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Well....i'm at work at the moment and don't hace access to the books; but I belive I've always played that Dispel Magic impacts all "magics" within it's Area of Effect....so in this case; I'd say...if ...

I have kind of a love/hate thing for 'Game of Thrones'...on the one hand; I really enjoy (in my opinion) the flat-out phenomenal talent of Martin as a story-teller.....on the other hand; I get really, ...

I made a "fix" to this and similar problems long ago....make Skeletons and Zombies NE instead of N. Problem solved!

I understand that they're "mindless"; but to me; I always went with Undead = Evil ...

Vestcoat; DMPrata; thanks so much for this; you guys rock! Smile

Do either of you (or anybody else reading the thread) know if there was any material on Rudd BEFORE the Miller articles?

(And ...

Actually Lanthorn; your take is by far the most popular one in my experience.

However; seeing as how Fharlangn is a Neutral (NG) power; I'm not sure I would interpret that as being a protector of ...

MS: Good point! I should've phrased that better...mostly, I was just trying to say that I think many people find a correlation between being pale-skinned and thinking that equates only to the Suel whe ...

Sorry; this is a bit off topic; but relates to Smilian and others' recent comments: In my experience; it seems like many players I know who don't really know much about Greyhawk; but who find themselv ...

I believe this was put up in a Dragon magazine at some point; but seeing as I don't own any Dragon magazines......does anyone know what the specifics are for Specialty Priests of Rudd? (i.e. in the se ...

Wow; I certainly didn't mean any of my silly, irrevrent opinions to be taken seriously by anybody and if anything causes offense to anyone; my sincere apologies; Please note that probably 99% of what ...

Okay; I think most people seem to think that because they're white (i.e. have "pale" skin) they must relate themselves to Suel....Oeridians are also pretty European-esque (Frankish/Mediterranian) in a ...

Hey smillian; I certainly mean no offense to anyone and I'm ALWAYS just throwing my own opinion out there...it's a free-country and to each their own...I wouldn't dream of ever telling anyone their op ...

Long reply ahead...and note: these opinions are more based off of "gaming experience" than any kind of personal like/dislike for any particular class/concept.....there are remarkably few class/concept ...

I very much like the Slavers series; though there are several minor inconsistences (like the name of a certain High priest; Stalman Klim or Mordrommo? :) ); but these are minor things....I didn't part ...

I just looked up the spell in both 1st and 2nd Editions...

In first; it's pretty much permanent until an attack is made or dispelled; in 2nd; it's a maximum of 24 hours.

I think even 24 hours is ...

Not specifically pertaining to the original question....but am I the only one who thinks that the duration for Invisibility (i.e. FOREVER until an attack is made) is more than a little ridiculous for ...

WHOO-HOO! 4 fans of 2nd Edition.....that's AWESOME! We can now form the 'nerd clique' of the GH community on Canonfire! (Thankfully, I've allready found a sucker-of-a-wonderful-woman and married her; ...

Actually......none.....I have never liked music during gaming; I find it way too distracting; but I'm frquently the only one!

Holy Crap; another 2nd Edition fan...I thought I was the only one! :) Yay for Lanthorn!

Okay; name: Max Vale

Forum Nick: See above + year of birth

Age: 35

I began playing D&D in '86 w ...

I had completely forgotten that we could send/recieve PMs; sorry about that! Thanks Peshakauri; I just sent you a reply!

-Max

Lanthorn;

I might be not be interpreting what you're saying correctly here; but are you saying that when you played T1; Lareth was a Drow?

I ask this because a few years back I was talking with ...

I always find it interesting to see what various folks think about various adventures....for example; I really enjoy the A series (particularly the 4th and last module; I just LOVE having the PCs star ...

Thanks Sir Xaris; I guess I will do a search to find one of these modules for sale on-line....I've been meaning to do that for an origianal copy of T1 anyway (I own T1-4)......thanks again!

Okay; I just learned that there were several pregenerated characters in G1-3 including such a wonderful Gygaxian name as "Gleep Wurp, the Eye-biter"....here's my problem...

Despite having no fewer ...

Well, I guess I'm the odd man out; since I really enjoyed the way the Greyhawk wars were described as occuring.....though, I was just coming into D&D in the late 80s-early 90s; so to me; the Cook/ ...

Hey there blakeryan;

Not sure if you are aware of it; but the 2nd edition sourcebook; "Rary the Traitor" has a clan of Duergar with a Beholder ally/leader going by the name of "Father Eye" in the B ...

