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Awesome work!!! Love both the song and the video.

At first, I thought the rhythm guitar was a tad too bluesy for my taste, but everything comes together really well with that Led Zep middle eastern ...

I've noticed that a couple of the Dungeon adventures listed don't have specific locations mentioned so I was wondering how their locations on the map were reached?

For example, Evil Unearthed i ...

I'm 47 and have been GMing games set in Greyhawk on and off since 1987 or so (the first campaign setting I ran a few years prior to that was the Known World/Mystara, since I first played through all o ...

I recall that Thiondar's Legacy, from Dungeon Magazine #30, included a history of the Grey Elves and their founding, which was a separating from the High Elves. Though it wasn't set in Greyhawk, spec ...

Thanks for the shout-out to my blog Twiceborn. Smile

I would point out that the TSR Blackmoor adventure Temple of the Frog is already on the map.

My pleasure! I only "discovered" your blog ye ...

In the 3.5 module Red Hand of Doom, James Jacobs writes:

"For those of you who play in the Greyhawk campaign setting, we recommend placing Elsir Vale in the borderlands between Sterich, Geoff, and ...

That's great!

Any chance that you'll also be adding Axe of the Dwarvish Lords and Return of the Pick-Axe in the near future (see my previous post)?

Thanks again for all your work, Rich!

Ive a local copy for the map from Canonfire (originally linked from http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=512), im sending it to you by PM.

Sergio :-)

Woul ...

I agree with the removal of universal literacy, and would add that not all would be fluent or even proficient with the "Common" tongue used by merchants, the well-traveled, scholars/priests, and the u ...

Great job!!!

Now it's got me questioning whether I should be prepping a ToEE campaign instead of Saltmarsh (which I'm currently working on) for post-COVID times!

Cool.

Then yeah, if you're aiming to do your own music and melody, then that would be of interest... in the longer term for me, anyway. I've been out of work for a long time and have no D&D/Gre ...

Stylin LP38:

The lyrics to the Battle of Emridy Meadows ballad are great, as is the execution by the guitarist/singer.

That said, I would be concerned about the blatant copyright violation of Go ...

I've got one more, Longetalos: Axe of the Dwarvish Lords https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17283/Axe-of-the-Dwarvish-Lords-2e

According to the module:

"Within the Flanaess, the area near the ...

What a great resource! Thank you so much, Longetalos!

Off the top of my head, here are a few scenarios I noticed were missing from the map, in case you are able/willing to add them:

. L3 - Deep ...

Thanks for your hard work and for sharing, Longetalos, I find this very useful.

The most surprising finding is that... most countries in the Flanaess have a lower population density than Canada (wh ...

Flint, Rasgon,

Thanks for the tips/info.

That's a good start!

Thanks for your help, smilan_31!

Does anyone know of a comprehensive index to Greyhawk-related articles in post-Paizo Dungeon and Dragon mags?

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

While it's not canon, it's worth noting that some sources have indicated that even some of the "common" deities are known by culture-specific alternate names in certain regions.

For example, acco ...

How about this?

http://www.ritepublishing.com/breakingofforstornagar.html

According to Amazon, the books should be released May 21, 2013: http://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=advanced+dungeons+and+dragons+2nd+edition&spref ...

It is worth noting that the slave lords compilation will also include A0 "Danger at Darkshelf Quarry."

Reposted from [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf//modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5254] this thread.

This news doesn't seem to have gotten much attention from the community, so I tho ...

With a nick like Twiceborn, I figured you would have read the second book by now.

Oh and like Cebrion said. DO IT... DO IT... Come on Twiceborn, you can DO IT... Wink

Later

Argon

I'm w ...

I hope he doesn't end up needing this sort of set-up...

http://media.weirdworm.com/img/misc/7-weird-movie-scenes/clockwork-orange.jpg

...but somebody start up Beethoven's Ninth Symphony just in ...

I read it for the first time last year. I found it a very painful read, one of the worst books I've ever read, but somehow I made it to the end. That's all a matter of taste, of course...

I have th ...

