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I was thinking that the WotC copywrite issue might be with the author/WotC agreements. I'd was thinking that if they rereleased a module and only changed the statblocks rather than doing a complete o ...

So far I've been pretty severely disappointed by WotC re-releases of classic scenarios. The Village of Hommlet was especially bad, failing utterly to keep any of the flavor text that made is a classi ...

The worst I've ever hit was 50 celsius (122 fahrenheit) living in Phoenix Arizona in 1990. It was so hot that the sidewalks would melt the bottom of tennis shoes.

The most extreame weather I've ev ...

It depends a lot on what you feel will work well for him.

The Temple of Elemental Evil series is iconic dungeon crawl and should be a good introduction to D&D for someone inexperienced in rol ...

Hmmm, I'm thinking starting with the statistics for a Tarrasque (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/tarrasque.htm) and change a few things... give it a breath weapon, no horn/gore attack, change the C ...

Urban Legand.

What we do know:

Wizards of the Coast is planning on featuring a different campaign world each year.

For 2010 it is the Dark Sun Setting.

There has not been any announcem ...

I was having a conversation with some gamers regarding this sort of thing and heard that with the new 4th edition monster builder (that you get with a WotC D&D insider subscription) converting dun ...

For Supplement materials:
1) The '83 box set
2) The City of Greyhawk Box Set
3) The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer
4) Iuz the Undying
5) Greyhawk Adventures
6) Oerth Journal

For ...

Okay...it was the remote lair of an evil bardic avatar of Tharizdun...bwahaha!

evil female gnomish bardic avatar of Tharizdun!

happy birthday!

Did you update your character sheet?

he led a very full life of adventure and was only 8th-10th level.

I think part of that is the setting and part the edition. With first edition ~9th level was your 'Name' level. At that point you ...

I have found that themes need to change as the game progresses in order to keep things fresh.

I'd definately agree with that. When I first started playing it was all about the hack and slash and w ...

In the ensuing years, this "all on one planet" theory grew and grew, 'til there was difficulty deciding how to fit the arctic regions together. long came Oerth, and Faerun, and Mystarra, Al'Qadim, an ...

When I first started playing we were using Harn as our game world. When the Greyhawk folio was published we really liked it and our DM decided (without telling us) to switch settings.

A perfect op ...

Firstly, a question about the dragon. The Living Greyhawk Gazetter clearly shows a black dragon for his mount. Did Mordenkainen piss off the silver in some way and it left his service? Or was it slain ...

Greyhawk was my original introduction to D&D back in the 80s. That campaign ran for over ten years starting out in first edition and when second edition came out we kind of hybridized the two rul ...

What we (the holders of the Greyhawk torch) REALLY need is a review database of LG mods. Which are the diamonds worth tracking down and bringing to light... which are the lumps of dirty coal best left ...

Len authored L1 The Secret of Bone Hill and L2 The Assassin's Knot and received credit for authoring L3 Deep Dwarven Delve.

He indicated on the Dragonsfoot forums that he wrote the adventure and su ...

It was in this [url=http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=2057&start=0]Thread here.

There was a question regarding the similarity in names between the god ...

But "Dungeon Master" sounds like you're some type of torturer... and the players must be punished.

Man, even looking at WotC products makes me feel like I'm walking through a swap meet with people screaming at me to buy their wares.

Flipping through the 4e DMG I noticed that miniatures and dunge ...

I found a list on EN World of the various monsters you could include:

The post is [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-monster-talk/215478-all-different-types-oozes.html]All the Different Type ...

I kind of wondered about a "Cult of Jubilex" a bit ago and came up with something you might use. I started pondering on how some of the more powerful oozes (like black puddings) gain sentience when t ...

Same thing for me "DM" or "GM" I'll use either.

I was going to mention the movie Labyrinth, especially for it's Escher scene. I would imagine that the gear could be found being used by the occupants of the citadel (stone guardians, golems, element ...

For 4th edition Greyhawk...

The races that remained fairly the same (half-elf, dwarf, elf, halfling, etc) I've just updated things as they were (elves still come predominately from Celene, Highfolk ...

