D&D (2024) Check Out The New Dungeon Master's Guide's Greyhawk Map

Greyhawk is the 'sample setting' provided in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, and it is illustrated with a massive hex map by the awesome Mike Schley.

 

[Scott Christian]

Thunder rift is part if the Mystara campaign setting, located somewhere in Karameikos. See the ‘escape from thunder rift’ adventure.

Thank you. I will check it out.

 

[Dion D Ritter]

Give me Middle Earth or the Age of Conan! Though, Greyhawk is cool. At least with Greyhawk you don't have to worry about the DM doing something Non-Middle Earthish or something stupid with the hyborian age, like puting starships in those worlds!

Spoke to soon. Describing orcs as anything other than disgusting creatures is stupid. In every type of fantasy novel I read, they are always described as monsters. I don't ever see orcs mingling freely with other people in any fantasy setting. I guess orcs could rule disgusting countries, like Mordor or Iran. There must be some countries like Mordor or Iran in Greyhawk. Anybody up for some orc hunting?

Let's hear some Orc jokes! Did you hear the one about the orc, the elf and the dwarf? The three were together one day in Mordor contemplating what to do. It was a blistering hot day, the kind of heat when your skin can't breathe, a very stressful day. So the elf who was the tallest and smartest said lets play a game, "the person who collects the most ping pong balls wins, that should lead us to a most cooling adventure." After contemplating the possibility of cooling down in the scorching heat, they all agreed. So they all went in seperate directions in the search of ping pong balls. The elf came back first with the first ping ball, it was adorned with various types of fine art collected from the coolest places on earth. He said to himself, 'this ping pong ball looks so good it's one in a million, I have to win'! Then the dwarf come back a little latter, since he was so strong he acquired a massive amount of ping pong balls, acquired in the most deepest, coolest dungeons in the world. The Orc never came back. Just when the elf and dwarf decided the orc was never coming back, the orc came strolling down the road carrying two enormous sacks The elf and the dwarf wondered 'what took him so long'? They figured, there must be a million ping pong balls in those two sacks. So they said "it's about time. How many ping pong balls did you get"? The orc said, "ping pong balls? I thought you said King Kong Balls"

 

[Umbran]

I guess orcs could rule disgusting countries, like Mordor or Iran.

Mod note:
It is unclear how you got the idea that insulting people like that would be found acceptable on this site.

It is not. You are done in this discussion.

 

[SteveC]

Great map, that looks really nice.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

NGL, Greyhawk > Faerun/Sword Coast

I think it's because I like gulfs/mediterranean sea type bodies of water (ie, surrounded mostly by land)

 

[Yenrak]

I was looking at the map and my initial reaction was: “Oh, wow. They’ve gone back to before Narwell was changed to Warwell and the Pomarj conquered the Wild Coast up to Fax.”

But now think about it, I’m pretty sure those were things that happened in my campaign and not in the published versions.

Things I can’t remember: did the Knights of the Holy Shielding lose their territory in Greyhawk Wars or was that my home brew? In my game they became mercenaries and bankers but I’m like 95% sure that was my own idea.

 

[Demetrios1453]

NGL, Greyhawk > Faerun/Sword Coast

I think it's because I like gulfs/mediterranean sea type bodies of water (ie, surrounded mostly by land)

It's annoying that the Sword Coast has the most boring coastline in the setting. Once you go further south or, especially, go to the Sea of Fallen Stars, things get much more interesting.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

It's annoying that the Sword Coast has the most boring coastline in the setting. Once you go further south or, especially, go to the Sea of Fallen Stars, things get much more interesting.

It's why I set my one homebrew campaign in Turmish, on the Sea of Fallen Stars

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I was looking at the map and my initial reaction was: “Oh, wow. They’ve gone back to before Narwell was changed to Warwell and the Pomarj conquered the Wild Coast up to Fax.”

But now think about it, I’m pretty sure those were things that happened in my campaign and not in the published versions.

Things I can’t remember: did the Knights of the Holy Shielding lose their territory in Greyhawk Wars or was that my home brew? In my game they became mercenaries and bankers but I’m like 95% sure that was my own idea.

Is the answer something found in the 1e Greyhawk Gazeteer?

 

[Staffan]

It's annoying that the Sword Coast has the most boring coastline in the setting. Once you go further south or, especially, go to the Sea of Fallen Stars, things get much more interesting.

Yeah, ocean coasts are kind of dull – particularly if there isn't a lot of contact with something on the other side of the ocean. Golarion and the 13th Age setting has the right idea there – build the setting around a Mediterranean analogue. Or, as you say, the Sea of Fallen Stars in the Forgotten Realms.

That's one of the few flaws I find in Eberron's design – there's no Mediterranean. The closest thing you get is Scion's Sound, but that's more of a Black Sea. It also means that the pirate nation is off to the side instead of smack in the middle of things, which doesn't make any sense.