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I distinctly remember Gygax responding in one of his email answers that the Flan peoples predated even the demi-humans in the Flanaess. I've always preferred that interpretation, personally, given the ...

What can you tell me about Quest for the Golden Orb? (on your honorable mentions) Is that available online anywhere?

My Final List:

Let Us Now Praise Prince Zeech & the Fathers That Begat Him
d4/d8=d32
01 Zeech reads the books so we don’t have to!
02 Alhaster is a woman and a woman longs to be led by the s ...

Here's my very rough, very first, draft of a few:

Zeech reads the books so we don’t have to!
Alhaster is like a woman and a woman longs to be led by the strength of one man
Zeech bears the world’ ...

The 1e Monster Manual describes grey elves thus:

"Grey elves have either silver hair and amber eyes or pale
golden hair and violet eyes. The latter sort are generally called faeries."

[IMC I lo ...

The characters in my Age of Worms campaign are about to arrive, for the first time, in Alhaster. I've decided to emphasize the "thought-police" element of the tyranny there and will be having all of t ...

SirXaris, I'm glad to find a fellow soul who obsesses over wind direction.

My theory is that the reason that "The Flanaess is particularly blessed with regard to its weather" is that the ancient el ...

I ran Mohr's Marsh Den of the Mad Mage over the summer. It was just okay, overall, and required fairly heavy modification, but I springboarded off the ideas that were there and came up with a satisfyi ...

My notes were from a 3e campaign, so I was wondering if maybe Sunmote came from a Dungeon or Dragon magazine.

In my old notes from a few campaigns ago, I have numerous references to one Sunmote, a solar in the service of Pelor.

Question: Did I make up this character? or is he derived from a specific sourc ...

Also, I believe Skye the Lioness is the wizard patron who sends the PCs against Marquesa/Markessa in the three Kill Marquesa modules from CaslEntertainment, and also some of the sequels against her he ...

At least one of the official sources for regional alignment lists all nine alignments among the Paynims (as I recall, the others suggest a CN bent). So the easiest interpretation for me is these parti ...

Looking through my Celene notes, I saw that I'd copied the following Tolkien hypothesis from a blog article entitled "The Moral Economy of the Shire":

• (https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05 ...

These are good ideas, thanks. What feels right, to extend Sir Xaris' idea, is that the faerie economy is almost entirely a gift/barter exchange, due to the smaller, manageable number of elves, while t ...

Does anyone have any ideas on how the economy of Celene, as a faerie-dominated Kingdom, would differ from the states of the surrounding Flanaess?

I keep returning to this question, and my intuition ...

Could someone remind me where the Nehri settled in the current Flanaess?

I haven't run it, and you'd need to track down online the missing page from the published module, but wasn't Border Watch (from early 90's) intended for exactly the sort of campaign you're discussing?

I found this somewhere but didn't write down the source. It suggests that Dragotha took the monolith prior to his destruction by Tiamat and subsequent rebirth as a dracolich, and implies that Dragotha ...

I'm curious where this statement comes from, I don't think I've heard it before.

I read the editorial but am still a little confused as to the difference between Visions of Greyhawk and Grey Grimoire. I like them both a lot, but is there supposed to be a different focus between t ...

That makes a lot of sense to me. I wish we had historical tales and/or myths of how such and such a technology was discovered or invented. I really like your cultural distinctions in armor, and I wi ...

There's numerous timelines around, but I can't find answers to either of these anywhere. Does anyone have any ideas?

1) How long after Kyuss' attempted ascension did the elves/dakon and eladrins s ...

Great suggestions, guys. Thank you.

Curious if anyone has opinions on when plate armor was invented?

I'm going to be running The Spire of Long Shadows from the Age of Worms adventure path in the next few weeks, and the visions the PCs may receive of the ancient time of Kyuss' rule annoy me for their ...

Wow. That's an impressive list.

I'd like to know what you know about the following, and their Greyhawk content, if any:

1986 G1-4 Revolt of the Giants (unpublished)
1999 Emissaries (2e Adventur ...

Why did you list County Ulek but not Duchy or Principality?