I've heard "Lich" both ways...."Lich" (rhymes with "itch") and Lick.....I'm partial to the former....

As for "Flan" and "Flaness"; I always pronounced them as "Flan" (rhymes with "ban") and "Flan-e ...

I've always prounounced "Nyr Dyv" as "Near Div"; but "Dyvers" as "Divers" (as in "Scuba Divers")....

WOW....seriously man....are you the president of MENSA? You must have the biggest brain (at least, for storing GH info, if nothing else! :) ) that I've ever known! :)

Thanks for the info....yeah; o ...

I kinda agree with One Eye's last point; but even if Boccob could be "neutralized" or "Killed" (has any GH deity been killed in cannon? I know that Vatun and Tharizdun have been neutralized/imprisoned ...

I'm one of the very few that I know of that actually really liked Carl Sargent's (and Dave Cook before him; if I'm remembering the author correctly; the text from the WARs boxed set) plot elements of ...

An adventure I adapted for a homebrew world a few years back was one fo the adventure cards that came with either the "From the Ashes" or the "City of Greyhawk" boxed sets (don't remember which, sorry ...

While I really have no interest in seeing this as drug-comedies really aren't my thing (I didn't really think Pineapple Express was all that good: okay...but nothing special)....but some of these comm ...

14 out of 22....I think the only characters I ever had that had polearms were way back when I was 10 and playing the Mentzer Red-box Basic D&D and I chose the "Polearm" (only 1 choice in that book ...

I have absolutely zero experience with Chaosium's Basic Role Playing system; but a thought immediately hits me:

Why not have a "magic" language which Mages would learn as part of thier studies? It ...

Personally, I don't mind Comeliness as an abstract stat that MIGHT come into play here and there (such as during "seduction" attempts); but I thought some of the effects as listed were more than a lit ...

I was rather disapointed in TOEE; but mostly because it felt rushed and the Temple itself barely made much of an apperaence....though I've heard that the author was constrained by a world limit and th ...

I'm at work at the moment; so I don't have ready access to my books; but if I remember correctly there was a somewhat similiar trap to cwslyclgh's in White Plume Mountain....a tunnel with panels that ...

Keeping in mind that I know next to nothing about mountains, height and its effects, etc......perhaps they added an extra zero by mistake and just meant 'well over 7000 feet'?

Man, I wish I had known about some of this a few months back when I began an I3-5 campaign; 'shoehorned' into the lands to the SW of Zeif!

I know the modules were put in a "super module" format and ...

Tarleton gives good advice....here's a few more ideas;

If you have access to the 'Iuz the Evil' module; then you could do a 'commando strike' in the closing days of the war; or right afterwards; to ...

I believe that when Mordenkainen founded his circle (circa 571) there were only 8 mages total and it didn't become Mordenkain "AND" the circle of "8" until 574 when Tenser joined.

571 members:

M ...

Hey there Damaja;

One thing I found out is really important is to understand what people mean whey they are talking about Greyhawk History and Cannon...

It's a little tricky; but here's how I ba ...

Hello Damaja;

I have some similiar views to you: I am happily stuck in 2E and have flat out hated all of the 3E stuff and view the 4E stuff as basically an entirely different game....a sort of Worl ...

That works for me too Rasgon as it makes sense, considering the "TSR/Wizards/etc. 'official' Greyhawk cannon"; and it leads to an issue which has been brought up numermos times on this and many other ...

Well personally, and I mean no offense to anyone, particularly not Rob Kuntz, who I could see being justifiably upset over the way his character was treated....but I rather hated the whole "bizzaro" u ...

Sorry bubbagump; I didn't mean to sound prissy or like a jerk; I have a bad habit of just throwing my thoughts down; my apologies if I offended you! Smile

Really cool ship! I don't really play anything on the computer anymore; but it sure is pretty!

One minor thing that has nothing really to do with the subject, but is a pet peeve of mine.....as a Na ...

Well, as I've allready stated numerous times, I can't stand 3rd Edition; and while 4th doesn't seem as bad; it's way too 'war-gamey/mini-centric' for my tastes....something about seeing every stat in ...

There are a couple of places:

For 1st Edition; the back of the Rogue's Gallery has stats for Mordy, Tenser and Bigby (and though they aren't "Circle of Eight", it also has stats for "Citadel of Eig ...

For my own 'vision' of Greyhawk, I have Riggby being born in 518; making him 50 in 568, which is the year I have the events of WG5 occuring. This makes him 73 in 591, which is the current/last year I ...

