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I'm not sure if this is a reboot of I6.

I6 took place in 528 BC and Curse of Strahd is set in 735 BC (the start date of the 2E Realm of Terror boxed set and 5 years before the Grand Conjunction).
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Ah, I see. That makes sense. They must have changed it all up for Spelljammer/Planescape to all share the one Prime Material.

Would all alternate Prime Material planes in the MotP's model share the ...

I thought Manual of the Planes had one Prime Material. So too the diagram in the back of the 1E PHB. I'll have to look at it again.

But the crystal spheres is a bit fanciful. A prime material plane ...

Thanks for the link, rasgon. I remember that post. In your game, do Oerth/Yarth/Aerth/Uerth/Earth share the same Prime Material Plane? ie. like the Great Wheel model?

Good pick up, TregMallin.

Yes, I was struggling a bit to come up with terminology between planar and alternate dimension/probability and how they fit together.

The TSR settings - Oerth, Toril, K ...

I’ve been thinking about Oerth and its relationships with alternate Earths in my campaign and I’ve come up with the following planar/dimensional logic.

A dimension is like looking at a shelf full o ...

Wow, thanks for your help, everyone.

Unfortunately, all of the books you mention are made for a miniatures game - that's the nature of the beast. With the exception of the one PDF, there were minia ...

Hi Folks,

With all of the talk about Western Oerik lately, I've decided to look into the Chainmail Miniatures line but I only want the essential books (ie. I don't want to end up with dozens of box ...

Mercane/arcane - the giant, blue-skinned extraplanar merchants...

"hidden inside a box" merchants. Jeff Grubb needs a dictionary Embarassed

Depending on how far you want to go back with the Ur-Flan, Vecna: Hand of the Revenant has this bit spoken by Vecna's mother:

“Our ancestors are said to have learned arcane magic from a great serp ...

Does Oerth have an over-god?

Not officially . . . thank Boccob! Wink

In my Great Wheel cosmology, the worlds of Oerth, Toril and Krynn kind of form a triumvirate. Each of thes ...

Boccob, being neutral, would never take an action instigated by any motivation. He is the Uncaring. There is no High God to coerce him into teaching magic to mortals. He cannot, by his very nature, ...

Ao was shown to be the Over-god of "his" universe and, in the final pages, it was shown that, not only did Ao answer to a Higher Power, but the Higher Powr had instructed him to "fix things" in "his" ...

...If Boccob died, I don't think that magic itself would change, but, I think that there would be some kind of change. I can't imagine such an enormous force in the world ceasing to exist, and the wo ...

And it's been suggested that Tharizdun is responsible for the loss of Oerth's magic.

We'll always have psionics. Nothing can kill that power source, right? Laughing

Also, I hate the use of the word Arcane. It describes the insides of an ark (a box). In 3rd Edition Wizards cast box-interior magic. You'd think Monte Cook owned a dictionary.

Had a quick search ...

There is a quantifiable worry that magic dies out in Oerth though. We know that by 998 CY magic has faded quite a bit. Now is this because of the demise of Boccob/Wee Jas or just a weakening of some G ...

I was thinking about what happened to Toril when Mystra, the God of Magic was slain. Basically all hell broke loose. Something called the Spellplague wracked the planet, causing many wizards to go ins ...

Thanks, folks.

From reading the comments above, I believe the demi-human deities in UA should be part of a Gygaxian Greyhawk. I know Gygax didn't create them but we must understand that Greyhawk, f ...

First, let me say I’m not a Greyhawk purist or a militant grognard. My current Greyhawk game is very much a "TSR Greyhawk" and utilises Planescape, Spelljammer and Ravenloft. I also use the City of Gr ...

Thanks, mortellan. That was an interesting read. Smile

Perhaps my above example of Black Ice simply being clear, glass-like sheets of ice over black, rocky badlands can be explained by potent elemental forces of Air or Ice in the region that sustain the p ...

Along these lines, you may find my description of "stygian ice" interesting on my Wondrous Materials webpage

I like your Stygian Ice - pockets of the Land of Black Ice that have been mystically inf ...

I know it's fantasy but I like the idea of at least some basic "scientific" reason explaining the Land of Black Ice. I mean, we could say it is coterminous with the Gray Waste or something and the bla ...

