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Will there be Greyhawk book setting for D&D 5th edition? If not - what would be needed to make fan setting materials? Because I think I will prepare long term game. Or at least return to our start ...

So many of you know about this iniative, others probably wonder what it is. Greyhawk Reborn is legacy of Living Greyhawk campaing from 3(.5) edition times, massive multi-DM game run to move Greyhawk s ...

Buddy of mine found online map of Flanaess, with option to zoom. Finally I can see little towns in Sterich! Cool

http://ghmaps.net/onlinemap/onlinemap.html

Rather than involve time travel, the most efficient thing IMO is to adjust the dates in the Istivin story arc.

But how, as every Sterich NPC in game has mentioned that 15 years before there was a b ...

My thought on the players who want to bog things down in Istvin, perhaps this druidess has knowledge the dark elves are preparing to move soon, so there's no time to waste screwing around in town. Eit ...

Flint. thanks for ideas! As to show full picture the druidess is from Ashmeet circle from Hornwood, but she left when she was (sort of ) accused of murdering someone she didn't killed. It was some yea ...

Notice: I want this topic to be general place to go to for help with wierd team connection. Feel free to add yours problems, we could help each other. Cool

Here is mine - I've got new playere ...

I'm granting the permission, but would propose to write to Frank about it. And I only change a logo - sheet is mostly Franks, only helped with some bugs in it. It also been changed and made in higher ...

Thanks, smillan! I'm just need to decide what is best House for demoness to imposter as daughter - Oliphant is looking as interstingly mysteriious, Astarikan is good with "once mighty house, now patri ...

I know that officially Sterich is ruled by Council of Barons, but can't found what players are there - I need one of barons for story idea connected to his daughter... Evil Grin

But I need her House as ...

But I am confused.... My group have also be on the review playtest packets, and it has been my understanding that D&D Next will be using a Forgotten Realms setting
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Yes, default set ...

Unless you already have it established in your timeline that the events of Queen of Spiders has already happened, the time travel would not be necessary. Avoid the added complication if possible.

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So as many know by now I run my Istivin game in 591 CY and want to send my PCs in to past, to year 576/580CY ( still can't decide on this Confused

) to run them "Queen of Spiders" supermodule. The thing ...

So best date for GDQ is 580 CY, but in what time is best to start - begining of winter, mid spring, end of summer? I want to time travel my players so precise date would be great. Cool

I now co ...

So best date for GDQ is 580 CY, but in what time is best to start - begining of winter, mid spring, end of summer? I want to time travel my players so precise date would be great. Cool

Here are non-Facebook links:

Frank's Sheet - http://www.4shared.com/office/aNjdXMHX/DD_Greyhawk_Version.html

Mine's Sheet -
http://www.4shared.com/office/cydlpLdz/DD_Greyhawk_Version_2.html

I see the most common theme there is Warfoged should be "artifacts" before Twin Cataclysms. Very intersting idea is also they relation to Scarlet Brotherhood - next good argument to use one of this in ...

Yay, next Sterich adventure to torment my players! Evil Grin

So I have working with guys on D&D Next Facebook group on redoing sheet's to match finall rules packets. We are now ending remaking basic sheet and adding fillable forms on to it. But we got idea ...

So in our D&D Next Facebook groupSteading of the Hill Giant Chief. They remade characters with last public playtest packet and added Warforged Fighter to the party.

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I found great randomization site - http://donjon.bin.sh/

Great are especially Random Dungeon Generator that makes encounters, treusres and even great maps for DM and players. AWESOME!

So in next session I need at least some kind of dungeon, to put my ex-PCs to final rest and introduce new PC that is comming to party. Thing is - I'm empty on this - I know I want to put it in plains ...

In D&D Next there is news...

In WoTC email notifying us about last packet there's a new #dndnext adventure announced In Dungeon 430 "Battle of Emridy Meadows"

Real ToEE is back! Cool

Got that! Now waiting for next new team to send them to ToEE... Evil Grin

So I'm mkaing changes in my party and ne w player is thinking about taking Monk as his PC. The thing is I'm rather reclusive to add them to my Flanaess. I like the class on general basis and wouldn't ...

The first thing I would establish is the fact that you'll our friends. The other thing is to say your playing the game to spend time with your friends. Nothing in the game should be taken so serious t ...