Adventure: T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil: In my opinion, the BEST campaign adventure TSR ever made, hands-down.

Best Supplement/Accessory: Pretty much anything Carl Sargent wrote; but I find I can' ...

Well, I'll give my opinion, but I give fair warning: I quite frankly can't stand anything from 3rd/3.5 edition, so keep that in mind! Smile

Personally I'd go with either 2nd Edition or Castles ...

Hey....I LIKE Spheres of Influence and Proficiencies! I'm one of those incredibly rare 2nd Edition fans! (We're like albino lab rats....even though we exist, no one can see us! Happy

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My apologies for having worded this badly.....what I meant by "indulging in his new evilness" is precisely the kind of things you mention....

I.e., I too believe he was coming to the "evil" viewpoi ...

Well the lack of activity during the begining of the war can be explained by all of the Circle (save Mordenkainen) recovering from thier "destruction" at the hands of Halmadar-Vecna. Later in the war ...

Well aurdraco just gave a MUCH better response than I could have; he also has access to all those LGG journals, which I don't; since other than the Living Greyhawk Gazetter; I quit D&D when 3rd ed ...

I'm at work at the moment, so don't have access to all of my stuff (I don't have the later Gord books yet anyway, so my apologies there!); but I just wanted to say that I'm one of the few I know who n ...

Yep, she's the one....thanks Cebrion!

I know in several second edition works they explain that 2 Hierarchs survived the ambush/slaughter at the Blood Moon Festival:

Nezmaejan in the Fellreev Forest: he was away at Ixworth at the time o ...

Hmm....I've played T1-4 and run it twice (though the 2nd time it was modified for my home-brew world) and I always thought there was more than enough XP....ended as 4th level after T1 and 7th after TO ...

As others have said; while they do not pay much respect to Greyhawk canon; I think the Paul Kidd novels are great fun to read! Cinders the sentient Hell Hound pelt is one of the best characters to com ...

Wow.....I feel like an 8th grader at a college Physics class... Happy

While I own a fair bit of 1st and 2nd Edition Greyhawk material; I have no 3rd Edition or Living Greyhawk stuff (mostly 'caus ...

Hmm....this is very interesting....

I guess I'll go with the easy (and kind of cowardly, I admit! Happy

) answer and say; well some Flan lived in the Flaness and some across the Mountains.

T ...

I've heard it both ren-ee like you mention and ren-a (long A sound)...I have no idea which is correct....

Also, I was saying that the Oeridians were Mediterranean in appearence (olive-complected, b ...

You know you'er absolutely right....I was remembering that piece with Gary wrong....for some reason, I was 'remembering' that he HAD compared them with Austrailian Aborigines....DOH! Embarassed

Yeah, ...

I did not necessarily mean as a "direct" comparison; but Gary DID base them off of Native American and Aboriginal groups; much as the Oeridians are a kind of Mediterranean peoples (Roman in appearence ...

Well to each thier own; but personally, other than earrings in women, I don't think piercings look good on anybody...but that's just me...

As for the Flan eating thier enemies hearts....I could see ...

I don't remember exactly where I read it; but in one of the books it said something like Mordy was begining to go bald, so he decided to just shave it off entirely. Nothing about the goatee look thoug ...

While I can certainly appreciate all the work and effort that has gone into both 3rd Edition and Pathfinder: personally, I can't stand any of it. To me, its just "World of Warcraft" on paper and I gue ...

Well...I'm late to the party......but......WOW.....that was one HELLUVA detailed review! Nice job Grodog! Happy

Now, I'm not as old-school as Grodog as I didn't really get into Greyhawk until 2n ...

Hello all! Huge Greyhawk and C&C fan! Nice to see I'm not the only one!

I haven't started it yet....(and its looking like it will probably be some time before I do get the chance!)....but I've ...

Hey there!

It seems like you've allready got your campaign going; but a couple of things that popped into my mind as soon as I read your first post was the various Barbarian nations (Snow, Ice and ...

Hey there! Here's a quick question...what year are you setting your adventure in? I'm guessing CY 591 (i.e., the time of the last of the 2nd Edition and first of the 3rd edition stuff)...but, I wanted ...

For my two cents: I think John John hit it right on the head in his post:

Most people in the Flaness are of mixed origins, so the Greater Gods would be the ones most likely to be known/called upon/ ...

Hey all! Brand new to the boards here, but I'm a long time gamer and Greyhawk fan!

-I have played through ToEE once and ran it twice....nobody found Thrommel in any of them....the first time, as a ...