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I wanted this all through the 1E/2E days, and the closest we got was "The Scarlet Brotherhood" supplement right near the end of 2E, which showed us all of Hepmonaland. Lacking any official products, I detailed several other places on my own. When Oriental Adventures and the modules for it came...

sure, it's ultimately a DM call. But for GH, I would allow gnomes and half-orcs... both have a long history there, and gnomes seem to be fairly common.

it's a guess, but it keeps showing up in pictures of encounter areas, so it's a good guess... I don't think there are any NPC dragonborn in the book...

it has sorta been answered already. As someone noted earlier, GoS has a tiefling NPC and dragonborn PCs are in the artwork. But if wanted, both can be excluded without any real hassle...

heh. We've had threads before here about 'just what do 5E PCs need with piles of gold?" Running a ship could be one of the answers to that...

This... isn't really something the rest of us can answer. What do you and your players want? Tieflings yes, tieflings no, dragonborn yes, dragonborn no? That seems to be the only real issue here... GH has a long history of having gnomes and half-orcs, so those shouldn't be a problem. Want to...

You can't prove anything! yeah, I should have said PCs, not players...

if by 'punish the players', you mean 'kill them without a saving throw', then yeah, ToH does that just fine...

heh. Mohan was nearing the end of his time at Dragon when I started submitting articles to Dragon. I like to tell people that Kim Mohan personally rejected my first submission. And not long after that, he left and Roger Moore took over. And most times when I tell this story, people ask me...

I'm guessing that was in 3E or beyond? I haven't followed any of the game worlds since I got out of D&D at the end of 2E. The only worlds I'm familiar with/gamed in were GH and FR... and the fate of those worlds in 2E were quite a bit different. FR had a hiccup to get into 2E (Time of...

for nearly all of my 1E gaming, it was set in Greyhawk, mainly because that's all there was, aside from a handful of non-TSR stuff that wasn't widely available where I was going to college. Towards the end of my gaming days in 2E, I set a campaign in FR, which was going strong at the time. My...

OTOH, they wouldn't be eaten by demons, fireballed by evil mages who are irked by something, bothered by liches, annoyed by illusions, or attacked by fighters driven mad by insane magical swords.

It was a theoretical musing, not a serious campaign idea. Still, it might be interesting to have a fair sized magic dead area in a campaign....

I wondered at times back in my DM days if you could have an actual medieval type place, if there was a kingdom in a big magic-dead zone; no mages, no spell-wielding clerics, no magical monsters/outer planar critters, etc. It later occurred to me that while peasants would love such a place, the...

I used a similar plot to the GDQ series, but made it lower level and used assorted reptilian critters instead of giants... the PCs basically took on lizardmen, troglodytes, and fire newts, found that a reptilian devil-type monster was behind it all, and took the fight to him in a demi-plane full...

what happened to them? The krakens ate them all. Every single one. Yep. Sad.

kinda depends on what you're running. If it's a 5E campaign with Ghosts of Saltmarsh, there's a lot of prep.... along with the standard plot/NPCs, you've got the new ship rules to integrate. Older modules tend to be a lot shorter one-shot stuff. One thing I'll add to the list: be prepared...

While most of it was execrable, I did like the Island of Unused Monsters, where loads of critters (mostly from the FF) that DMs never used in adventures all lived together, and ate flumphs to get by....

There's another thread on the site where someone relates the story of an NPC who starved to death because he was always lying when asked if he was hungry...

I'd bet he read ERB and HR Haggard as well (one of the Conan stories practically duplicates a scene from one of the Quatermain novels)…