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[LuisCarlos17f]

Scarlet Brotherhood was the last 2nd sourcebook I bought, and I don't regret. It has a lot of background enoughly useful for last editions.

GH is like a comic of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers from 30's, awesome in its time but no so popular now. Today you can sell the same numbers of DC or Marvel comics from 80s because the public is changing. Now is the generation of world of warcraft, manganime and lots os asian MMO. The style of GH now is too "easy to be cloned".

My opinion is GH needs the right videogame. I dare to say FR is popular thank Baldruc Gate and Newerwinter Nights. There were some videogames set in GH but far to be true best-sellers.

* I have readen about special artifacts in GH, if they are together and with a special ritual by the PCs these would cause something like a reboot of the settin.

* Other option is a retcon of the crystal sphere to add more things, like new races from last editions.

Or maybe Vecna did something in the demiplane of dread when become god and after a second grand conjuction now some "dark domains" are in Oerth, or at least in the crystal sphere.

* Any canon information about the other continents from Oerth?

 

[MockingBird]

The Scarlet Botherhood is intriguing. Would the supplement book be worth getting? The box set only has a paragraph about them unless I've missed more. I've only had the pdf for a couple days so its possible.

 

[Mort]

The Scarlet Botherhood is intriguing. Would the supplement book be worth getting? The box set only has a paragraph about them unless I've missed more. I've only had the pdf for a couple days so its possible.

Expansionist human supremacist Nazis is really all you need to know and expand from there.

The supplement is decent and has a good origin and history of the Brotherhood, it has good connective tissue to other parts of Greyhawk - good if you need some starter ideas and motivations. But it's also, for lack of a better word, very 2e. I was never a big fan of the layout and formatting.

That said, it's $10 on overdrive, so worth a read.

 

[Parmandur]

The Scarlet Botherhood is intriguing. Would the supplement book be worth getting? The box set only has a paragraph about them unless I've missed more. I've only had the pdf for a couple days so its possible.

Sure, if the topic interests you: they play a role in the sandbox in Saltmarsh, though that book is set after the events that are being plotted behind the scenes in GoS.

 

[Azzy]

The Scarlet Botherhood is intriguing. Would the supplement book be worth getting? The box set only has a paragraph about them unless I've missed more. I've only had the pdf for a couple days so its possible.

Aside what others have said, the product is both good and bad. If you pick it up cheap, there's plenty to mine for ideas.

 

[Zardnaar]

Expansionist human supremacist Nazis is really all you need to know and expand from there.

The supplement is decent and has a good origin and history of the Brotherhood, it has good connective tissue to other parts of Greyhawk - good if you need some starter ideas and motivations. But it's also, for lack of a better word, very 2e. I was never a big fan of the layout and formatting.

That said, it's $10 on overdrive, so worth a read.

Specifically Suel humans.

 

[CapnZapp]

Expansionist human supremacist Nazis is really all you need to know

You could just say "Nazis" you know.

(All historic Nazis I know of were expansionist, supremacist and human. It's not like there's an option for magical rainbow unicorn Nazis)

 

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...Magical Rainbow Unicorn Nazis

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[grodog]

* Any canon information about the other continents from Oerth?

It depends on your definition of and acceptance of canon, truthfully, but there is some very nice content about Western Oerik and other continents in these sources:

Western Oerik:

• Gygax set some of his Gord the Rogue short stories in lands west of the the Flanaess in "Night Arrant" and much of "Sea of Death" is set in the Sea of Dust; see Chris Siren's Gord's Greyhawk site for summaries of these: Gord’s Greyhawk – Greyhawk Online
• Dragon Magazine Annual #1 featured a map of the rest of western Oerik and a very high-level description of each nation
• François Marcela-Froideval's "Black Moon Chronicles" graphic novels are set in the western lands of Oerik, but in a different form than what TSR published in the Dragon Annual map; see Black Moon Chronicles - Wikipedia
• The WotC Chainmail game was set in Western Oerik's "The Sundered Empire" and they published several sourcebooks on the lands/armies of its peoples; these were written by Chris Pramas and did leverage existing Greyhawk lore competently (unlike many of the 2e-era RGPA and Greyhawk modules)
• Erik Mona wrote several pieces about the western lands of Oerik that were cut from the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer due to space constraints; these were published on Canonfire! @ Canonfire!
• Several fans have similarly written "Beyond the Flanaess" articles on Canonfire! @ Canonfire! including (among my favorites) Tal Meta's Sunelan Coast articles on Canonfire! @ Canonfire! (and map also @ Tal's Maps too) and Joe "Greyhawk Grognard" Bloch's series @ Search Results for “"beyond the flanaess"” – Greyhawk Grognard
• There's some work in the Oerth Journal on these areas too, IIRC: Oerth Journal – Greyhawk Online

Other Continents:

• The map in the Greyhawk folio on page 7 clearly shows two other continental landmasses; see Allan T. Grohe Jr. for the picture
• Rob Kuntz also mentions the "legendary land of Lynn, somewhere across the eastern ocean and many thousands of miles away" in his entry about the Dragonmasters of Lynn, found in his Maure Castle "Chambers of Antiquities" adventure in Dragon #124
• Frank Mentzer's Aquaria continent is mentioned as set across the Solnor Ocean, and has some light-weight ties to the Great Kingdom

The Scarlet Botherhood is intriguing. Would the supplement book be worth getting? The box set only has a paragraph about them unless I've missed more. I've only had the pdf for a couple days so its possible.

Sure, if the topic interests you: they play a role in the sandbox in Saltmarsh, though that book is set after the events that are being plotted behind the scenes in GoS.

Gygax's second Greyhawk novel, Artifact of Evil, focuses quite a bit on the machinations of the Scarlet Brotherhood and is worth digging into, either directly or indirectly via Chris Siren's site I mentioned above.

Allan.