No option for Pathfinder? Neutral

I was happy to advance through the editions until 4e stopped me cold. I really liked every earlier edition, though, especially 3.5. However, once I began playin ...

The Apocalypse Stone isn't that old. I think it was 2nd Ed., though it may have been late AD&D.

The premiss of the adventure was that the DM and the players were all ready to retire their ...

[url=http://paizo.com/products/btpy8q8e?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-One-Knot-of-Thorns]This adventure path might provide a good model for parties of cooperative evil PCs. I must admit that I do not own it ...

Sample these two CDs by Dronolan Tower (orchestral music composed specifically as soundtracks for tabletop RPGs by a gamer... and recorded with a real orchestra!):

http://www.myspace.com/dronolan
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12 out of 22... not great, but decent...

Heh... instead of performance enhancing drugs, the authorities may need to police illegal performance enhancing magic. I can imagine there would be fairly strict rules with regards to the type of mag ...

There are several books mentioned in Dragon #253, and various other issues list books from time to time, but the best list I've seen is in the article "Spells Between the Covers" in Dragon #82. I seem ...

Lastly, who is Felnorith? Gord's Greyhawk states that he is an elf but I am sure that I read somewhere that he was a human warrior with a noted collection of magical blades. Also, wasn't there a nas ...

"Dude, you can't have my Bud Light."

You drink that swill???!!! Sorry, no manly love reflected back at you... Laughing

There is also a tiny bit of information in the Alderweg series (UK2 & UK3) two of my personal favorites. I've run both of them numerous times and well probably be running them again soon actually ...

Currently playing Andolphas Hecker of Diamond Lake, 2nd level cleric of Wee Jas, in a Whispering Cairn play by post. Hopefully that gets me somewhat back in the good books on this site, after mentioni ...

My sincere apologies for the unintentional derailment. Didn't think it would go as far as it did. Now back to our regular program, on maps...

The greater heresy may be that, for the time being, I have made FFG's Midnight my primary campaign setting, over Greyhawk... [Raises shield and prepares to deflect barrage of missiles]...

Awesome stuff there, Twiceborn -- thanks for the link! Happy

My pleasure! And lest anyone think that I made the moathouse maps on danielrivera.org, let us be clear -- neither the maps nor the web ...

Aw man, that really sucks.

I'm not sure what your maps of T 1-4 looked like, but here are some pretty awesome maps of the Moathouse made with Dundjinni:

http://danielrivera.org/index.php?option= ...

personally
Granted, the actual paper I wrote on river traffic is much, much longer than this and I wrote several other articles about the actions of the thieves guild and river pirates that were als ...

This issue of Dungeon should have what you are looking for (a backdrop article on Exag):

http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/issues/2007/145&source=search

The issue also featured an adventure ...

Excellent article, Rasgon... you may want to provide a link for it on the message boards at www.fraternityofshadows.com for those fine Ravenloft fans who don't frequent Canonfire on a regular basis. I ...

I'm inclined to say loe-KA-thuh... (KA as in CAmel).

The intro to The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth actually takes place in Bissel (if you accept the railroaded intro, where the players are gathered before the Margrave of Bissel and are instantly assumed to ...

I used to have the complete series. Although I wouldn't consider the books high quality by any means, they certainly bring back a certain nostalgia... I now regret having sold that collection to a sec ...

You might find the second edition AD&D product "Iuz the Evil" helpful for fleshing out the Bandit Kingdoms (the BK were, for the most part, swallowed up by the empire of Iuz during the Greyhawk Wa ...

I don't have the original Keep of the Borderlands, but I do have the Return to the Keep of the Borderlands. No specific hex is listed but you can narrow the search down to either N5-133 or O5-133 ...

I don't recall stats for Tharizdun in Dragon or any other source. If there are stats, can we be directed as to where they would be. I'm not interested in using the stats but I do want to know why my ...

"The Adventure Begins" and Dragon Annual #4, if you can get your hands on them, have excellent info on the festivals and holidays of Greyhawk.

I would also add that I don't believe that deities should be aware of the actions/transgressions of every last one of their servants, especially those lower than "name" level (by first edition standar ...

