So, some time this year, I want to run the old "Bane of the Shadowborn" adventure from... Letmesee... Dungeon #31.
While it's a Ravenloft adventure, the accompanying novel is set in a "Great Kingdom". Not Greyhawk's, but a generic one.
...And I want to set it in Greyhawk. Obviously, I have some ideas (essentially, like the good German that I am, to set it in or around Innspa), but I was wondering if anybody here had some input for me, too! :)
Oh, personally, of course, I like the GK just as described in "Ivid the Undying", and so, preferrably, I'd set the adventure in 585 CY, not later.
I don't think it would work to set it in Greyhawk, really, and would actually create issues for the adventure as written -- it would be far too easy to escape, for one. There really aren't any parallels between Greyhawk's Great Kingdom and the one in that adventure's background besides the name (for one, the Great Kingdom of that adventure has a state religion centered around the Celtic sun god Belenus)
If you don't want to use the Ravenloft setting as a whole, just set up Shadowborn Manor as some sort of extra-dimensional prison created by the gods to trap Ebonbane.
I've not read the novel, but after digging out and reading the adventure, Kateri Shadowborn screams paladin of Mayaheine to me. What if, rather than the heavy-handed "distant ancestor" trope, the Shadowborn estate were originally located on Mayaheine's home world? That would also tie in nicely with the Pelor/Sol angle.
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