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So I'm looking to start a campaign using the 5E edition of Sunless Citadel and the Forge of Fury, then Segueing into the Lost Laboratory of Kwalish (5E Organized Play adventure reminiscent of Expediti ...

Seekers of the arcane gives a 404 error.

Who are they?

And Thanks Ragson. I had been concerned that the epic scale of the FR HC adventures would be too "big" for a Greyhawk mindset.

Both awe inspiring and incredibly useful!!! Thanks a lot for all of this work!

As an aside, I recall hearing some episodes of that cartoon had some possible obscure GH references in them. If anyone recalls that, let us know.

-G

I have just been motivated to rewatch the ent ...

The closest analogy is the

How would this compare to the Cataclysm from Dragonlance? How would a post sundering Greyhawk look?

I was even part of that thread!!! Shocked

Oh how the memory degenerates.

The demonic focus would also put the drow further from the whole "one big happy family of elves" concept too. And with different vaults worshipping different demons, like Grodog does in his would onl ...

I have not had the opportunity to run or play in Queen of the Demonweb Pits, and do not know how they PCs encounter Lolth or how she is portrayed in that module.

However, I did just finish the no ...

I did it was very helpful!!!

Says right on the entry in the page you linked that it's copyrighted materials.

That said, it appears to be a category, more than any actual text.

Stylin, your problem seems to be one that I have often. I want to know the "Correct" and "True" answer to where something is and how it happened. It comes from my History background.

But serious ...

That brings up an interesting question. Would he know? I mean, numerous sources point to Iuz being "generous" with his procreational materials. Is there some reason to believe he would know instantl ...

Mostly mechanics. I don't think there have been any real plot developments since late 2nd. There's been a number of races added to the choices for player characters, which could be plot or culturally ...

Well having read it more recently, I can say that at least part of it isn't your imagination. She seems to be intentionally making her main character someone who is an offensive, sexist, cowardly and ...

Okay so basically I should have read the books. :)

Thanks for the references!

Strange late at night thoughts. Shocked

So Earth's moon, Luna always presents the same face to Earth. The phases change, but the crater patterns we can see don't.

Do Oerth's moons exhibit the ...

That's actually a fascinating comparison.

So Iuz is decried as a villain by those far from him that risk little in their lands should he be invaded.

Those bordering him have fought him before, ...

I had forgotten about the false Iuz's and with the story occurring at that point in the timeline definitely explains some things.

But now I have a new question. How long did Iuz rule before his imp ...

The Price of Power by Rose Estes in fact. And while I don't really want to get into much discussion of the characters personalities or Rose Estes skills as an author, I did want to pose a couple of qu ...

Okay so regionalism for everyone. It does make sense for the scale that Greyhawk works at. So even if someone WANTED to keep tabs on everyone there just simply isn't the communication infrastructure t ...

And Yet, the Old Faith is connected in a world spanning way, and like you said the Circle of Eight put their noses in everything.

The order of the Gauntlet was a specific subset of the LG and LN ...

A Greyhawk that doesn't grow, dies.

And I think that's a lot of why WotC keeps it around but doesn't put it front and center anymore. You aren't going to please the "purists" and unlike Forgotten ...

Surprisingly enough, the Faithful Quartermasters of Iuz are starting to grow on me. Evil Grin

It smacks a little of the 3rd edition Forgotten Realms' Red Wizards setting up embassies to sell magic items ...

I really love the "Rant of the Malcontent." It demonstrated how at least some partisans should react to Iuz's dealmakers while the majority just shrug their shoulders or avoid them. It highlights th ...

Fascinating. Perhaps this gets right to the point. Similar to the scope of Oerthian heroics being smaller than those in Faerun, maybe the scope of the villainy is less wide ranging as well?

For e ...

Completely right in Greyhawk the gods are gods. I was trying to tease whether there would be wrathful mummies rising to defend the Free City of Greyhawk the next time Iuz stuck his nose in ...

So there would be a difference between the Gods inGreyhawk versus the Gods of Greyhawk?
As far as conjunctive phrases, no, there's no difference between the two grammatically.
Unless one wants to d ...

The short story "The Weird Occurrence in Odd Alley" from Gary Gygax's Gord the Rogue collection Night Arrant is essentially this. Gord and his friend Chert discover a mysterious portal in the City o ...

So there would be a difference between the Gods inGreyhawk versus the Gods of Greyhawk?

Supposed I wanted to have players take a trip to Sigil, take in the sights, and return home to Oerth an experienced traveler, are there any adventures the worthies here would recommend? I'm not lookin ...

And that's okay.