Isn’t it stated somewhere that Verbobonc is a vassal to Veluna?

I bet you're thinking about these, which are really good:

https://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/2023/01/HORSE1.html

https://bruce-heard.blogspot.com/2023/01/gnus-llamas-and-moose-oh-my.html

https: ...

Ah, sorry, I was zoomed in and it vanished the bottom of the screen.

thanks!

Okay, weirdly enough, I was on this site and downloaded a bunch of stuff just yesterday.

Today, I can see the entirety of all of the documents, page by page, in a sort of preview, but can't find a ...

Grodog, many thanks for the extensive response!

I hadn't known your roundabout level would be included in the Return to Perinthos project; I have backed that, based on your level alone.

Have you ...

I'm curious if anyone knows where this word "Rhalta" comes from among the honorifics of Queen Yolande. Is it derived from a real world title? is it a Gygaxian anagram?

My best idea so far is to crib from the last 10 minutes of 2001 A Space Odyssey and have the character perceiving & encountering other versions of himself and then perhaps becoming those versions. ...

thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

Does anyone have any ideas on incorporating realms or agents of Cyndor, Istus, and/or Tsolorandril? These deities are so obscure it feels like this would be th ...

I'm DMing the Mushroom Caverns of the Hellspike Prison, where the big bad is a beholder. I used Grodog's rules for randomizing beholder eye rays and one of them was plane shift.

In the battle (whi ...

Didn't Living Greyhawk call this area The Tuflik-Fals Gap or somesuch?

Gary, I'd love that. Thanks and let us know,
JC

PC05 actually IS located at the first link Sir Xaris provided. It's way to the bottom and not labeled PC05, just Soul Husks. I just downloaded and both Philidor and Iuz are started out therein.

Any chance of print version of these?

Hello, sir,

So my questions concern the settlements or fortifications (Rotted Tower & Tycheron are the only ones named) that you marked on your map of the Occluded Empire on p.11.

Did you ba ...

Samwise, thanks for letting Gary know; I'd love to hear his answer on this.

I'm also guessing no one else recalls any significant location on the point of land from any other module, adventure, etc ...

So, Samwise, back to my original question:

What do you know of symbol on that point of land on the Wild Coast jutting into Woolly Bay?

Is there anything at that location to find now?

I found out about it here:

https://domainofgreyhawk.wordpress.com/2024/05/23/vecna-genesis-of-a-legend/

but the link there returns you to Canonfire.

It's by Gary Holian and Sam Weiss; it's ve ...

Allan,

I've never seen the insert in any of WoG boxed sets. I bet this is just a matter of folks storing the magazine insert in their box set, and then selling it, so that those who bought it used ...

In the excellent new treatise, Vecna: Genesis of a Legend, there's a great map of the Occluded Empire of Vecna in its heyday.

There is an unlabelled symbol for what I suppose to be a major settleme ...

Slavers has a ton of background information, by the way, plenty of stuff to steal there.

I should also mention Brink of Calamity by Trent Smith, an-as-yet unpublished sandbox setting based around N ...

Off the top of my head—

1) Rob Kuntz' Dark Druids (Black Blade Publishing)

2) early 3e Dungeon adventure (issue #80s somewhere) set in Narwhal

3) an adventure in Fate of Istus set in Elredd
...

I love most of the recommendations above (esp. Dunsany, Crowley, Jonathan Strange, Broken Sword), but was quite bored with Mythago Wood (I seem to be the only one not enchanted by this) and found Macd ...

In terms of inspiration from RPG, I have to add—

Dolmenwood (Gavin Norman): this releases this fall but backers have pdfs already. Likely to be regarded as the best hexcrawl in the history of the ...

In your video, you forgot to discuss the renaming of North Province.

I find myself somewhat surprised to be so much in agreement with the Church of Pholtus.

My only suggestion for edit: the 8 minor gods who participated in the anti-Iuz ritual were, in fact, mere de ...

I'm looking forward to this as well.

I'm sure Anna Meyer somewhere on her maps website has a Oerth map with the equator on it. Finding stuff on there can sometimes be tricky, but this is a topic she's done a lot of work on.