Brian---make the dwarf nude, and give him some arm/leg/chest hair Happy

(and with a slight shift, you can use the hellhound's flame breath to hide his genitals too).

....chestnuts roasting on a ...

our party has decided to relax themselves in while all of their gear is layed in piles on rocks while they take a dip. I decided to have the bathing M-U leaning on a rock as the boulder is coming down ...

Two spells that I'd love to see, but I think would be very difficult if not just impossible to do in a picture:

Giant flings the rock and the Mage transmutes it to Mud in mid throw. The party is u ...

I'll put in my two cents...

Gord the Rogue books: not great writing but good to read for a greyhawk fan. Series started fairly decent but the writing got worse at the series progressed

Rose Est ...

I love the level of detail... things like the stitching in the clothing and the engraving on the bracers and ax. Beautiful!

Oh and....

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I have always liked the idea of psi but have never liked the implementation. Erik Mona's old "Baklundish Delights' gives a good roleplaying reason for psionics in the campaign but mechanically:

1s ...

Hmmm, nice. I like most of Goodman Games adventures. Even their later 3.5 edition stuff kept the "old school" feel.

I think that he really just lost it all in a premature delayed blast fireball detonation. Embarassed

Rather than admit he mistimed his spell he claimed it was intentional because he 'liked the look' ...

David Weber's Safehold series (very much like Horatio Hornblower with some SciFi blended in it).

Are you married as well? The best type of friend... one that won't steal your girl or your beer.

I would love more supplimental materials for Greyhawk. Things along the line of the 83 box set and the LGG that talk about the nations, their leaders and populations, the characteristics of the vario ...

Another issue to add to the mix is racial alignment tendencies, which also aren't hard and fast but probably have more to do with an individuals alignment than the region in which they live. Both cul ...

This might not be exactly what your looking for as its more other materials you might raid for ideas and alternative rules than Sea Baron area ideas, but look into Alderac Entertainment Group, Adamant ...

I believe that the detail in which a campaign setting is covered is a matter of style and there isn't a right way or a wrong way. Greyhawk has always had that minimalist approach that many fans love ...

I think the probability of a D&D movie is higher than ever before... With the success of LotR and Harry Potter producers are more willing to risk Fantasy movies than ever before. That being said, ...

I posted a comment on another thread about a memorable battle in which my players were having a hard time fighting an invisible foe. They finally managed to dispel the invisibility... only to discove ...

I am kind of curious about how they are going to do Dark Sun. I never had a group play on Athas but I had all the materials and it's an interesting campaign world... and brutal. In the original vers ...

The biggest possibility for rewind time for a reboot would be pre invoked devastation/rain of colorless fire. If WotC felt they couldn't do an edition conversion without a RSE then right there is one ...

So by 2012 (unless the Mayans are right)

Repent! Repent! The end of Greyhawk is coming!

Razz

One of my favorite monsters I used was invisible. The party was thrashing around trying to find what was attacking them and then finally managed to dispel the invisibility....

It was a Medusa.

...

I think that what WotC (or any other Gaming company) should do (or have done) is produce a good set of core rules and then leave them alone. Perhaps once a year or every other year publish an update ...

Hmmm,

Greyhawk was the main world of 1st edition... then almost nothing for second edition and then the main campaign again in 3rd edition... not enough data points but perhaps it will establish a ...

They will do Dominaria or Alara next (gods I hope I'm kidding).

The City of Flumph looks interesting! ;)

I hear the folks there are very bright ((wink-wink-nudge-nidge)) Laughing

Now I'll give you my answer to that question for myself

My main complaint with WotC's treatment of the introduction of 4e to the Forgotten Realms was the use of a "Realms Shattering Event" (RSE) to ...

With the announcement that Dark Sun is the 2010 campaign setting many fans, myself included, breathed a heart-felt sigh of relief that WotC wouldn't be dabbling their clumsy fingers into our beloved c ...

