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This isn't true at all. The world of the comic is called (at least in the English translation I read) Earth, not Oerth. Oerth has two moons, while the Black Moon Chronicles has only a single moon. The creator didn't have, or need, any permission from TSR. François Marcela-Froideval did work...

Yeah, from 591 CY to 2000 CY. Although the author, Philip Athans, likely originally intended an earlier date, since it's said to be 395 years after the marriage of Duke Karll and Countess Belissica, two characters who were alive in 591 CY. I think it's likely that the article was originally set...

Because I'm not talking about intent there. I'm talking about what the canon actually states. I think you have an ethical responsibility, in the service of clearly informing your readers, to distinguish between the two. This is the same logic as stating "Gygax has said he envisioned the Flan as...

I mean, they called it Nippon, it's no mystery what the intent was. But intent isn't canon. Canon is two sentences, one of which notes that it probably isn't called Nippon. The fact is, it's an archipelago on the equator across the sea from "India," separated from "China" by a massive...

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er, triple post

Yeah, loosely, although I don't think they're (as portrayed in The Scarlet Brotherhood accessory) meant to parallel any specific African culture closely. However, David Howery's "The Dark Continent" in Dragon #189 was Hepmonaland in his original campaign, and it does include cultures that are...

It's more of a "this is what happened," though you might borrow aspects of the magical anomaly there that the Horn of Change created.

The Mighty Servant of Leuk-o was detailed on Wizards of the Coast's website. Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, page 205, gives statistics for one of the Servant's arms, which has apparently become separated from the rest of it. Baba Yaga's Hut appears in the Pathfinder adventures The...

Seems pretty well covered to me. You might want to note that Quah-Nomag is also mentioned in Book of Vile Darkness and Fiendish Codex I.

Yeah, the comic doesn't mention Orcus. But here we go, "Return to the Tomb of Horrors" from Dragon #249 says this: "While alive, Acererak built an unholy temple to a now deceased power. When the project neared completion, he slew every worker, excavator, and consecrating priest who had...

The answer is kind of both. It's a sequel to Return to the Tomb of Horrors, referencing its events but taking place about a century later. However, it uses fourth edition gods rather than Greyhawk gods and uses the 4th edition cosmology rather than the 2nd edition cosmology that Return to the...

From what I've read of Gygax's playing style, I strongly suspect that both the portable hole and the well of many worlds are based directly on Bugs Bunny's portable hole. The well is really just a portable hole that connects to many other planes rather than a single, consistent extradimensional...

What, specifically, are you curious about? Perhaps we can speculate.

My problem with the idea of outer planes "bleeding" together is that it makes gate-towns less important. Why use the creative and complex portals found throughout the planes if you can cross planar boundaries through sheer force of will? You still might want to stop in the various planar trading...

Oh, thanks! I didn't know about that one (Edit: that's an archdevil issue! I should have remembered). (Double edit: Oh, he's the same guy who wrote the article on Old Dwarvish) Extremely cool.

Errr... kind of. Not really. The Planescape Campaign Setting, Manual of the Planes, and all other 1st and 2nd edition sources said there were portals that connected the various planes of the Great Wheel. There are also planar paths like the Styx, the Oceanus, Mount Olympus, and Yggdrasil...

Nope. As far as I know, the only lexicons to be published were: We've never really gotten a orc-themed sourcebook in D&D, which seems odd to me. You might want to check out Denizens of Earthdawn Volume Two from FASA and Orkworld by John Wick, though. Using the lexicon in Orkworld, I see the...

Perhaps, but I'd argue that Malcanthet and Pale Night were among the most important additions to the canon. Malcanthet has disappeared in 4e and Pale Night is only incidentally mentioned in the present edition, but for a brief period Malcanthet seemed as important as any of the classic demon...