Another p ...

I'm about to run adventures there right now (Hellspike Prison & Spire of Long Shadows), and I say yes it is. Scarlet Brotherhood accessory & Shackled City & Spire adventure all strongly s ...

Thanks for Bishop Haufrenn. I'd forgotten about him.

(Allan, the index is superb but most of the time the gods of clerics aren't listed. For instance, if you look up Eritai Kaan-Ipzirel, there's ...

I'm assuming you already know about the old modules UK2 The Sentinel & UK3 The Gauntlet? That's where Berghof was created.

Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins was the next to develop the place, wit ...

I'm going to avoid Y'dey, but the Furyondian cleric from WG4 is just the kind of thing I'm looking for. Thanks!

A high-level character in my campaign is being sent on a religious quest by Eritai Kaan-Ipzirel. I'm looking for stat blocks or even references to the existence of high-level followers of Saint Cuthb ...

I heard that the Vecna book has a dungeon or something connected to Acererak on the Isle of Serpents. So that sounds interesting, at least.

The Saltmarsh book was good, and I actually appreciated ...

I dislike all of these new races, but I've used some in my game now and then, and even allowed one to be played.

Warforged) These are Ebberon only and not allowed. The only way I'd use them is if ...

Am I correct that this work doesn't treat the standard demi-human pantheons as canonical?

I'm quite intrigued by the olven history, in particular.

Have you considered making silver-haired grey e ...

I guess I didn't mention him in that Cuthbert's opposition to and intervention against Iuz is so well established that an additional demigod foe seemed superfluous.

I don't know the answer to that, but am curious if anyone has ever done anything interesting with her. Her portfolio is so close to Heironeous that she seems really redundant, god-wise.

From what ...

In White Dwarf #22, p. 13 (according to Zavoda Index), there's a magic item named Tenser's Shield, possibly written by Roger Moore.

I don't have access to this issue and would like to know about th ...

Sort of a tangent but the original post got me thinking:

What third-party or non-GH modules would be suitable for use as existing (but undeveloped) adventure locations?

The Carl Sargent-era Gre ...

Thanks you, Grodog, for the interesting parties. Two questions:

1) do either of these parties have an adventuring company name?

2) were either of these parties undertaking a (ideally, not linke ...

Sir Xaris, thanks so much for that link. I'll definitely be looting that for NPCs.

Sadly, I spent the last ten minutes trying to persuade myself that Tenser = McConaughey could work. It cannot wo ...

The party in the Age of Worms campaign I'm DMing (The Diamond Lake **** Weasels—long story) is starting the Spire of Long Shadows chapter and so will be heading to Magepoint for their first meeting wi ...

I really like the idea that the nine as listed by EGG/RJK were mere demigods at the time of their imprisonment, but have risen to Lesser God status as a result of their freeing.

I don't like how ma ...

Here's a related question I've wondered about for a long time:

How much can we glean of the culture of SURFACE elves by the description of the dark elves in Vault of the Drow?

(it being a curios ...

Thanks everyone for the legal particulars, adversarial vs. inquisitorial, and notes on habeas corpus—none of this stuff is my strong suit,

1) The denunciation and confession scene took place within ...

Thank you, Tarelton and Samwise,

A few wrinkles/clarifications:

Whether Pappy is technically guilty of burglary, I'm not sure. What he did was enter Eritai's private chambers and magically copy ...

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1) To what extent does the Church of Saint Cuthbert in Greyhawk City obey Greyhawk city law when to do so is against the ethics and interests of the church itself?
2) How should ...

Thanks, Grodog. I'll have to check out my copy of the new Isle of Dread—weird that such an item was added in the new version.

I've found a few more in some obscure places:

• A Chase Through the ...

Wow, that is a true paucity of many-worlded wells. I'd have thought a magic item dating back at least to the 1e DMG would've shown up more.

Is anyone familiar enough with the Anthony Huso adventur ...

I'm looking for any published adventure including a well of many worlds. I'd prefer a Greyhawk adventure, of course, but will settle for what exists.

The only adventure I know of off-hand is a Liv ...

