Recent content by haakon1

Do folks think American (Chicago & a resort town in southern Wisconsin) versus Canadian (Ontario) made a difference in Gygax’s GH versus Greenwood’s FR? My guess is not really, but I’m John Snow when it comes to FR.

Everything they publish will have downloads with rules for all D&D editions, all Pathfinder editions, Tales of the Valiant, and Daggerheart.

Trying to read up on how FR got an Underdark, I didn’t find that specific answer, but I did find an interesting product history of how the Gray Box came to be/the origins of FR. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16782/forgotten-realms-campaign-set-1e?affiliate_id=4782917&src=FRWx

Drow and the Underdark entered D&D via a Greyhawk series of adventures published 1978-1981. As a Greyhawk fan who missed most of the 2e era, I do wonder about the origins of Drow and the Underdark in the Forgotten Realms. Anyone know the history on that?

Was it a true “always” situation in FR? IIRC, 1980’s Unearthed Arcana, which is basically setting neutral, had at least one nonevil Orcish deity. I believe the Cave Mother. 3e/3.5e explicitly had a “usually”, not an always, alignment on orcs, humans, and almost everything else sentient and...

Congratulations - this sounds like a great idea.

Somewhere on the LG/LN sequence. I’d prefer if this were a poll, which sounds like something an LN nerd would say imho.

I have never run FR, and only played FR in Gen Con Online and BG3. But plus thread, so I’ll answer why I’m interested. 1. Inescapable in D&D. More than the default setting, it’s sometimes described as THE D&D setting. 2. Gray Box. Based on advice from my only player who is an FR fan, I set...

The Shield Lands is a single country, but perhaps you meant the Bandit Kingdoms next door.

There is no Dana, only Zuul!

My view, for my 3.5e Greyhawk campaigns, is … All the gods are real. All the settings exists in parallel with each other - most are in the same Prime Material Plane on different planets. My PC’s have met folks from other settings, and one retired PC is currently “stranded” by himself in the...

I think if I ever visit there as DM, I’d have it on its own planet 🌏 , within the same Prime Material Plane. Or a different continent if you don’t like that.

Eldritch Blast doesn’t work; does.

I’ve run my Greyhawk setting since 1998 (over email). I don’t consider it “kitchen sink”, but a focus on AD&D (1e) style gaming, with classic adventures from that period and similar feel adventures from the decades since. The only “weird” stuff we’ve seen is the Elemental Nodes from TOEE, but...