://castlegreyhawk.blogspot.com/. But if you want to support it, you can visit us here - ht ...

Haha! I was this close to using the tag line: "Rasgon will correct me in ...3...2...1..."

~Scott " Laughing

" Casper

Hi yet again!

I ignored the Black Bubble of Istivin because I never liked it...

-I accept it, even if my first notice of it was in one of Rose Estes' Mika novels... Laughing

Yeah, I see your poi ...

Hi again!

BTW, didn't you moderate over at Dragonsfoot, among other things?

There are many things you could have pointed to and asked "Did you do that?" and been right, but Dragonsfoot moder ...

I ignored the Black Bubble of Istivin because I never liked it.

I always wanted to do more with that Black Bubble. But then, I wanted to base it on this Fantastic Four story - http://www.comics.or ...

...at keeping everyone updated on fresh posts. But if you were waiting for us to keep you updated here, you've fallen way behind! Our newest page is http://castlegreyhawk.blogspot.com/2014/07/ch-2-pag ...

I had used that same map for Hexpools, from the same book, without even realizing it was the same map borrowed for Verbobonc online.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men only visit the forums when ...

The lack of gunpowder. But, really, that was mainly because I couldn't wrap my head around a nautical adventure without canons employed in ship-to-ship combat.

Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men ...

Hi all,

Yrag, look out!
http://castlegreyhawk.blogspot.com/2013/02/page-28.html

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Even Yak-Men are covering their eyes until this fight is over!

How can you hate a dryad? Even if you miss your save and wind up in a tree with her for the rest of time...what a way to go.

Much better than the situation Tenser & Gang have found themselves ...

Hi again,

Tenser is the Charlie Brown of murderous adventurers.
http://castlegreyhawk.blogspot.com/2013/01/page-26_23.html

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men like their comic strips dark and ...

Hi all,

I didn't know Mort was updating this thread all this time!

As to the question that got asked long ago: no, Yrag's house was not intended to be The Dead House. I hesitate to explain mo ...

Hi all,

Rob tracked me down on Facebook and pulled me into this to explain the discrepancy between 300 years and 500 years in my timeline for Queen Ehlissa. This span of time was left in there for ...

...not. I've never done any work with the Lortmils. Hopefully someone who was more involved with Living Verbobonc or Living Veluna will see this and respond.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Never go ...

Hi yet again,

I also love/loved using the insanity table and the dungeon dressing lists. I must add to the list costs for training -- a rule from the DMG I used for years and years! I also think ...

Hi again,

Favorite: S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (though, oddly, I haven't run it in years! Too sacred for me...?)

Least Favorite: Gargoyles (some read worse, but I can say this one plays poo ...

I always ignored the helmet rule and never knew anyone who used it, even when we were all running AD&D back in the day. It just seemed to run contrary to the rest of the combat rules.

My favor ...

It took long enough, but I've finally been plagiarized!

Those sub-races of dwur were first detailed here: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=49

~Scott "-e ...

Hi all,

The newest page of Mort's gorgeous comic art is here - http://castlegreyhawk.blogspot.com/2012/04/page-7.html

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Because Yak-Men are such shills...

Hi yet again,

In the South Province Campaign, I included the Gods of Pegana as the previous generation of gods, of which Tharizdun was one of and most of the current gods were descended directly fr ...

Hi again,

I was once writing an adventure about a kuo-toan lair under the Wild Coast, but never finished it. Rob Kuntz and I were going to write that and it was going to be called "The Well of Wat ...

I remember running that! I love Rasgon's slaad idea, especially since the slaad featured so heavily in my campaign as well.

I remember -- though I have no idea who wrote it -- some fanfiction ab ...

Hi again,

Is the question, who are your favorite friends and foes as a DM, or who would be your favorites, if you lived in Greyhawk?

As a DM, my answer is - friend: Tenser, foe: Eneever Zig
...

