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I personally see the Sea Princes as inspired by piracy in the colonial Caribbean. The southernmost part of the Flanaess (Yeomanry, Sea Princes, Idee, Sunndi, Lordship of the Isles) IMO really shouldn' ...

Even for humans, BMI doesn't scale properly with height (for people much taller or shorter than average). For gnomes, dwarves, and halflings, it's going to give totally bizarre results.

BMI also as ...

Isn't Nerull actually said to be the same person as Infestix / an aspect or name of Infestix in one of the Gord books? At least that's how I read it - Nerull as the name used by worshipers on Oerth, I ...

Yeah, the fuzzy line between demigods (Iuz, Zagyg), quasi-deities (Murlynd, Heward, Keoghtom), and just incredibly powerful mortals makes this tricky. The people I was initially going to list out are ...

Alustriel Silverhand is the FR one.

The adventure has Tasha/Iggwilv as the third, who yeah is a Greyhawk character, but I don't think fits as a good/allied/patron figure.

And yeah they're all su ...

So, I'm running "Vecna: Eve of Ruin" but setting the first two chapters in the Flanaess instead of Faerun, because that's where the characters already are.

Given that this is late 576 CY (just bef ...

Well, that's easily early enough for them to be seen as having been there forever (except by the elves), especially if they were the first humans to arrive.

>>Does anyone use dragons in their games? I haven't really thought about it before but considering it is "Dungeons & Dragons," and this is the oldest setting for the same, there aren't reall ...

Yeah, the winds would matter.

The section in Greyhawk Adventures I was thinking of is:

"The Sea of Dust was first named for its appearance just west of the Hellfurnaces, where volcanic ash is sp ...

Thank you!

Yeah, if it doesn't contradict anything, I think I like the idea that the Hellfurnaces were already naturally volcanic, but that the energies released in the Rain set off additional erup ...

It could be magic, but I think one could argue that the area between the Hellfurnaces and the Azure Sea/Jeklea Bay is close enough to the sea that the continent scale prevailing winds don't predominat ...

This is very cool!

I am creating a set of ruins in the Hellfurnaces near the Sea of Dust.

Was the Hellfurnaces range an actual political border of the Suel Empire pre-Twin Cataclysms, so it would make sense to have ...

I tend to agree that Lolth in the original context is not necessarily as big a deal cosmically as Forgotten Realms Lolth later became. She does have only 66 HP, and isn't presented as head of a Drow p ...

I'm actually not sure whether the drow are matriarchal because they worship Lolth, or whether they favor Lolth over other demon lords because they are matriarchal (chicken or egg). In D3 the Drow aren ...

So pretty huge on an European scale - larger than France (~210k square miles) or Spain (~195k square miles), almost as large as Texas (~261k square miles land only).

It will be very interesting to see what comes of this!

This would be extremely cool. I'd love to see stats for Tuerny, Kas, the Boneheart members (or maybe they're statted in Iuz the Evil? I'd have to check my copy), etc.

I am a little in between.

I don't like multiplying the populations by a fixed factor of say x5 or x10, because that makes the large cities way too big.

Folio populations of the largest cities ...

Thank you! That's a big help.

I will look over the links on Ashardalon. My PCs are likely to face him soon...

A couple of questions:

- Location: When I ran these two adventures, it was the 5E versions from Tales of the Yawning Portal. There, they are suggested to be linked, so I placed them close together ...

Yeah, allowing for multiple Vecna-designed or Vecna-influenced dungeons scattered across the Flanaess seems like a very good idea.

There might also be later imitators of Vecna (or former students, ...

Huh, interesting thought.

I don't think Keraptis could originally have been intended to be a worshiper of Tharizdun, given that White Plume Mountain was written by Lawrence Schick (not Gygax) and p ...

Not specifying the target is pretty funny!

Regarding Tasha/Iggwilv being fey in the latest 5E product (which is very good at extending her lore from previous sources), the boon of immortality IIRC is a byproduct of her dwelling in the Feywild ...

