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For me, there are several key traits to Greyhawk: -LOW POWER LEVELS Being 7th level means you're somebody of note. Having a +1 shield makes you a force to be reckoned with. The most powerful characters in the land range from 12th to 18th level, with only a very select few being higher than...

Some people have suggested how many of the characters supposedly based off rogues-the Gray Mouser, for example-are skilled fighters. They also seem to be the kind of fighters who strike in and out quickly, instead of just hacking away toe-to-toe the way Achilles or Conan would. By the same...

Count me in! I see no reason why every single dragon is treated as a tactical genius to rival Napoleon, with spells AND spell-like abilities, a truckload of magic items, and being able to act completely logically and rationally, without ever making mistakes by losing their temper, arrogantly...

In my version of Greyhawk, the many different churches are often wracked with internal debates, differences and discussions on theology and the interpretation of writings and doctrine, much like the differences between Catholics and Protestants, or between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in Islam...

My problem is that I simply can't tell when a map violates real-world geology. If I could design a map (which I can't-I can't draw) I wouldn't really care, because I wouldn't know what to look for. And, again, when you consider the presence of monsters and demihumans, the fact that magic...

A previous poster pointed out the fact that merchants might not like competition, so perhaps your players might like to make themselves associate members of an actual trading house, which could conceivably be used to generate some new adventures. If they are skilled fighters with good...

See, this is what it's about! Sourcebooks and further development, not an overarcing campaign story!

No, it is wanted. These are words of wisdom. I LIKE my Greyhawk frozen in amber, or at least advanced with small, gradual changes, not the roller-coaster stuff we've had to deal with since FtA.

Yes, it does. Rewind the timeline to 576 CY and clean out a lot of the garbage that passes for canon (e.g. anything by Sean K. Reynolds, any of the arbitrary destructions of nations from FtA, etc.) Incorporate the history in the LGG, take historical references and things like that, but don't...

I truly despise FtA because it violated one of the most basic tenets of Greyhawk-that it was the DM and his or her players, and not official canon and metaplots over which the DM has no control that dictated how the setting would go. Countries were trampled over without the PCs getting a...

This is a wonderfully refreshing thread, given all the elf-bashing that usually goes on. I especially like the idea of elves never having had a "golden age" to begin with, and that such things could easily happen in the future, that the elven Golden Age is coming, it's going to be the here and...

Yes, I know, but I prefer to take these things seriously. I'm one of those uptight stuffed shirts who gets cranky if the game isn't set up as an intense, serious, grim, Shakespearean drama. ;) In all seriousness, I don't mind humor, but I don't want it to be campy or silly. The kind of...

Aaarrrggghhh! This is why I absolutely DESPISE camp humor in my fantasy games and settings-they bring the versimilitude and believability of the world to a screeching halt. Making gnomes into one large running gag was what bothered me so much about tinker gnomes in the first place, and gave...

Hmmm. Mind if I run by you something that crossed my mind when I was reading through DL7 a while back? This takes place in my "Alternate War of the Lance" storyline... Sturm, Laurana and company are in Foghaven, having just been attacked by Thunderbane and his giant and ogre cronies...

Don't get me wrong, Cam Banks and company are doing yeomen's work with the new DL setting, but the one thing about DL that really rubbed me the wrong way was how gnomes were portrayed as inept bumblers. I didn't mind the tinkering, but it was the implication that they were a race of...

See, this is what I meant when I asked whether 3E/3.5 dictated a certain style of play. And most people shouted me down. Go figure.

It's commonly depicted that tinker gnomes' inventions never work right. How is that even possible? How can the gnomes do even the most basic things-wash their clothes, cook their food, get from one place to another-if they insist on building inventions to do it, and then those inventions...

My orcs are pretty much like what they resemble in the original MM-the bodies of slouched over, neanderthal-like creatures, and a head that looks like a cross between a man and a warthog. Skin is greenish-pink, and quite often the orcs don't have hair the same way humans do-instead of a full...

Party is sent to try and warn the inhabitants of a small city about the BBEG's army coming to destroy them. Guard captain at the gate is a secret agent of the BBEG, and is coming up with all the BS excuses he can think of to not let us in, insulting the party members and calling them liars and...

Just out of curiousity, what about a setting where female characters are second-class citizens in only some parts of the world? In my own Greyhawk writings on Canonfire, places like Furyondy, Onnwall, Ahlissa, Northern Aerdy, and Sterich either do not allow women the same civil rights as men...