This all sounds pretty good to me, but I'm left with one more question. Who exactly was granting the spells cast by the corrupted clerics of Merikka in the module? Surely not Merikka; even if she' ...

I must admit that I wasn't impressed by the generic campaign setting that came with the module, and even less with the story tying the three sites together.

For my own campaign, I've decided to tie ...

Hey, I stumbled across that Swedish site that Twiceborn mentioned above while I was looking for some stuff for Derfelca's Dwarven thread. Here's the url -

Thanks for posting that link, Smillan. I ...

There used to be a bunch of WoG creation myths on the web, but the websites seem to be defunct.

Eric Filson once had a creation myth for the Flan pantheon on the now defunct Greyhawk Codex website. ...

Thanks! Of course, I'm sure I missed a few things, as I don't own every 3x product out there. Also, it doesn't include Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, nor MMV, which has the God-blooded templa ...

Thanks, Cebrion.

Does the only official canon reference to the Malgari appear in LGJ #1, or are there others?

I, for one, really look forward to your article being posted!

Just wondering... does the name "Malgari" itself have any significance? Is it also the name of a (Suloise) house or family (it doesn't seem to be)? If not, then what might it mean (is it just a Sulois ...

http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=863&mode=&order=0&thold=0

Rob, fantastic work. I thought your overview of both D&D and the World of Greyha ...

As it ended up, we were captured and sown inside the bodies of our evicerated horses, to die a slow death by starvation inside their rotting corpses. Overall, they were very friendly chaps, just hav ...

Interesting find, Cebrion. I just checked the Wintershiven map in Fate of Istus, and no temples to Wee Jas are indicated thereon.

The AD&D 2nd ed Guide to Hell includes the description of a Furyondy-based organization called L'Ordre de la Croix Rose Veritas (the Order of the Rosy Cross of Truth), a Cuthbertine order dedicate ...

Points well taken, gentlemen, thanks for the feedback. I always feel the need to come up with a background for NPCs, especially villains, even if they may not play a major role in a longer term campai ...

That's awesome news! Thanks, Rick, the Canonfire crew, and Mr. Kuntz! Looking forward to it...

I also voted "other" (for all of the above) in the poll, but I have another reason for loving Greyhawk. While Greyhawk's canon inconsistencies used to be one of my pet peeves, I now find that the pseu ...

Very nicely written Twiceborn. I like how you used the "disappearance" of eastward migrating Oeridians to explain why the rest of that people stayed where they were in Ull. A novel explanation.
My on ...

The Little Oerid Migrations, http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=827&mode=thread&order=2&thold=0.

Gripping intro and well thought out connection t ...

Really well done, Twiceborn! Very nice adaptation of these generic modules into Greyhawk as well as your original historical material. Nicely cited and footnoted too.

Thanks, Smillan!

For those who care about such things, I had sent a revised version to the administrators , but the original (uncorrected) version of the article is the one that appeared on the website.

Here is a l ...

>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 ...

My questions are, how well to the ones you have cited fit in to the Southern Lorridges overall? Are there consistent maps, etc.? How do the other modules in the AP fit with the use of the ones you ...

According to the 3e Deities and Demigods, the deities of the D&D/Greyhawk pantheon (with the exception of Vecna, St. Cuthbert, and demigods) "were born with their divine power" (p. 12). So accordi ...

I was thumbing through the Ravenloft background on "The Rex" and noticed he's originally from Oerth (Knurl to be precise). I'm wondering, are there any other Ravenloft/Greyhawk crossovers? (And I'm to ...

I know that Vecna and Kas were supposed to have been "guests" of Ravenloft at one point in the module "Vecna Reborn".

The module "Die Vecna Die!" takes the characters from the Flanaess, to Vecna's ...

Q#1: Can anyone point me to a source I've missed?
Q#2: Anyone care to conjecture what the character of the land of Mur might be?

Dungeon #136, "The Coming Storm" by Greg Vaughan includes some ge ...

TB,
Just submit the revised document via email (editors@canonfire.com) and we'll make sure the changes get applied before your submission is published to the main page.