Hi all,

Not much to contribute here except to say that my campaigns have never strayed off the Prime Material except for brief forays into the Ethereal Plane and demi-planes.

Perhaps because o ...

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Oerth had no complete map until 1997 and Dragon Annual #1, wherein Skip Williams claimed to be revealing a lost map of Oerth. Many have doubted its authenticity, including Gary Gygax him ...

Hi all,

>LOL! I haven't seen a good Yak-men line in quite some time. Yaks....in....SPACE!<

That just screams out for some W.O.G. goodness...

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Because there ...

Hi yet again,

>I first decided that I was going to fully commit to this project in late December and was, at that time, considering an early March release. That, in hindsight, was not only fooli ...

Hi all,

The majority of my gaming collection is paper copy and always will be. And this coming from an E-book publisher (hobby-level). Occasionally I'll print out something new, but they tend to ...

Hi all,

>I thought of using an Illithid ship or maybe a beholder or a combination of the two. I would want the Illithid not to be the main antagonist behind everything, something more sinister.& ...

Then who is Sherman?

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Bullwinkle is 2nd cousin to a Yak-Man...

Because Cyndor was the intermediate deity before there was an intermediate deity category. Because he's an enigma that doesn't fit in with any pantheon. He's the outsider with all the answers that o ...

I agree with Rasgon that this is only the current generation of gods. I had made references to the Gods of Pegana being the previous generation in my last campaign.

What, though, of Basiliv, the M ...

Beory, Pelor, Rao, Zilchus, Cyndor, Wee Jas, Celestian, Delleb, Ehlonna, Fharlaghn, Gesthai, Heironeous, Hextor, Pholtus, and Zagyg -- and I didn't even think about quasi-deities! As for why those, I ...

The archives have not been up for about as long as Canonfire has been around. The far-from complete Greytalk Archive blog is still available, though, here -- http://greytalkarchives.blogspot.com/

...

I wish I'd been back to W.O.G. to see this contest going on sooner! Well, congrats, Mort, you made something interesting enough happen to get me to come back and post on Canonfire again!

This got ...

I laughed out loud at Bubbagump. On the public desk at work, no less!

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi all,

In Hackmaster, their versions of modules B1 and B2 are linked much more closely than the original versions, though some sort of link was often assumed with the original versions.

Module ...

Wow...I thought for sure you must have been fudging some of those terms as I read it, but it looks like you just really did your homework! Funny too; it reminds me of how my ex-wife must have felt wh ...

Hi all,

>And btw, your Castle Greyhawk fiction has inspired me to do some GH fiction writing. Have you been writing anything else lately?<

As I shared on Greytalk recently, I have been too ...

Hi again,

>He's also an NPC in one of the TSR collector cards iirc. ...or rather the art was used for it.<

I was always sure that Easley wizard was meant to be the Ringlerun action figure ...

Hi all,

Just wondering how soon you're getting to "my" neck of the woods and South Province, Anna?

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

I would have voted for Chaotic Good (Chaos is bad, so you're not really Good, but just misguided into thinking you are), but I'm too late...

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Aha! You post first, and t ...

Hi all,

The Greytalk Archives blog now has 100 posts from yesteryear! That includes Tom Hildrich's NPC dragons, Rip Van Wormer's thoughts on gods and their access to the Prime Material Plane, and ...

Temple of the Frog's first appearance in print was in Supplement II: Blackmoor. It was later expanded as a standalone module in the DA series.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi all,

http://scottenkainenland.blogspot.com/2008/11/overview-of-blackmoor-greyhawk-version.html

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi all,

I believe that any reference to The Muppet show is a good reference. Keep up the "Gods in Spaace!" story!

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi all,

I thought Kim Mohan's time as editor was near-universally recognized as Dragon's golden age. My first Dragon was #72. From there through #111, the magazine was almost pure gold, In My Opi ...

Hi again (continuing the thread hijack),

Smillan wrote:
>Yeah WoW is the major competitor and no doubt has a much bigger audience than D&D, but I've talked to plenty of teens at the various ...

