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  1. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    And the cover says 'Arthurian knights' rather than 'Conan'.
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  3. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    And the demons in Conan aren't like demons in Christianity. They're not trying to thwart God's plan. They're more like sentient sharks, I think, in the sense that they're alien and hostile, but not part of a spiritual struggle. EDIT: I missed the bit where you said "but not... the notion of...
  4. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    The 1983 boxed set has lots of clear-cut Good and Evil. As mentioned upthread, the map in the chapter Regional Alignments divides up the world into good, evil, and neutral lands. Demi-humans are good and humanoids (and many other monsters) are evil. There are good and evil gods. "Furyondy and...
  5. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    An attempt to summarise the main themes (together with their sources) of Greyhawk as presented in the 1983 boxed set. They are listed in order of importance. May be of interest to @Chaosmancer. 1. War. The most important by far. Most of the entries for each region describe its order of battle –...
  6. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    I was thinking of Nerull. "Many humans of evil nature, and some humanoids as well, pay homage to Nerull." The text isn't explicit that bullywugs worship Wastri but they almost certainly do. Wastri can summon bullywugs, and his worship has "spread to the Hool Marshes". Who else would you worship...
  7. Doug McCrae

    Do you prefer your character to be connected or unconnected to the adventure hook?

    Adventure path play does expect more passive players (though even that is only a matter of degree). This is probably one reason I don't like adventure path play.
  8. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    This post is about the importance of demi-human and humanoid races in Greyhawk. It considers only the 1983 boxed set, World of Greyhawk. These races originate in fiction that is not sword and sorcery so it is an argument against regarding sword and sorcery as the only source for Greyhawk...
  9. Doug McCrae

    D&D General Greyhawk and "Low Magic" : Why Low Magic is in the Eyes of Beholder

    Definitely. There can't be more than around two dozen 'random' encounters in the entirety of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings combined. By the rules in the 1e DMG pg 47 there can be as many as six in one day in the wilderness, though one every 1-3 days is more likely. (1 in 10 chance...
  10. Doug McCrae

    D&D General Greyhawk and "Low Magic" : Why Low Magic is in the Eyes of Beholder

    A distinctive feature of D&D compared to most other fantasy is the stupendously large variety of monsters. In the 70s and 80s I think only Piers Anthony's Xanth and the Marvel/DC universes were comparable. The 1983 Greyhawk boxed set uses not only all the Monster Manual monsters in its...
  11. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    This is my fault for removing too much text from pemerton's original post and making his meaning unclear. He was talking about the variety of classic D&D terrain types within easy reach of the City of Greyhawk, so the Hellfurnaces wouldn't count.
  12. Doug McCrae

    D&D General For the Love of Greyhawk: Why People Still Fight to Preserve Greyhawk

    According to the Glossography the "ancient volcano fortified by Keraptis" in the module S2 White Plume Mountain is in hex T3-70, just south of the Riftcanyon. Afaict it's in the hex that contains the letter 'R' in "RIFTCANYON" so it's 16 hexes (480 miles) from the City of Greyhawk.
  13. Doug McCrae

    D&D General Greyhawk and "Low Magic" : Why Low Magic is in the Eyes of Beholder

    I think you're referring to the 1989 City of Greyhawk boxed set. Normally when people talk about the "Greyhawk boxed set" they mean the 1983 World of Greyhawk. EDIT: Though a good case can be made that even the 1983 boxed set isn't low magic. Fifteen pages of the Glossography are combat stats...
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    Rate my bookshelf

    Top shelf again but less blurry:
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