Over all I'd have to say I'm happy with WotC... Sure they are fun to complain about, but they have done a good job at keeping the game alive and thriving in the face of MMORPGs, CCGs, and console game ...

My main complaint against the new version is that is stripped the village of all the little things that didn't have anything to do with the adventure but gave the entire thing a personality. For exam ...

I thought the clinical term for fear of people was Demophobia.

Yes.... and no. Demophobia (and it's variant names) is a fear of people. But does that mean a fear of humans or a fear of people? W ...

I’ve had perhaps two dozen Greyhawk characters but the main four are:

My original greyhawk character (1st and 2nd edition)
Amberle Elesedale - 14th level half-elven Ranger from the Wild Coast

L ...

Whooo-hooo! Alright Lord Percard!

(Query: Since the players are human, is it possible for them to be xenophobic towards humans! Shocked

)

Hmmm, traditionally the greek or latin word f ...

I’ve played for most of my D&D ‘career’ in Greyhawk but mostly in two experiences. My introduction to D&D was with a group that played together for about eight years and then I dropped out of ...

Don't you mean "Oh the halflingity" ?

Hmmm, "Halflingity" that's a curiously hard to pronounce word.

The greater heresy may be that, for the time being, I have made FFG's Midnight my primary campaign setting, over Greyhawk...

While I'lll always love my Greyhawk I am big enough to admit that the M ...

Yup... what Bubba's never mentioned was that the whispering madness in his mind is actually.... Yodeling. Razz

I was probably the most overboard we ever got... and it was something that we built up to for a long time (tons of research into fighting dragons, research into how to brew potions of protection again ...

Oh, and remember the Lederhosen. Any picture of an evil halfling assassin of Tharizdun needs to have him in knee length suspendered leather short pants.

**shudders** - the madness, the madness ...

I had a particularly nasty DM when I first got into D&D in 1st edition. He was a great storyteller and had amazing plot arcs that lasted all through the eight years we played together, but he und ...

I like Bubba's idea.

Another would be to load them up. Let your players buy it all... and then have them run into a trap with a Disjunction on it or a good old first edition monster... the Disench ...

I agree with Raymond's original post that its probably a matter of Gary's game evolving. If I had a player having problems with it I'd probably explain it away as regional names and worship practices ...

This might not be exactly what your looking for as its more other materials you might raid for ideas and alternative rules than Azure sea ideas, but look into Alderac Entertainment Group, Adamant Ente ...

The only thing I can remember seeing is an older article here on Canonfire about the Jacinth of Inestimable Beauty that briefly mentions that the Shadow is a female half-drow, at least 16th level, and ...

The Saltmarsh Series (U1-3) might give you some material, especially for a swamp/sea border area.

Trollpyre Keep in southern Sunndi was the home of the death knight Sir Loran... a death knight mi ...

I've always played my monks with the Baklundish style from Erik's Baklundish Delights article that Rasgon has already mentioned.

You got me thinking and googling around though and I found [url=http ...

Hmmm... if it was as you describe, and Lynwerd & Sewardnt were magically drawing power for the fight from their supporters on the ground, what was the mechanism? This could go back to what I propo ...

And yet the banks remain open on Talk Like a Pirate Day. No respect. No respect at all.

I know... and they don't even give your withdrawals in doubloons, they still insist on that stupid paper stuf ...

Population was about 2,200 until it was attacked and burned to the ground in 588 by a horde of Rovers of the Barrens. It is slowly being rebuilt, depending on when your timeline is would influence ho ...

I think the key to any fight with the old one is that he wouldn't let it happen...

Iuz, being the lord of pain, wickedness, and deceit, as well as an extremely powerful and cunning creature, has th ...

I'm not sure which thread your referring to but it sounds a lot like a Living Greyhawk scenario... The Nyrond region had a major plot arc called the “Call to War” series of scenarios that cumulated in ...

I think it might actually work... if the party can get into the portable hole and close it from the inside the buellete would ram right into the ground where they had just been. Up comes the worm and ...

Interesting.

It sounds like you've based the idea off of the Cult of the Earth Dragon from Slavers! Is that correct? If so, is the secret society and the cult the same organization, different par ...

