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some parts of the adventure are salvageable (although much of that is poorly designed as well), but as for as greyhawk content the module is worth about as much as toilet paper.

Russ Taylor put tog ...

However, as I've moved to Golarion, I feel that SKR's work as vastly improved and with a new creation much of that background material to research just isn't there.

Im not at all familiar with ...

OK, now that I have the magazine, here's a breakdown of the Tamoachan bits:

I'm now converting the adventure to AD&D2e stats, so if anyone is interested, I'll post the notes for that soon. Shou ...

I think chatdemon and darva both abandoned this forum Sad

I, although BX is not my first choice of editions, would have to say at first glance that the two systems are not meant to work toget ...

A while back there was some relatively heated discussion about agriculture in the Amedio. IIRC, Samwise and Chiberias concluded that corn was a virtual impossibility and the Olman Empire must have be ...

PS - Doesn't look like the blog has been kept up but its new to me! Smile

Personal and family issues have kept me from updating it, but I plan to revive it soon.

Somehow the forum profile r ...

Off topic for a moment,

Whisper, could you please resize your avatar (to 150 pixel width or smaller)? It's pretty and all, but it wrecks the page layout.

For a really good example of how this might be done see here -
http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=840&mode=&order=0&thold=0

Yah, Wolfsire's bi ...

It is as GVD indicated, you have been inspirational. If you want, I will reqest a modification to the article to add your criticism or remove the reference to you.

No need for that. I'm glad peo ...

I'm not sure if I should be honored or not at being given a "credit" in an article that fully embraces the hepmonaland homeland theory, the Isle of Dread Olman garbage, and forcefitting the Olman into ...

Such a "license" would be a, pointless (just get the original author's permission) and b, possibly illegal (fair use allows us to create non-profit fan content, but the authors nor canonfire as a whol ...

For me, with one exception, Greyhawk became unrecognizable and messy around 2001 or 2002, when Paizo took over Dungeon and Dragon magazines. The Greyhawk material in the magazines since then is pretty ...

From The Ashes is the early 2nd edition Greyhawk Campaign boxed set. You can get the pdf of it at the Paizo link above.

Later in 2nd edition, the Player's Guide to Greyhawk and Greyhawk: The Advent ...

That's not that obscure. Happy

The Library of the Guild of Wizardry in Greyhawk City. Folk, Feuds, and Factions page 17.

Of course the idea that individual gods and goddesses can be very different to different people has a basis in real world mythology.

Different to various in game cultures and people, maybe, but ...

Perhaps you had a huge mud slide that happened at the time of the Hellfurnaces explosion and instead of starting over the survivors decided to dredge out the existing harbor and struggle on. What wa ...

If what we are seeing, on the other hand, is a variety of revisionist history where the GK now is "canonized" as having always had aspirations in the area of the Amedio, I would be all for that.

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(But Irongate can't have a canal!)

Are the hobloggers on strike again? Laughing

Once the Crystalmists exploded, Sasserine became a horrible place to be. With trade no longer coming from the Imperium I can certainly see a steady decline and perhaps a few slave revolts before the S ...

Second, we have the Olman as potential trading partners, as well as the Amedi Suel, and perhaps the Dakon.

If by trading partners you mean source of slaves, sure.

Fifth, the geography, as note ...

Indeed, because these areas were mapped from the start but only now reveal significant non-Olman habitation, the "hidden kingdom" approach has a certain logic to it.

So we're to just ignore anythin ...

The city is divided into seven districts and ruled by the Dawn Council, consisting of a noble "representative" for each district. The city's layout reminds me of what I imagine Venice and Dyvers to b ...

In regard to the staple vegetables and grains used by the Olman, let's look first at the canon plantlife of the "southern tropical" regions of the setting.

From page 6 of the "Guide to the World of ...

Hopefully I will work that into an article using the name Ix Chel, pronounced ee'shell, meaning "Lady Rainbow", or a varient to make her more accessable (perhaps just Ee'shell).

Just to nitpick :l ...

Now I began the lengthy task of reconciling my theory with the material from C1. I will simply go through the module, addressing the points as they appear, referencing the encounter area numbers given ...

I agree with this with the caveat that, at certain times, the "empire" will be lead by the nobility of one city-state, while, at other times, another city state will be dominant and its nobility wil ...

I will follow this up in the next couple days with an examination of how to reconcile the information in C1: The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan with my theory, until then, feedback on the basic premise is ...

Reposted from my Olman/Amedio blog:
Kaxkichan (cakes-key-chan, The Beautiful Land)

Southwest of the Amedio Jungle, and south of the spot where the Hellfurnace, or Tukuchbinuk (Took-ooch-bin-ook, B ...

At the risk of being called culturally biased or insensitive, I will suggest straying away from long names that are too meso-american. Olman or Inca is easier to grasp than Toloqualwhattheheckazuma. ...

And relating to 2 above, no it wasn't grown in the slash-and-burn plots of the Maya, but it was grown in the floating garden plots of Tenochtitlan. The two ecosystems, however much they are both "Me ...

Wolfsire, what is the "Savage Olman Postfest forum"? I don't see such a folder listed in the fora or as a special feature.

MTG!

Marc,
I think (going by his "corn-dogging" comment Laughing

) tha ...

From the above, we see Camazotz, Zotz, and Zotzilaha all referred to as the "bat-god". Either the Olmans have a lot of bat-gods, or the three are all the same deity. Furthermore, the nereid — th ...

What I do want to point out is a canon issue that I think has been ignored or understated. The Olman had an “empire” and at least according to the description of the Olman PC in Tamoachan, there we ...

Finally, I ask Rich what he meant by Fred Weining's overtly literal "interpretation of the dioramas." Are you talking about something on Frodo's now-lost webpage or in the LGG?

MTG!

If I reme ...