I have very hard topic to discuss, guys. Third time in one year my gaming group want to split over roleplaying issues. People taking they PCs roleplaying problems and argue, and they end friendships. ...

WHY?!

So I use this map ( Darlene's If remeber corectly) for my games. The info I need is how "long" is one hex, so I could calculat how fast PCs will travel on it - any help? Map don't have proper scale. ...

So once more me and my Sterich's problems. Smile

In party I got two arcane spellcasters ( called Mages in Next ), one of it is member of "Istivin's Mage Guild", other would very like to join. I ...

set in Bissel, so that might be a spot in-between Sterich and the Yatils for something to take place; is Vanity, from Dungeon # 93. It's 3.5 and built for 5th level players, but you could probably mod ...

Then, once the PCs are around 7th–8th level, a number of Greyhawk fans have recommended running S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (in the Yatils) before the GDQ 1–7 se ...

The thing is I have in my Sterich's history two major events descirbed in Living Greyhawk Gazetteer and Istivin: City of Shadows from Dungeon #117:

1. Lolth's put a black hemisphere on Keolant Keep ...

A question is in the topic name - is "Queen of Spiders" supermodule based on war with Giand King Galmorr in 584 CY? Or maybe without timeline?

Because I preper to run it and now I got 591 CY with Q ...

Having said that, GH did grab Isle of Dread and whatnot. So the precedent is there and shouldn't be too alarming.

Isle of Dread was totally in GH placed in playtests?

Info is from comment section on D&D Next Facebook groupFrank Foulis They did not mention any products at Gencon or PAX.

If you have Dragonspear there is mention that the Temple of Elemental Evi ...

Temple of Elemental Evil returns in 2014 as D&D Encounters for D&D Next - yay! Only it will be placed in Forgotten Realms - uuuuu... Sad

In Sterich, the paladin might more likely be a member of the Knights of Dispatch, a branch of the Knights of the Watch dedicated to fighting the humanoids and giants who overwhelmed Geoff and Sterich ...

Thanks for answer

The Knights of the Watch are the only significant knightly order in the region. IMC, at least, a 5th-level paladin would be a low-ranking knight in the order. YMMV.

Aren't som ...

So new player want to join us and he will play 5th level Paladin. He chosen Soldier Background, whitch seguest character partake in it on real front. In camapign world we had 7 year before ( time is 5 ...

vestcoat could you descibe in more detail what are the runes and were can be found info about them?

So my boyfrined finally done this, and on next session he starts with new, shiny blood red gem in his eye socket. Evil Grin

What's even more intersting, the adventure now turns to the devils invading bi ...

I don't agree wtih OP - Book of Vile Darkness was rather good one, compared to first two D&D movies. It's not on the level to be compared to LotR or Game of Thrones, but it was very "dnd-ish", wit ...

It wasn't just the Aerdi. Istivin has a circus also (Istivin: City of Shadows, DNG #117), that used to host bloodsport, before giving way to more civilized competitions. That was before a resurgence o ...

But does it describe the invasion of Giants with humanoids on game country and showing off Lolth in large city?

Still, a quick google search can often find what you're looking for.

Not for Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun... Cry

But there are very cool graphics for Temple of Elemental Evil in latest Drago ...

So I have unusual request - have some seen newer graphcs for old modules? I very like classical adventures, but also I'm very found of artworks of 3ed books. Would be very pleased with things for QDS ...

Dungeon #104 had an article on variant paladins of Greyhawk, including paladins of Hextor.

Sidenote: In Dragon #306 there is rest of Greyhawk paladins. Cool

Greyhawk not, but now I understand I plan to make them time travel! Cool

You see, I run game in 591 CY and all we talk in-game is that there was 18 years ago Lolth attack on Istivin leaving darkn ...

When arguing on WoTC forum about Paladin class in D&D Next I got rather interesting idea for NPC - he would be now Paladin of Hextor, once serving Heironeous. I'm intersting what circumstances cou ...

So gnome community is diffrent than this presented in WG4 - maybe becuase of events in module?

Both adventures are set in the Yatil Mountains, north of Bissel. While searching for the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (S4), the party may find a gnome clanhold in the area. At some point in the party's a ...

