D&D General Living Greyhawk - tell me about your games?

[Shades of Eternity]

I heard there is a bunch of stuff created by the Living Greyhawk back in the day that can't be found, much less used, from this golden era, due to legal reasons.

I'm seriously curious.

So tell me about your Living Greyhawk stuff?

Bonus points if you can figure out a way to make it legally distinct and/or put it on the DM's Guild.

 

[Yaarel]

Bonus points if you can figure out a way to make it legally distinct and/or put it on the DM's Guild.

Greyhawk content is open for DMs Guild, so indies can publish there whatever content from their own homebrew creations while campaigning in it.

 

[Nutation]

Living Greyhawk was regional. I am in California, so I have a lot of scenarios that could be run in Northern or Southern California. I also have a lot of Core scenarios that could be run anywhere. I didn't write these, and I don't own the IP, so I cannot redistribute them.

 

[Alzrius]

I heard there is a bunch of stuff created by the Living Greyhawk back in the day that can't be found, much less used, from this golden era, due to legal reasons.

I'm seriously curious.

So tell me about your Living Greyhawk stuff?

Bonus points if you can figure out a way to make it legally distinct and/or put it on the DM's Guild.

If you're looking for Living Greyhawk stuff, check out the works of Casey Brown (affiliate link). His "LG BK Classics" adventures are adapted from the Bandit Kingdoms regions of Living Greyhawk adventures, of which he's also published the (excellent) Unofficial Living Greyhawk Bandit Kingdoms Summary. I've purchased copies of everything he's released, and it's all of a very high quality.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I joined the Shield Lands triad in the second year hoping to fill a role of the person who wrangled with the existing canon. Soon we divvied up writing duties and I think I was writing 2+ mods a year. [edit: burnout happened after 6 years of it and I left, unable to get the Shield Lands through the final 3.5 years and the close of the campaign… but I remember we had a hell of a send off planned that saved our reveal so late the higher-ups couldn’t stop us from resurrecting Hextor’s and Heironeous’ brother Stratis]

To help keep track of frontline progress and adventure locations I whipped up a map in photoshop that we included on our webpage, and someone went and printed poster-size.

I guess word got to Casey in the Bandit Kingdoms so he asked if I could expand it and create a map the BK could repurpose. I got to work and made it for them to use and to my knowledge it appeared in their guide and mods back then.

The compliments I got inspired me to try completing a Flanaess-wide map in that style. But the ambition was so high compared to the effort to research every LG location plus canon location, plus my spare time to do it. Got burn out and put it on pause for years and years. Though what completed I did release for public to download from Canonfire. Later I put them out on my deviant art page.

A few years ago I got around to completing mapping the entire Flanaess in the style I started with and released them on my deviant art site. I regret that most of the LG sites that used to exist are no longer up and even are don’t exist in the wayback machine. So I could not be as thorough with LG location research… so I didn’t try except for doing published canon. They’re there for download with what I had available to find in the 2020s, ¯\(ツ)/¯ .

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As far as those old LG mods I authored, I can’t find copies anywhere. If I could even locate copies I know I would seriously need to do major editing. Most Greyhawk fans I know were not pleased with post-From the Ashes results, so adventures in occupied Shield Lands also seem like a very low audience for the effort.

 

[MGibster]

I used to run a lot of Living Greyhawk games in the early 2000s. Being in Arkansas, our region of Greyhawk was the Yeomanry, so our adventures focused on that area. If you visited other areas of the United States and sat down at a LG game, you'd be playing in another region of Greyhawk in adventures that weren't normally available to you. It's been more than twenty years since I last ran a LG game. None of the adventures really stand out in my mind as being terrible or excellent. I do remember having fun, so they were fine.

I did get tired of LG after a while. Mainly because as a DM I felt like a rubber stamp who existed to give players experience and magic items. That's largely because of some of the gamers in my area at the time and not really the fault of the RPGA (I think they were in charge of Living Greyhawk at the time). I have no idea where one might find those adventures. I don't know anybody who saved them.