Where in Chicagoland (private message if you wish to protect your secrecy)?

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper (far west suburbs)

Hi all,

After 7 weeks, the Greytalk Archive blog now has 50 recovered posts -- as much as the Greytalk listserv once had in one day in its heydey -- representing the first six years of the listserv ...

http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=920

This is nice -- nice enough to make me want to read some of the other articles about Salinmoor!

Of particular int ...

This is just not where you'll find it. Greytalk had a rich history of fanfiction, much of which used to be archived at Tracy Johnson's website (which seems to be down just now).

Fanfiction.net i ...

Hi all,

For those who have missed the Greytalk announcements, the Greytalk Archives are back -- kind of. Frustrated with waiting for anyone else to do anything, I started a blog that now has 20 cl ...

I think this was therapeutic after giving up on wading through the Simarillion, but I would love to hear what other people think too.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi all,

Not that this seems to be an actual poll anymore, but I had always used wandering encounter charts; in my last campaign with just two charts for overland travel through all of South Provinc ...

It seems to me that Vecna, described this way, is the anti-Delleb, dedicated to knowledge in the pursuit of evil as Delleb is dedicated to knowledge in the pursuit of good. Is there no specific rival ...

Actually, I figured calling it naughty might get your site more traffic...

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men read _The Naughty Adventures of Greyhawk_ all the time...

I was just thinking back on the last time I ran B1. I've read elsewhere complaints about the cheesy map, but my player at the time loved mapping the upper level; particularly, he liked how the layout ...

That one's naughty!

Happy

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men are very naughty...

The PCs ran afoul of slaadi passing themselves off as gods to the dark stalkers living under the Hollow Highlands. The slaadi -- or more specifically, the slaadi being led by one ambitious grey slaad ...

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkrisk/GCR-index.htm

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men don't even know what risk is!

There is an NPC reincarnated as a lizard man in there. I don't recall what the tattoo thing would be...

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men have their copy in storage...

Post away! Some of that material might prove useful for my upcoming Blackmoor campaign...

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men have mind-controlled ALL the Wolf Nomads. Did you write about that.. ...

Hi all,

This is some pretty stuff! Wow, you even put cobwebs in the arrow slits! The maps themselves are fairly edition-neutral, so you didn't have to post them here to this under-observed forum, ...

Hi all,

Also see http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2222

Asking for favorite modules and favorite AD&D modules is basically the same thing in most c ...

...Although I've seen you back on Greytalk, where we both belong! Seems like potato crossbows don't go over too well on these new-fangled messageboards, but we sure love them via e-mail!

~Scott "- ...

Assassinate Ivid in eight sessions or less? Sounds impossible, unless they're high-level (11+?) PCs. Maybe you'll want to take the tact of the subject line -- have the PCs deal with rival assassinat ...

Thanks, other Scott. Love that positive feedback!

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men only wear gnome hats to birthday parties...

http://www.canonfire.com/cf//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=823&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

I don't understand about the banning of Heironeous' worship, particularly in ...

So true, so true...

Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Hi again,

I still haven't had time to finish the whole article, but what I read here about changing "Pandora's Box" to "Ralishaz's Sack" was a nice save, turning real world myth into new Greyhawk c ...

Hi all,

>I still don't see procan as the image problem especially given he is the chief oeridian sea god.<

Chief sea god of a people embarassed by what they've done at sea?

>As for ...

Thank you, both. Steading of the Ogre Chief is so unabashedly stolen from module G1 that it hardly deserves inclusion...

>You, judicious reader, must decide… but remember that many lives have been lost gathering, transcribing, and diffusing this lore over the ages, as certain parties would prefer to see all reference ...

I just discovered this forum! Thanks, Crag!

>The piece does mention the use of pegasus by the military; this seems >to be out of place in the (LE) disciplined but brutal army, might I >su ...