Thanks! I will probably go with your seed, as our wizard... excuse me, mage Evil Grin

- is after Demonomicon for solving Istivin's Lolth mystery. As there will be Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun maybe I ...

Strictly speaking, S4 happens before WG4, but it doesn't really matter which one you run first. They're two different dungeons in the same general area.

Could you mention similiatires or common thr ...

The Timeline and many other multi-part articles on CF could use a PDF compilation, it's true. While it's a cool idea and all, each author still owns the rights to their work so it's up to them if they ...

I saw this on the site as 3 part article, but was hoping maybe someone compiled it in to one big PDF or something? Would me much easier to read then...

Then, once the PCs are around 7th–8th level, a number of Greyhawk fans have recommended running S4 Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun (in the Yatils) before the GDQ 1–7 se ...

You might want to look at the 3.5E book Hoardes of the Abyss.

I alredy used a description of Demonwebs Layer in this book as soposed material from Demonmicon on scroll they finded in Caves of Chaos ...

So you proposed to use this:
*Demonomicon of Iggwilv
*Tome of Black Heart
*Book of Vile Darkness

Yes? And from this what would be most accurate for Lolth info? Demonomicon abriged copy?

Lanthorn, you didn't get me - I don't need supplemnts for me as DM to know more about Lolth. I need books in game world, written by NPCs. And I need at least one about Lolth itself, one about Abyss, a ...

I will look in to this modules, but also I need couple of in game books about Abyss, demons and maybe Lolth. My PCs found cultist library in Caves of Chaos modul and want to desipher them. I can make- ...

So I decided to run "Queen of Spiders" supermodule, escpecially as our game is in Sterich. The thing is, my PCs now go to 4th level and I want to run short episode in Istivin, March Sterich's capitol. ...

It's in the Istivin: City of Shadows article; not the adventure itself. Page 43. In 593 CY or whenever the adventure takes place, he is Captain General of the Istivin Watch, although from the NPC prof ...

Yeah, I looked up that chart in the Next package, and it seems really off to me. I did a hike last weekend very mountainous terrain, up then back down. We averaged about 1.10 miles an hour. That was m ...

Queen of the Spiders also has generic encounter tables for Sterich.

I will surely look in to this, as "Queen of the Spiders was ranked as the single greatest Dungeons & Dragons adventure of all ...

So one hex is about 50 miles?

Each hex on the Darlene map equals 10 leagues (which is about 30 miles).

SirXaris

Here it is Travel Pace table.

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/2356/z9u0. ...

From the southern edge of the Stark Mounds it's more like 90 miles. If you were on the edges up near the Oyt Wood or on the northern edges of the Stark Mounds that would be about 210 miles.

So one ...

I am not familiar with D&D next, but I lean towards Lanthorn's method of using the pre-made random encounter tables to generate critters, combined the tables in either the original boxed set or Fr ...

First all, as special encounters I was thinking more about , or like you meat Elminster on beginning of Baldur's Gate. This kind of thing.

On "normal" encounters I have to this day: bugbears and og ...

Hi, long time no see. So I continued my Sterich campaing, and PCs ended Caves of Chaos. They decided to travel to capitol, that is - Istivin - from the Stark Mounds. As it was counted bu us as about 2 ...

Hi! I have idea for cool evil half-elf bounty huntress as villian for two of mine PCs. Only the logicial for her would be some female Suel name, as her mother is/was(???) Scarlet Brotherhood citizen t ...

Newest update to D&D Next adds bestiary for Against the the Slave Lords module collection. As my players are in Sterich now, I think about proposing this classic for them to play next. Wink

-I don't have the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer with me, but in CY 591, Sterich is still pushing back the Giant invasions (I don't know if there's a canonical "forward line of troops", or if it's up to the ...

-Are you sure you don't mean Hornwood? That makes sense geographically.

Yes, I wrongly readed english map.

If so, I'd add that the High Druid 's vision would have to be pretty convincing to him ...

As I said if you want I have some material which I can convert from 3.x to 5th.... Wink

Always happy to hear/read about it. Cool

If you have some big questions or needs - just ask, we will d ...