Thanks for letting me know. Yes, I do like that sort of cross-over thing. I might seek out a copy :)

I was wondering what would happen if you melted down a chunk of Black Ice - would you get black water? Would it be drinkable?

Also, what is the component that makes it black? Is it something mundan ...

I came across this book on Amazon and in the contents under organisations it has things like:

Church of Pelor
Heirs of Kyuss
St Cuthbert's House

Has anyone used this book in their Greyhawk cam ...

I guess there's 2 paths I could take regards magic on Gamma World:

1) Gamma World is a dead magic area. Maybe magic existed a little bit in the past but it has since waned completely. Or, more like ...

Thanks everyone for the extra info. That's interesting how CotGs and the Egg of Coot are unrelated . . . the list of extra-terrestrial visiters from different universes grows!

I've been doing more ...

I've been doing some research on Gamma World and Star Frontiers and found 2 interesting pieces:

1) The semi-pro Gamma World fan module "Omega Project" (Module GW11) links the Starship Warden to Gam ...

"At least two points of origin for machine life cysts are currently known, the Barrier Peaks and the Rael cysts. Many more are suspected to exist, but they are as yet undiscovered." - Dragon #258, pag ...

Thanks for the excellent and informative posts.

This gets some ideas brewing.

I notice in the MA intro you quoted, it says: "By the 23rd Century a great migration wave was spreading from Old Ter ...

Hello

Usually I'd be one not to mix sci-fi and fantasy, but in my current Greyhawk campaign I'm considering it. Actually, I'm quite excited about the idea. Happy

I was just wondering if a Gre ...

I can't quite remember how Oerthblood was described in Return of the Eight (or whether it was described at all).

Was it an unseen magical force like Monte's Earthblood or a literal blood-like liqui ...

I saw this on Monte Cook's site. I thought I'd share it with everyone as it could explain Oerthblood in the GH setting:

http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?mpress_BOXM_earthblood

Try this link. It sounds interesting.

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11929.phtml

Thanks for that. Yes, that's the review I've read. The reviewer has an amusing writing style but I was ho ...

I have never even heard of this adventure!

Can you give some more details (publisher, etc.) so that I can look it up?

Yes, the adventure was published by Troll Lord Games a few years ago under t ...

I haven't seen much discussion of this one. Is it any good?

I read the review on RPGnet which describes it as a planar matrix the PCs are trapped in. They must climb up a cylinder (the Hall of Many ...

Also, if it were me, I would go ahead and run it as per for quite a while even going so far as to have it look like a Kyuss plot only to shift late game with a BIG REVEAL where the PCs learn that it i ...

Thanks, everyone.

I agree, Tharizdun is overused in published adventures. In my game, though, I've been dropping subtle hints of impending doom and evidence of Tharizdun's cult active. I was lookin ...

I was thinking of hunting down the Age of Worms adventure path but was wondering if Kyuss could be swapped with Tharizdun?

Or would this require major reworking?

Tharizdun's big on the whole ten ...

Beyond that, to insinuate that someone else's campaign is somehow invalid because one didn't play in it, is likewise foolhardy. Just because one has not done something, does not, and cannot, detract ...

I loved the Gord the Rogue novels (except maybe the last 2 where things started to get a bit super-heroish and the ending was a bit controversial - not to mention an advertisment for Gary's new Yarth ...

I never participated in LG, and so I do not consider it to hold any water. For me, the timeline remains at 591 CY, where it has been frozen these past eight years.

I think the timeline of Expediti ...

I have always seen Mord working to maintain a balance in the Flan, a balance of his own conception. I played it as though Rary decided to to take a different approach than Mord and Mord decided to do ...

The Retro look is popular. Maybe WotC could take it to the extreme and make the cover designs and layout old school - like Goodman Game's Dungeon Crawl Classics mods for example.

ZTG 4505 Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor: The Dungeons of Castle Blackmoor
(some version of this may have been in, or inspired by, the original EGG/Arneson/Kuntz campaigns...I would include it at least ...

Not a very "Living" campaign if it dies in the end. That's a shame.

For a rebooted 4E GH I'd like to see:

Campaign Guide
Player's Guide
City of Greyhawk hardback
Greyhawk Ruins mega-boxed set ...

