D&D General Greyhawk fans - How to fit older modules with Age of Worms

[earthsea_wizard]

I am running AoW at the moment and want to expand it into a larger Greyhawk campaign using the early modules. I'm not a super stickler for timelines but it needs to be able to make basic sense. I know Dragotha is just a quick mention in White Plume Mountain and Kyuss doesn't have much of anything written about him until this adventure, so I figure I'm good there. There are the small details like dates on the gravestones outside Diamond Lake but I'm not sweating those small details.

I'm looking at either continuing the timeline from AoW but trying to still use the AD&D material OR placing AoW at an earlier point in history.

 

[MGibster]

I'm kind of looking into the same thing. Where do you even find the Age of Worms adventures?

 

[earthsea_wizard]

I'm kind of looking into the same thing. Where do you even find the Age of Worms adventures?

The only way is PDFs of Dragon Magazine.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Technically Dungeon magazine, not Dragon

Though I think Dragon had some articles on other campaign-related stuff.

 

[Distracted DM]

Wow, what timing! I started running AoW a week or two ago- would love to expand on it with some modules and make it a little more sandboxy.

If you look around online there are some pretty comprehensive, complete AoW docs. Also look for Age of Worms Overloaded for the extra content that didn't make it into the magazines.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Maybe even PDFs aren’t an option today?

paizo.com - Store / Books / Dungeon / Products / Issues / Age of Worms Adventure Path

So ahem the files, or eBay the issues?

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I am running AoW at the moment and want to expand it into a larger Greyhawk campaign using the early modules. I'm not a super stickler for timelines but it needs to be able to make basic sense. I know Dragotha is just a quick mention in White Plume Mountain and Kyuss doesn't have much of anything written about him until this adventure, so I figure I'm good there. There are the small details like dates on the gravestones outside Diamond Lake but I'm not sweating those small details.

I'm looking at either continuing the timeline from AoW but trying to still use the AD&D material OR placing AoW at an earlier point in history.

A Greyhawk module that ties in directly to Age of Worms but is a later one, is Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk. A few of the Greyhawk NPCs make a return appearance (Tirra, Loris Raknian, Khellek).

 

[earthsea_wizard]

A Greyhawk module that ties in directly to Age of Worms but is a later one, is Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk. A few of the Greyhawk NPCs make a return appearance (Tirra, Loris Raknian, Khellek).

I do imagine I will throw that one in soon, but beyond that I am not sure what to do with the older AD&D modules and how they would conflict, which I want to incorporate.

I know @Snarf Zagyg and @grodog are local Greyhawk afficiandos, paging them for some ideas. Pretty sure @haakon1 runs a lot of Greyhawk and in the same edition as me.

 

[MGibster]

The campaign starts with the assumption that characters are from the Diamond Lake area which is a mining town on the coast of a lake of the same name three days east of the Free City of Greyhawk. The module assumes the characters are from Diamond Lake, have some familiarity with the local geography and legends, and are inclined to do some adventuring based on rumors.

What follows is a very, very minor spoiler for the module.

Spoiler

Sixty years prior to the scenario, members of the Seekers, a group of adventurers, scholars, and archaeologist, came to investigate the Whispering Cairn but never returned. The expedition has been largely forgotten, save for "footnotes in musty tomes in the Seeker Lodge of the Free City (Greyhawk)" that record their fate.

This organization doesn't exist anymore in my setting, but I'm going to say all of its records went to the Grey College where it has caught the attention of a student working on his senior capstone project. Most students at the Grey College come from wealthy families, and this particular student's family loves him very much, so they hire the PCs to accompany him to Diamond Lake. For my campaign specifically, the student comes from a family the PCs have already met in previous adventures, and I'm hoping the student becomes a contact for them in future adventures. He'll serve as a nice exposition dump by explaining history stuff.

 

[haakon1]

Maybe even PDFs aren’t an option today?

paizo.com - Store / Books / Dungeon / Products / Issues / Age of Worms Adventure Path

So ahem the files, or eBay the issues?

Noble Knight has back issues. That’s how I completed my collection of all the print issues of Dungeon.

I’m slowly (for years) reading every issue and taking notes in a searchable/filterable Excel spreadsheet, which is how I discovered some missing Greyhawk geography in the past.

Not sure how I will share it when I’m done. You get first dibs if you want it, Anna. 32/150 issues to go.