Looking at the hardcovers for Fifth edition (Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Yawning Portal (mostly) excepted, of course) I'm struck by how world shaking all of the events are. Shocked

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I will definitely be looking into the Knights of the Hart. I wanted an "international" flavor to the group. Would it be appropriate for a lone member of that order to be investigating possible threats ...

Cool! Thank you for your insight! The not bred in captivity thing is a very interesting wrinkle.

So while he might have, and he probably knows someone who does, him not having one wouldn't be str ...

So I was reading Master Wolf and there's only passing reference to the Tiger Nomads, but the reference seems to indicate that the Tiger Nomads keep tigers as hunting companions much as the Wolf Nomads ...

Princes of the Apocalypse D&D 5E hardcover recommends the following replacement:

The Harpers = The Circle of Eight
The Order of the Gauntlet = The Church of St. Cuthbert (Trithereon might b ...

Is it possible the appellation "The Old" is ironic? Meaning that while Iuz has a form that bears the appearance of an old man, the Flan are quite aware that he is a recent ascendant to godly might? A ...

Okay All of that together makes some more sense. Would a mix of both work?

For example, Iuz the Cambion, has actually been around for centuries, (Iggwilv's adventures in the 300's would still give ...

The WoG boxed set indicates that Iuz is commonly worshiped in common areas, and among the Flan. Is this meant to indicate something closer to "recognize and having a Deity's power" than veneration?
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Were there any novels using Vecna? None seem to come up with the Greyhawk novels I've been able to find.

I will look that up immediately! :O I'm feeling that I have my rose colored glasses on when I look at Oerth. Fascinating.

So basically, Iuz isn't in open warfare with anyone, and the Scarlet Brotherhood isn't exerting direct military control over the sea princes and such?

I've always been confused by Iuz. How do th ...

So I just got Ghosts of Saltmarsh, and reading through it the adventures seem fairly timeline neutral as far Greyhawk goes. However, some posters on this forum have indicated that the adventures appea ...

Really enjoying your player's guide, but looking at the races, I note that there's no mention of forest gnomes in that section. Are forest gnomes unknown in Greyhawk?

What kind of Jokes would be told in a tavern?

I want to have a funny background patron with a list of jokes to rattle off in the background (or perhaps just the punchlines that the party walks in o ...

OOPs Sorry! I tried searching but couldn't find it.
Thanks for the Redirect.

So in the Flaness, if anyone is caught fighting unarmed are they assumed to be of the Scarlet Brotherhood, with all the rights and privileges thereof?

In other words, are there other schools of mon ...

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5. Also, armies are expensive. Since medieval/fantasy warfare in Greyhawk is usually fought for limited ends (Greyhawk Wars not withstanding) armies have to be carefully husbanded and not wasted. ...

Start small finish big. :D An army of Wererats!

I needed reminded of the power difference between adventurers and Soldiers. Especially when the terrain makes it strategically advantageous to use ...

So I'm trying to come up with a 1-20 adventure chain broken up into Tiers (1-5, 5-10, 10-15, and 15-20). I want to have some kind of connection running all the way through with a big boss at the end t ...

Well that makes it clear as mud! Shocked

As is often the case Rasgon casually drops off the answer and it's so much more than what I expected.

So many places to be!

Is G ...

Okay to start off Apparently there are people living on Oerth's moon?

Also there's two moons? Shocked

Never did Spelljammer, what exactly does a Crystal sphere contain? Embarassed

Is there anyw ...

This is fascinating.

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But are there flying cats? That place with the floppy hat wizard and the musical theatre group on a power trip have flying cats.

:D

So I just did a search for Greyhawk. You know, just to see what would turn up.

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Horned Society next.

Something in the Lolth discussion caught my attention.

Namely: What happened recently to increase Lolth's power? All those invasions of other worlds in Q1. While she was defeated on Oerth, on man ...

I thought R.A. Salvatore engineered her apotheosis through book sales...

too soon? rolleyes

cool! Thanks for the gooogle tip! I didn't know about that.

Especially Greyhawk City? I'd really like to know what events are celebrated and the dates (holidays, memorials, god-days, etc...)

Have you checked the wiki at all? There's a category titled "Greyh ...

Yay! Eh Publishing inconsistency can be used as fodder for rumors!

"So and So really died at this time, but the government wants your to believe...."

"They can't possible be invading Friendly ...

Let me know if you find these useful.

Yes they will be helpful, even if only by guiding where I go with my campaign.

Thanks for all the help everyone!

I agree that they seem to have been in ...

Oh wow. I Shocked

I will need to read that source deeply.

There's so much!