Ah ok. I was thinking the idea was the inner planes being "strung along" the ethereality dimension and the outer planes "strung along" the astrality dimension in the way the parallel worlds/material p ...

This is cool!

I like the idea of the "dimension of probability" that separates parallel worlds.

I do wonder about the astral/ethereal dimensions, though. The Inner Planes and Outer Planes are usually drawn as a ...

Hmm, the dimensions connection is interesting.

I didn't know about the Dangerous Journeys version of the multiverse.

My take isn't exactly any of the above mentioned options.

First, I do agree with Jason's point that (Un)Holy Water is a magical item once created, albeit divine in nature rather than arcane.

Sin ...

That is really cool. I like the zombies of thieves' guild victims, and crocodiles in sewers (Saltmarsh is warm enough that it actually makes sense for them to be there, unlike NYC... Laughing

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If the 1E/Gygaxian theory of magic as interplanar energy transfer is accepted, Tharizdun might be "drawing off" energy from Oerth into his prison.

This could be fixable, either by more completely s ...

Yes, that's a good resolution of the issue IMO.

Do we post material in this thread?

Yeah, I think this depends on editions. If the familiar is essentially a spirit being (celestial/fiend/fey) as in 5E, I don't think it would 'age' at all.

AD&D familiars are magically-boosted a ...

I can't choose two options Laughing

(I'm 30, so do I pick "20-30" or "30-40"?)

Honestly, I just think it's because it came from TSR's UK division and the authors tried to make most of their stuff as English as possible.

I'm sure this is the out-of-universe reason, yeah.
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-The Norse (the RW Cold Barbarian analog), and medieval people in general, actually bathed quite a bit, at least before the Little Ice Age, when bathing fell out of fashion.

I think there's a bro ...

However, FWIW, I like the cycles theory. For something where it might matter to the players, I offer this: Is there some way to modify the cycle, one way or the other? If so, what?

Well, if you acc ...

The Greyhawk Player's Guide (p.8) actually details the temperature zones for the Flanaess. As written most of the Flanaess, including the Sheldomar is temperate

Yeah, that combined with the 30 de ...

To me, a lot of the Greyhawk nations' implied (or even outright stated, in the case of Saltmarsh being like a medieval English fishing town) "cultural equivalents" imply a significantly cooler culture ...

If anyone has any stats on Basilev, the demiurge, or Gellor, or the city of Bardillingham, please post them here for reference.

The 1980 World of Greyhawk folio lists the Mage of the Valley (no ...

"Medieval" is a broad category (both in time and space) and some of these things will be more or less true depending on what time/place the setting is inspired by.

If it's more "Dark Ages" (Migrati ...

Nations don't *always* expand to their potential limits.

Imperial China and Japan have both had rather long isolationist periods, and China before the 20th century generally had a fairly small sphe ...

If anyone has any stats on Basilev, the demiurge, or Gellor, or the city of Bardillingham, please post them here for reference.

The 1980 World of Greyhawk folio lists the Mage of the Valley (no ...

The WoG sourcebook states that;

"All planes and times are open to Boccob. He is able to draw either positive power or negative force from the appropriate plane

Very good point! I think that is ...

If the pass is abandoned, probably it's no longer a practical route, whether because of monsters, bandits, avalanches, landslides, sinkholes, weather, planar anomalies, or some other reason. If that i ...

I would imagine that as originally published, Greyhawk would have used Gygax's 1E theory of the nature of magic found in the 1E DMG, p.40.

As described, the verbal components are "charged with ener ...

The 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide mentions Vecna as a purported author of the Book of Vile Darkness (page 222) and his Eye and Hand artifacts are detailed on page 224.

Page 10-11, which uses t ...

Cool, thanks!

Yes, different assumptions can give a variety of pictures.

My reasoning for higher percentage of people living closer together is purely from a defensive point of view due to large magical predators.

Ah, OK, that makes sense!

I think there would still b ...

Part of the reason the densities are so low might be very broadly drawn borders. The "city-states" (Greyhawk, Hardby, Irongate) have rather large areas listed.

The city itself surely must be a few ...

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