Actually Gygax wrote all 7 of the Gord books, of which only the first 2 were published by TSR though.

I thought Rose Estate wrote the majority of the Gord novels.

The WOTC website has a random tavern generator that I use occasionally when I'm not feeling creative myself. It produces the name, bartender, NPCs, rumors, and a pricelist

http://www.wizards.com/d ...

Just a warning Rossik....

Late spicy dinner + falling asleep while reading Cthulhu = the most disturbing dreams I think I've ever had.

Wink

You might consider making him a nice paragon of goodness. A protector of the innocent and the natural order of the Marshland...

But then he found Blackrazor and before he knew what he was dealing ...

Just saw the announcement that Elizabeth Moon is publishing some more books in her excellent Deeds of Pakanisan series that she wrote in the 80s.

The main character of the series is a female paladi ...

I'm particularly interested in Baklunish magic and have been rummaging for good spells out of the old Al'Quadim books.

One spell I've always thought would have a great Baklunish flavor (Istus and a ...

Its possible that it would develop like Eberron, with Technology and Magic working together.

Alternatively they could follow seperate but lateral evolutions... magic would develop slower since on ...

A little off topic but close...

Wizard with toad familiar (or other simular very small familiar). Give the familiar a Hand of the Mage (magic item that allows the wearer to cast mage hand at will) ...

Stone to Flesh: the arcane Create Food spell. An essay on its uses and limitations.

By Varthalon Fitz-Amanodel.

As with many arcane spells, Stone to Flesh has applications other than its primary ...

Or if they know she's been slayen throw in a nice twist of her being resurrected and re-undeaded (made that word up me-self) and back in residence.

Alternatively... a powerful illusionist has moved ...

I didn't really enjoy it from a player's point of view... either it killed you if the DM was playing it straight, or the DM had to pull punches and give you extra clues to steer you from danger, or so ...

Right off I can't think of any big ones, (unlike our University newspaper that put had a page 1 headline in 4 inch font that read "Regants Pontpone Building President's Mouse" (the issue was that they ...

the 3.x version of Dancing Lights has a "medium sized humanoid" option. Many was the time when my wizard, not wanting to use a spell that may be more useful later on but still wanting to be useful, s ...

I'd agree with Mort about Greyhawk city. In fact, one of the reasons I like the World of Greyhawk is that Greyhaek city is fairly well developed with some great flavor, but if I want to put my own fl ...

Probably the most comprehensive list I've seen is from the Living Greyhawk campaign and can be downloaded at:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/welcome

Under "Campaign Documents" look for ...

Predominantly 3x but with liberal use of 1e and 2e materials, particularly magic. I've also stripped out feats and other energy sucking elements of 3x, making things simpler to prep and run (adding f ...

I've always thought that one of the things that has made this such an interesting question for people was Gary Gygax's frequent uses of anagrams for names. Cobb Darg is just unusual enough to tease t ...

Reminds me of something.... I seem to remember a Troll paladin of Pholtus or someone in a scenario or two running round the Pale in living greyhawk.

Interesting reactions from players...

A troll ...

It was a great idea, and very aggravating for us players (but in a good roleplaying way).

Nothing like rolling into town a town fresh from a dungeon crawl and ready to chill in a tavern and unload ...

I've always been kind of liked the gold dragon idea myself.

Both have small wiki's about them though...

http://www.canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Elayne_Mystica
http://www.canonfire.com/w ...

Favorite place - Wild Coast, although I also like being mobile, being able to get all over the place in Greyhawk.

Favorite villain: Ombi to Dwarf caused us all sorts of problems and the Scarlet Bro ...

I started gaming in 1st edition in Greyhawk. When second edition came around we transitioned to it in our original Greyhawk campaign.

A few years after 2nd edition started our group broke up, we h ...

I hope WotC doesn't publish a 4th edition Greyhawk Sourcebook.

It saddens me that Greyhawk has for so long been treated as an unwanted step-child by WotC but its better than having them trash the w ...