I think when they ended the campaign, the rights technically revert to the authors . . . WoTC could likely make a bookif they wanted to summarize all of the events that led up to the assassination of ...

Start the new Greyhawk right after the release of the LGG. There was nothing significant published after that (from a GH history point of view), and all of what happened in the zillions of LG mods is ...

Wizards rewrites the setting, paving the way for their new races, basing most of their decissions on the popular trends of the day that then capturing the original spirit of the setting. Eventually dr ...

A reboot concerns me because this begs the question: What happens if the setting is messed up again? Will it call for another reboot down the track?

Are other settings called into question too? Wil ...

At a glance, I cannot see any areas that either adventure have in common. I am pretty sure that a conscious effort was made to ensure that WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins was nothing like the looney WG7 Castle Gr ...

I own WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins but not WG7 Castle Greyhawk.

I was just curious if WGR1 borrows anything from WG7, like maps for example or the odd room or two?

Or is WGR1 a complete rework?

I'm th ...

Black-clad WotC ninjas steal EGG's notes and computer data on a regular basis. This is why Castle Zagyg is taking so long. Laughing

Thanks.

Has anyone checked out the chapter on the Vault of the Drow yet?

What's it like?

Does it cover a lot more ground than what's in D1-3?

Thanks

I can't quite remember, but I seem to recall the Horned Society worshipping Anthraxus (Neutral Evil daemon lord of disease) in the Gord the Rogue series. My memory is foggy so some would have to confi ...

These are great write ups Happy

What about Gary's new Lejendary Earth? Should this fit into the scheme of things?

Your write-up on Earth isn't offensive. It's fiction afterall! Happy

The on ...

Thanks! These are all interesting ideas Happy

If you look at the illustrations in the Tomb of Horrors player handout book, there's also quite a few pseudo-Egyptian carvings on the walls of the t ...

I wasn't sure whether to pick this one up: EGG's "Necropolis" adventure (originally published for Dangerous Journeys but updated to d20 by Necromancer Games).

Necropolis looks like it'd be great in ...

The free v3.5 download of the original White Plume Mountain mentions the closest town to WPM is a village called Yellowreach (it's 5 miles from WPM).

Return to White Plume Mountain says Plaguefield ...

Can someone please give me a brief description of what Oerthblood is?

It's what folks on this thread are calling "faerzress"

Telas

Thanks.

I guess when I heard the term "Oerthblood" I took ...

Can someone please give me a brief description of what Oerthblood is?

Thank you Happy

We've discussed it several times in the chat, and it most likely that Oerthblood should be treated the same as Faerzress.

Is there a link or info on what exactly Oerthblood is?

Which product did ...

I was wondering if anyone had come up with an alternative name for faerzress as featured in the FR book "Underdark".

Faerzress is that "energy" in the Underdark that confounds such things as scryin ...

Thanks for the info Happy

Thanks, everyone, for the responses. Smile

I was just wondering if it were common knowledge to the public that the leader of the Thieves' Guild and the leader of the Assassins' Guild are on the ...

I was just wondering if the citizens of Greyhawk know who, exactly, is on the Greyhawk City Oligarchy or if this is kept a mystery? For example, does the public know the Guildmaster of Assassins and t ...

It's refreshing to hear that other people don't think Greyhawk City would have easy access to the Underdark. I don't like to overdo the Underdark. In some settings it seems you can access the Underdar ...

If Greyhawk were a "neutral" city I probably wouldn't have a problem with open bloodshed and folks being slaughtered in the heart of the city for entertainment. However, with the "no evil churchs allo ...

I haven't read the Age of Worms adventure path, but is it true that blood sports take place in the Greyhawk city arena?

In other words, gladiators can legally kill other gladiators in the arena? Mu ...

I was just wondering what's under the city of Greyhawk. A lot of fantasy cities are built on top of an ancient civilisation. Waterdeep, for example, is built on top of ancient dwarven ruins. Also, Cau ...

Can a moderator please make this poll multiple choice. Embarassed

I was wondering if anyone has their GH campaign connected to Toril or Krynn and if your GH PCs visit often?

During the 2E era there was a big push to connect worlds via Spelljammer, Ravenloft and P ...