Thanks, Allan, I always appreciate roundups like this,
JC

Allan, it appears from one of the photos that were print copies of the new Lakofka adventures. Are these for sale anywhere?

I use Ehlonna for spring (adversary of Obad-hai autumn) and Beory represents all four of the seasons in one.

I attended a Q&A with Gary Gygax at Gen Con in 1985. I got to ask him a question, and I asked him how many Great Druids there were in the Flanaess.

He answered me, definitively, seven. And th ...

Both Greyhawk Grognard (on his blog) and the Greyhawk Reborn guy (on his Patreon) have completed and filled out the Baklunish pantheon, each in his own way. I prefer the version of Joe Bloch/Greyhawk ...

Is there actually anything in Storm King's Thunder that connects/references/relates to GDQ1-7, or is it listed here simply because it involves giants and was inspired by the earlier work?

I miss the Hardby Amazons and would be curious and interested in what you come up with. The Flanaess needs more women-dominated areas, IMO.

I second the mention of CASLentertainment stuff. Carlos should also get a shout-out for his magic item design, which is the best I've seen.

Dvorak also recently published Ravensrook, which is the ...

I love these adventures. I think T0 Journey to Hommlet might be my favorite, a superb prequel adventure for a party traveling to Hommlet before T1. The locations and the journey are very well-develo ...

I like the names you've derived from the syllables quite a bit, but I'd eschew using those identical to the deity's name to prevent multiplication of imaginary entities and confusion at the gaming ta ...

Thanks, everyone. What's especially interesting here, which I don't think I ever noted before, is that, pre-Slave Lords, Safeton really seems to be the center of slavery in the Wild Coast/Domain of G ...

I confess that nothing sounds more Grey- than the slaveholding landowners of the Wild Coast banding together in righteous indignation against the Yellow Sails slavers who in their depredations are sla ...

A topic I know has been hashed out before is Who were the Slave Lords selling slaves to? and I believe the consensus was the Sea Princes and the Scarlet Brotherhood.

However, while reading the From ...

Since the weather patterns on earth are a mirror image of themselves north and south of the equator, it seems reasonable that such patterns could have evolved in an opposite direction on any other pla ...

Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion that Oerth rotates and the sun rises in the east and sets in the west just as on earth.

According to the Guide and subsequent sources, prevailing wi ...

I will second Califor's comment that T0 Journey to Hommlet is an excellent introduction to T1-4. It's free on Greyhawk Grognard's website; check it out if you haven't yet.

I <like> CG elves evicting all the humans without compromising their alignment or demonic deceit. What's great about Greyhawk is the threat of wars and conflict between good-aligned groups.

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Yes, the PC is neither a cleric nor a follower of Saint Cuthbert, but studied the faith in great detail as part of her backstory.

I think my hesitation about direct action by the Viscount has been ...

Cuthbert definitely won't be okay with this, as much of her "revisions" to the creed undermined authority and hierarchy in the name of equality.

My sense is that the Church of Saint Cuthbert would ...

According to the Greyhawk Wiki: "The Stars, whose symbol is a starburst, seek to enforce doctrinal purity among those already dedicated to the saint. Most are lawful neutral, and they do not shy from ...

Yes. Dusty the Witch was in fact only one of two assistants to the real perpetrator, the party factotum i.e. thief Pappy Dickens; but due to earlier suspicion and too-narrowly worded divinations from ...

Thank you, everyone, for the feedback and suggestions.

Vulcan, there's not only no bounty hunter guild, there's not even an adventurer guild—although, practically-speaking, the Seekers of the Arcan ...

Vulcan, because there's no mention of a bounty hunter guild in Greyhawk City (in the CoG box set, FtA Campaign book, G:TAB, or ETRG) I assumed there wasn't one and that the Assassins Guild was the clo ...

As mentioned in another recent thread, in my campaign Fionor the Rude has contracted with the Greyhawk Assassins Guild to retrieve a party member alive so she can be sent to Greysmere for trial as a t ...

Thanks, Allan,

I hope this scenario gets published or becomes available at some point, along with L6 & whatever else he left behind.