Sorry for the delayed respo ...

Dear Canonfire site administrators/article editors,

I apologize for posting this in the "WoG Discussion" forum, but since questions I posted nearly 6 weeks ago in the "Canonfire Help" forum have go ...

I think most villagers would crap themselves... I know I would, if something I knew to be dead was walking toward me! But then again, that's because IMC the average priest is a non-spell-casting commo ...

I agree with CSL, and with much of what Anced Math added. I DM a relatively low magic campaign set in GM in 575 CY, and IMC only those peasants who live near the Dim Forest or the Rushmoors have had ...

Generic Drow info i imagine..they've yet to do an underdark book for 3.5 yet to my knowledge, so probable some of that too.

And here's your link to the upcoming generic 3.5 Drow sourcebook... :smi ...

Wolgang Baur has the answer to your question in this thread:

http://paizo.com/dungeon/messageboards/generalDiscussion/expeditionToTheDemonwebPits

Aside from the title, it looks like the Greyhawk ...

Hi Anced Math,

Thanks for taking the time to read the first draft of my articles. As far as I'm concerned, they belong as much in "the heretic's nest" on this site as they do under "history"--I su ...

Hello,

About a month ago, I submitted an article titled "The Forgotten History of the Lorridges" to Canonfire! I have since realized that I would like to make a few relatively minor adjustments/co ...

So, there really aren’t more than two versions of this relationship- Len Lakofka’s and SKR’s. This change in relationship directly applies to the whole raising undead issue with regards to what is ...

Skech,

Paul Stromberg wrote some interesting creation myths for the Flan, Baklunish, Oeridian, and Suloise pantheons, which you can still download from this site...

http://www.geocities.com/Time ...

In any event, each different interpretation might serve as a great way of describing sects of Wee Jas' religion, where different aspects take precedence over the more common doctrinal canon among th ...

COOL!

I look forward to this article. I really like the idea of working in the Wotc Adventure Path stuff! This is something I think is long overdue. I haven't read the article and I alre ...

For my part, I am going to write a history of the GM. Smile

I am happy to work with any interested persons in crafting that history Happy

and as I don't figure to start writing in earnest unti ...

I cut and paste the one that's found on Wizard's Greyhawk forums. I'm not sure if that'll fit your needs, but anyhow...

I just uploaded a CF article submission. Of note, there are a total of 11 submissions in the que as of this date. FYI. Don't be bashful! Submit!

I uploaded one last night (my very first submiss ...

I just checked Dragon Annual #4, which includes holidays of the Flanaess, and it isn't in there. It isn't listed in the Zavodex, either...

Wow Kirt, thanks for sharing! I'm impressed, and looking forward to seeing the full publication in the OJ!

You're welcome, and hope it helped. You can look at the first installment about two OJ's ...

Here's an excerpt of the relevant part from my Keoland writings. This will eventually make its way into the OJ.

Wow Kirt, thanks for sharing! I'm impressed, and looking forward to seeing the f ...

If no explanation exists, whether in canon or fan-created articles... what do you think would be a logical explanation for the name? Simple appeasement of the Keogh population/nobles seems a bit weak. ...

Hi all,

Just wondering if one of you might be able to point me to a reference explaining how "Keoland" got its name (I've searched the forums, skimmed through many of Samwise's excellent articles, ...

A Player's Guide to Sasserine, eh? Dammit! I swore not to use my credit card again! Happy

Could who ever gets this first post a review here?

I wish I could make such an oath, and I would seco ...

Marshmen of the Rushmoors - are these a distinct group of just Gran Marcher reed farmers perhaps?

Wow, cool idea! And great list!

Where the marshmen of the Rushmoors are concerned, I view ...

Wow! Who would have thought that Calgary (my hometown) would make the top 10, and that it would have so few Eberron Googlers???!!! I'm kind of proud, actually... Happy

TwiceBorn... you've gotta sto ...

This is a link that has been posted here before, but the graph continues to be updated, and continues to fascinate me.

A fully supported world with massive advertising power thrown behind it, vs. a ...