Hello,

Do the Chainmail supps offer much source material on Oerik? Or, is it just vague references?

I'd really like to flesh out the west much more.

Which Chainmail books do you recommend for ...

Cuthbert was a follower of the Celtic rite of early Christianity and only late adopted the Roman rite after the Synod of Whitby

That's all good and well but how do you explain the silly hat? Happy

...

Just wondering who Cuthbert worshipped (he was a cleric, right?) before he ascended to godhood.

Did his ascension to godhood come hand-in-hand with his "Saint" title?

How did he ascend?

How m ...

Count Strahd von Zarovich came from GH in my campaign.

He lived in a small province in the slopes close to Perrenland.

Baggins, if it was originally destined for Greyhawk are there any references to Greyhawk left in, or did the editors replace them all?

When OA for 1st Ed. AD&D was released, the small section that ...

I hate to be a killjoy, but the scenarios described in this thread are a nightmare come true for me. They represent the single worst thing that could happen to Oerth and the Greyhawk setting

Ya, I ...

I know Kara Tur is in Forgotten Realms, though I heard rumor that it was supposed to be in Greyhawk originally.

Yes, Kara-Tur was destined for Greyhawk but got re-routed to the Realms.

Just wondering if your PCs have travelled to Greyhawk's far future.

I think it would be fascinating to see how a fantasy medieval campaign evolves. Does it become a high-tech science/sorcery world? ...

Hello,

My copy of the Sentinel is missing the last page. Is this page just player handouts? Is there anything that I need on it?

Thankyou.

There's a good article about druids in Oerth Journal 15.

It has about a paragraph on each of the gods suitable to be worshipped in a GH campaign.

The girl playing a druid in my game worships Ehl ...

Thanks for the reply. Smile

I'm suprised Gord doesn't appear in any recent publications . . .

Thanks for that guys Smile

Wow, Celene, the little handmaiden, is in truth bigger than the queen of the night, Luna.

I read a nice creation myth featuring Beory and Nerull in one of the Oerth Journals but can't find it. Could someone please tell me which Oerth Journal this was? I think it was in an article about Dru ...

Thanks, folks Smile

Yes, I kinda thought Needfest was the New Year celebration but then I have a tendency to wanna put it just at the *end* of the year rather than at the *beginning* of the yea ...

Most countries, if they're in the temperate zones of the Northern or Southern hemisphere, will have seasons of equal length.

The Flanaess is pretty much a Northern hemisphere temperate zone but its ...

Just wondering what Oerth folk do on "New Year's Eve"?

Is there a count down to 12am? Are there fireworks (magic ones of course) when it strikes midnight?

Historically, how modern is the concept ...

Thank you for the responses.

Speaking of Beory . . .

I read a nice creation myth featuring Beory and Nerull in one of the Oerth Journals but can't find it. Could someone please tell me which Oer ...

IMC, I have rearranged the weekdays so that the two "off days" are back to back - a weekend.

Thanks for that. I might just do the same Smile

Another GH goof, I think was the day called "Sund ...

Just wondering if Godsday is a public holiday. I mean, it's clear Freeday is a public holiday and it's also easy to relate to -- it's like a lazy Sunday (Earth Sunday, that is!) in the real world.

...

In our real world, many cultures revered the moon and sun as gods.

In Greyhawk, the gods are no less personified because they are given names. You've got Luna and her Handmaiden, Celene; and you've ...

There's celestial-type beings at the tail end of the Gord the Rogue series. They ain't no cherribum, though.

I'm to lazy to look up my book but I think they were described as beings of energy, ligh ...

I feel Greyhawk will always be *incomplete* in the published arena. Why? Because 2 major items of the Greyhawk campaign were never fully detailed by the original creator: The City of Greyhawk and the ...

Elves are about five feet tall, fully a head or more shorter than humans (except grey elves, that are "taller," and valley elves/grugach are fully 6'). They are also notably slight in build, somethin ...

Calling all artists!

I'm sick of not having a *true* mental picture of what the elven subraces look like when compared to each other.

You see, I like the picture of the human "subraces" in the L ...

Hello Muscles,

I recently posed this question on EN World. I'd direct you there but I can't find the thread.

Basically, people said it was easier to say that the "summoned" monsters are really j ...