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throwing lots of traps at the party sounds like fun at first, but in practice, I always found it made them crawl through the dungeon super slow, checking everything (and I mean everything) for traps. Thus, I kept traps pretty minimal, often using a few in the finale of an adventure....

Stygia was ancient Egypt. The black kingdoms were Keshan, Kush, and Zembabwe, which are shown on the map. Plus there is the barely mentioned 'island kingdoms' where Belit got her crewmen from....

I first got into the game when I was in college back in 1980, when it was really starting to take off and there wasn't a lot of official product out there. It was a lot of fun over the next ten years, but sadly, the last group I was in disbanded in 1990, when graduation and jobs forced it on...

one thing about 1E/2E... it was hella easy to houserule. You could cut out huge chunks of the game if you didn't like them. Don't like racial level limits? Toss them. Racial/gender limits on stats? Toss them. Change the XP advancement levels? Easy. Don't like the alignment system? Toss...

the last WoG campaign I ran was long before the GW, so I set most everything around Greyhawk city... KotB in the Cairn Hills, that Reptile Cult one by the marsh there (same for the Tomb of the Lizard King), Saltmarsh down near Hardby, Horror on the Hill southwest of KotB, etc.

IIRC, the original said it might be in Ratik too. It's been a lot of places. The last time I used it in a campaign, I put it in the Cairn Hills near Greyhawk City...

agree with City of Greyhawk. It is surrounded by a lot of interesting stuff. The last time I used it as a campaign setting, I ended up moving a few other WoG modules to be near it...

the DTRPG ones are not the same layout as the originals... the whole thing is bound as a book, and the previous contents of the inside covers and separate maps are bound with everything else on the inside. A good idea would be to buy the PDF along with the POD so you can print the maps/handouts...

in one FR campaign I ran, I introduced the equivalent of flintlock horse pistols. Just to simplify everything, I had the ammo for it sold in pre-made cartridges'... basically, the equivalent of those linen cartridges they used way back in Ye Olden Days. That way I didn't have to bother with...

to be fair, that's the reaction of the people of Saltmarsh, overwhelmingly human, somewhat isolated... it's not a description of 'everyone in the WoG'... if WOTC was going to do a sourcebook on the WoG, they'd undoubtedly make it a lot more inclusive, to better fit the tone of 5E. The WoG...

and don't forget "Skull Island in a pocket dimension"....

As one of the old fogeys who started with 1E and when the WoG was the only setting around, the idea of a reboot distresses me... not in the least. At least partly because I'm long out of the gaming scene. Even if I wasn't... who cares? If a reboot introduces a new generation to the WoG...

the original B4 was a flawed but interesting module. A neat idea (lost city with dreaming humans slowly being eaten by a god monster) marred by nonsensical monster placement (sprites? Owl bear? wolf?) and the bottom levels being barely sketched out random rooms populated by random critters...

technically, yeah, all those rules existed. But from what I remember, we house ruled away a lot of that. One of the basics was 'max HP at 1st level'. Another was letting the PC choose at least one spell (and sometimes all of them) instead of rolling randomly. And the PC can add some stuff to...

I liked the first one too (partly for the superb music), but I agreed with EGG on the 'flower children of Doom' and the two guys slapping Conan around after he got captured.. both those scenes were really jarring...

just in case... what spices go good with paper and ink?

my interest in GH is mostly nostalgic... it was the big thing back in the early days, and I have a lot of fond memories of the setting. As for 'preserving it'... it pretty much already is, you can get PDFs or reprints of every WoG related publication out on the internet. Younger players these...

depends a bit on how much work you want to put into them. B2 has a fine adventuring area, but the Keep base has to be fleshed out; the NPCs don't even have names! B4 Lost City needs to be reworked a lot... the layout is fine, but there is a LOT of nonsensical monster placement (particularly in...

it can be, but it really needs some DM work. Of course, you can say that about several of the classic modules. One 'did it, never used it' project of mine way back in the day was heavily reworking B4 and transplanting it to the WoG; had planned to use it as the start of a new campaign with new...

an idea I've tossed out before: get both the original Keep and the Return to the Keep modules... the latter has detailed the Keep with fully fleshed out NPCs, and you can still use the original Caves if you like...