Iuz the Evil; Hierarch Nezmajen (13 lvl Priest of Nerull), Escaped Bloodmoon Massacre. Resides in the subterranean ruin of Darkpool. Retains the clandestine loyalty of Jhanser's Lands; Kindell and Ixw ...

20,000 souls for an undead army?

excellent Cool

Also, I'd seen many mentions that the Horned Society used fiends to keep the peace, and I though the referenced them as diabolical, ...

Thank you very much!!! Now I just need to see if I can track down any of those sources!

Sounds like there's plenty of room to flesh out a dark network bent on revenge.

Also the Nerull angle is ...

Is there a link to this mythical guide?

I've read a little about the Horned Society but all of the information seems to be copied from the same source.

To Wit: The Horned Society was a group that took over part of Iuz's lands while he ...

Okay so the smart way is to use one of the existing level one adventures. :D Cool thanks for the heads up!

So if you were wanting to start a level one campaign in Greyhawk with a bunch of level 1 hicks from out in the VERY RURAL areas that will eventually get to the Free City of Greyhawk, where would you p ...

I voted. May it have more impact than voting Democratic in Kansas. Razz

So does all this celestial information on Greyspace come from Spelljammer books or some other source?

I just got the Indiana Jones series for Black Friday too. :) I got some watching and planning to do!

This is very cool! Now I want to do an adventure trying to retrieve gold from the ruins, and maybe liberate a religious artifact. With a group of Hobgoblins on the other side trying to retrieve the ...

I've really enjoyed playing in it so far in the group I'm playing with. We are playing though Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and aside from close to no treasure so far, it has gone really well. We had o ...

From what I have seen, the hobgoblins are usually presented with the military organization many human nations would envy. What forces in the Flanaess keep the hobgoblins from carving a piece of it fo ...

Where did they say anything about Tharzidun? I've been trying to find out what upcoming projects wotc had in mind, but all I can find is articles about the dmg. :(

Two hours of the cartoon would rock. Just have to make sure you cast Venger and Dungeonmaster correctly. Razz

And Tiamat!!! Must not forget Tiamat!

So how do you handle situations where monsters require special handling to kill or injure them, for example trolls with fire or acid, Lycanthropes with silver, or Staking and otherwise dismembering va ...

I think there's room for a story based in Greyhawk as a movie, but they need to treat it like marvel does there movies. Don't make the first one about Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight. Make it a ...

They stand to one side and applaud. Shocked

I second putting rasgon on the payroll. He seems to have forgotten more of Oerth than I will ever know. Cool

I understand from 505 CY to 570 CY Iuz along with a number of demigods were trapped by Zagig. During this time how were prayers by those demigod's priests answered? Iuz seems to be greatly limited b ...

Cool, it looks very informative. Thank you for pointing it out!

Not sure how to hide things with spoiler tags on this one but the adventure is almost older than me, and there's been a pc game based on it . . . But in case you haven't played Temple of Elemental Evi ...

I guess for me, Pantheon is a collection of gods that evolved together, whether or not they get along. In the sense that some mythologies have conflict inherent to them, along a good versus evil or l ...

Okay I've updated my spreadsheet with the invaluable information from DMPrata (Really great job man!)

Down to only 3 that don't have pantheons assigned (Heward, Keoghtom and Vathris) and I can see ...

For those following my earlier posts, you may remember I was trying to trim the number of deities in my Greyhawk campaign by combining most of the racial gods into deities that shared alignment and su ...

I really like the idea of Warforged and Dragonborn on the opposite sides of the wars that lead to the Twin Cataclysms. Warforged are buried in the Dry Steppes, forgotten and left behind, but cast int ...

Thanks for posting the link, great ideas there!

That should play well off the Scarlet Brotherhood's purity ideals. :)

So where would Dragonborn from 5th edition fit in Greyhawk? Half dragons are one thing, Dragonborn, with a large enough population to form a culture are another. They could easily be newcomers fro ...

I'm guessing this is the right forum for this.

So what are likely repercussions of a sudden and unexplained disappearance of Mordenkainen, the Circle of 8, and Iuz? Who are the secondary world sha ...

I'm guessing that the DMG when it finally gets here will have an idea, but until then, for those gms crafting your own adventures, what kind of magic items are your players finding, and at what level ...

So in the mountain Range cutting off the bright Desert from everybody? That would work. Thanks for all the responses everybody.

Normally I'd say that was the case, but In the Greyhawk I'm working with most if not all of the Racist (Racial) gods aren't around. There is no dwarf pantheon, or Orc pantheon or Lizard folk pantheon ...

I'm trying to come up with a background for a dwarven monk in my setting and I've settled on being part of the Order of the Glory Everlasting, of Heironeous. The only problem is that while I've found ...