As D&D Next free playtestsGreyhawk campaign setting. I have about year of experiences with materials on my own games. Any questions and ideas are welcome! Cool

To capture the feel of Great Kingdom and life in it ( or any big monarchy in Greyhawk for this ) - watch the Game of Thrones series / read Songs of Fire and Ice books. It's closest to "realism fantasy ...

1) What year is it?

591 CY, as in Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. The time is 16th of Flocktime. action take place in Stark Mounds and Sterich.

2) Where is she from?

She comes from Hornwood, close ...

To all of you guys - this topic is golden, keep it up! Cool

As to subtopic why there isn't any Good Powers in monsters pantheons - maybe they are killed/destroyed any time they can be created ...

So my 11th year niece joind our D&D Next Greyhawk game. I need help with making some kind of good quest back story for her. She choose the Wood Elven Druid, looking for shapeshifting powers, so we ...

Have the gem only activate under certain conditions similar to lycanthropy and during these times, inducing great paranoia and envy towards everyone around him. Slowly inducing an alignment change and ...

As we ending Caves of Chaos I think about maybe some city episode in Istvin. There I think about thicking plot with Black Brotherhood - and maybe even showing proper Scarlet Brotherhood in game. So he ...

If you'd rather go with a role-playing curse, Cebrion's suggestion is good. Of, you can place demonic and devilish influences in places the PCs would never guess, but the PC with True Seeing notices ...

Well I am pretty sure I speak for many other DMs here. If your bf's character wants to do that, fine, but there is no question I would rule out it does absolutely nothing :)

Thinking about it, but ...

Don't knowing where to put this topic I plased it here. If wrongly, moderator feel free to restick it to somewhere else.

But to the problem - on today session in Caves of Chaos my boyfriend found a ...

First - Scarlet Brotherhood cast system demands that you from beginning be risen as "caste class" member. So even if later in you life you can multiclass, you begins your start as base class. The prob ...

So I look for this magazine - where can it be found? Are they putted in to Dungeon's issues?

To me Ardy= Byznatium, Keoland = Holy Roman Empire ( German one Cool

), but for everyone his idea. Wink

The current Father of Obedience -- head of the Scarlet Brotherhood -- is Korenth Zan, 17th level Magic User. (The Scarlet Brotherhood, page 5.)

Of course, it could be someone else . . . "today." I ...

Lengthy reply, but most everything I have is from the linked adventures Touch of the Abyss (Dungeon # 117), Shadow of the Abyss (Dungeon # 118), and Wrath of the Abyss (Dungeon # 119), and the accompa ...

So my problem is this - in 2nd AD&D you could added special classes as variants of core ones and Greyhawk books were written as such. For example, I now looked through the Scarlet Brotherhood and ...

rasgon, many times I come to think you should write new Greyhawk setting book if it will be done - great stuff on religions, man!

Any times I read about this cataclysm I got idea ( mostly inherited from my Mage: the Awakening games Wink

) that this "colorless fire" is radiation - burnings, the dissolution of tissues, etc - and ...

I read now Scarlet Brotherhood for 2nd AD&D and there is idea that some clerics favor whole pantheons of gods ( like "Suel gods"), not only one particuilar. As mostly 3(.5)ed player I found this l ...

Now, that would premise that an SBer thought they'd failed. I wouldn't see that in CY591, but maybe they figure they gave it their best shot, and everything is destined to go down the tubes from there ...

Mystic-Scholar, thanks for links, I will read them in spare time. Cool

The Black Brotherhood was reintroduced in the LGG for DM's who wanted to remain consistent with the Gygax novels. Thus, t ...

The Scarlet Brotherhood -- as a whole -- does not even recognize Tharizdun as one of their Gods and does not support his worship. Any rumors that they do worship him are just that . . . rumors. The Sc ...

This topic is goldmine for guys playing in Sterich! Cool

So I ask where to find more infro about March and it's nobility outside of Living Greyhawk Gazteer?

Sub-topic: How distinct are cult of Tharizdun and Scarlet Brotherhood? What are differences, what similarities? And any idea hot to connect at least one of this groups with events in Forge of Fury?
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As to the Spiral of Decay and the inverted Ziggurat, a quick read of my Caerdiralor stories -- archived here on Canonfire! on the "Articles" page under Stories & Fiction -- you would know I have n ...