I prefer the gentle simplicity and realism of vol. 2, issues 16 and 17.

A sub-section of the Trid web site is the D&D Monster Repository. I've been contributing mostly giant animals and fairy monsters there so far, but see the Black Ice Bear for a Greyhawk-specific e ...

I recommend the cover of Dragon #72 for female cavaliers.

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Yak-Men love the female cavaliers...

Hi all,

Thanks, Other Scott. I didn't think I had pulled that number out of my butt, but I could not recall where I would have read that. Since I used to frequent the PPP boards much more, it sur ...

Hi again,

Are you having trouble making nice-nice again, Rich?

I'm at least pleased to learn that the adventure is largely castle-oriented. Mr. Mona has not said so, but I would guess that th ...

Hi all,

It's been awhile since I read my copy. Does it refer to 579 specifically as when Robilar & Co. sacked the temple? That seems like fudged numbering to me. Weren't we to assume that th ...

Hi again,

What I'm reminded of is Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, where the original dungeon is only touched on and then flies off in a completely different direction. Hopefully these wors ...

Hi all,

The temple was originally sacked by Robilar & Co. circa 575 CY. There is no reason to assume the temple has to have been sacked a second time yet, unless you plan on running Return to ...

Hi again,

#19 is not listed as available on the following page: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2

~Scott "-enkainen" Casper

Because Yak-Men check ...

Hi all,

I was looking at the Oerth Journals today and...as much as I love seeing my name in print, I caught the glaring error of me being credited with Andrew Seale's article on the cover at http:/ ...

Hi again,

Greyhawk's published version reached its apex from 1979 to 1985. The publications of T1, the Village of Hommlet and T1-4, Temple of Elemental Evil make convenient bookends for this perio ...

Hi all,

I have worked on compiling a "best modules ever" list. It's a top 50 list so far, only good through 1992, and is available for viewing at http://kinazar.com/SouthProv/viewtopic.php?t=35. ...

Hi again,

"Eldiel" wrote:
>I see UR as a future (but distant) guide for my PCs through epic and divine powers... <[snipped]

Just to warn you, if I used an NPC named Ur in my campaign, I ...

Hi all,

I can't decide if the design of the chair or the use of "git" is the bigger anachronism, but no one can blame you for needing a week off. You are the hardest working cartoonist in Greyhawk ...

Hi again,

It made sense to me that a hilly region just outside a Romanesque Great Kingdom would be analogous to the Balkans. And I once asked Gygax at GenCon if he thought South Province would be c ...

Hi all,

If the Greytalk Archives were still up, you could read an old timelne I once did asserting that the gods are just one generation of a race fantastically old, with Istus and Tharizdun being ...

Hi again,

If the Greytalk archives were up, you could read Russ Taylor's old defense of Kenzer's Greyhawk comics and their treatment of Rel Astra in the first mini-series. Our argument boiled down ...

Does the Book of Plots have a table of contents or index, or does the book allow the reader to find desired pages? With billions of pages, I wouldn't think even Asmodeus would have time to read it al ...

Hi all,

I would have said the Lendore Isles would make a good Greece analogy, but that suffers if you treat the elves evicting the humans from it as canonical.

South Province is slavic.

Sco ...

Hi all,

The idea of giant mech/artifacts in Greyhawk is probably much more palatable to those of us who grew up watching Voltron or Robotech at the same time as they were learning D&D. Back in ...

Hi yet again,

Jason Cone, who I gather is working with Rob Kuntz, gathered that file from me and said they might do something with it, but I have yet to hear more about it.

~Scott "-enkainen" Ca ...

Hi again,

"Grimm" wrote:
>1. Gygax's original Greyhawk campaign was set on a fantasy Earth. Greyhawk actually set where Chicago does in the real world. The maps and all were redone for the publ ...

this as a good rule of thumb? PCs of 5th level or higher are well-connected enough that they could know or find out that some of the oligarchs have shady side businesses without the details. PCs of ...