Age of Worms - Greyhawk or FR better?

[haakon1]

I know more about FR, enough to get the feel and pick up on the tone, but haven't done so with Greyhawk. I have the LGG and will read over it. The impression I get from reading posts is a little vanilla, but as I said I don't know much yet.

My dad's an English professor . . . there's an old joke in their trade, about the student who didn't like Shakespeare because it's so full of cliches. Greyhawk is like that as D&D settings go . . . it's vanilla because it's the original setting of role playing (pace those who say Blackmoor, as it was not readily available until 3.5e).

I like Greyhawk for the fact that the mythology and names are already there and the fact that my players don't know much either gives me a little leeway if I need to fudge things.

Greyhawk is designed to be open to fudging and DM invention. So are Blackmoor and Wilderlands -- old school gaming wasn't much on consistent tone, other than a tone of "fun" fantasy.

 

[Maldin]

The conversion is done and published on the Paizo sight through Wormcrawl Fissure. Only one conversion left to go (and that should be very short and fairly obvious after the other conversions).

Hey Eric! How's it going? Hey, do you think you could whip up a 2E conversion of AoW as well? ;-)

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[Twowolves]

Where, exactly, on the Paizo site are the conversion notes? My search-fu is weak.

 

[Mirtek]

IMO neither FR or GH seem to be particular good places for this adventure path. Just imagine the following:

*Recently at the yearly gathering of deities*

Kyuss: Hi guys, my name is Kyuss. I know, I am only a fairly minor demigod, but I have this plan to herald an age of darkness by allowing my worshippers to release me onto these prime world and

Iuz: Ah, just shut up. I am a much more powerfull demigod and I am already living on this world.

Tharizdhun: WTF? Who the the nine hells is this guy? Do I have to remind you that I already filled out my application to destroy Oerth a millenium ago?

Kyuss (sad): Well, maybe I could move my plot to Toril? See I re..

Bane, Cyric and Shar: F**k off! Set a wormy foot on Toril and we're going to use you as a lure for fishing.

About the earlier appearances of Dagotha: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20010817a

 

[Nightfall]

Firstly, Iuz isn't that powerful. He's just 'hanging around'. Tharizdun is just sitting and waiting. At least Kyuss is doing something. Trust me the path works well in Greyhawk for that reason alone. FR...eh, but certainly not bad since the conversion notes deal with the "former" Dead Three.

 

[rounser]

Kyuss: Hi guys, my name is Kyuss. I know, I am only a fairly minor demigod, but I have this plan to herald an age of darkness by allowing my worshippers to release me onto these prime world and

Iuz: Ah, just shut up. I am a much more powerful demigod and I am already living on this world.

Tharizdhun: WTF? Who the the nine hells is this guy? Do I have to remind you that I already filled out my application to destroy Oerth a millenium ago?

Kyuss (sad): Well, maybe I could move my plot to Toril? See I re..

Bane, Cyric and Shar: F**k off! Set a wormy foot on Toril and we're going to use you as a lure for fishing.

This would make more sense if they weren't all so busy getting foiled. Vecna and Demogorgon are obviously late for the Oerth party. On Faerun, Bhaal had a red hot go at the Moonshaes for a while there until his avatar copped it in the neck, and Moander wound up dead somehow too.

And they would have got away with it...if it weren't for those meddling PCs and their darn dog.

I can buy Kyuss on Faerun or Oerth - both "existed" when FF came out (even if Greenwood did bag out the book in a dragon review). I doubt Kyuss has even heard of Eberron, let alone want to usher in an age of darkness on it.

 

[jokamachi]

Greyhawk. Hands down.

 

[Drowbane]

I am thinking aabout starting the Age of Worms campaign with my group. Right now I am running the SotLW series in Eberron, and everyone likes Eberron a lot. I have read the Overview and most of the adaptation material to set AoW in Eberron, but it just doesn't feel right to me. AoW has more of a classic high fantasy feel, and Eberron is too "modern" to use the term very loosely. I just can't make it work in my head. So I am looking towards Greyhawk and FR. Which seems better suited, feel-wise, for AoW? And yes, I know it is defaultly set in Greyhawk...

AoW and SC both: Run whats best for you and yuor players. I'm not a GH fan, but the DM who ran us (partially, I moved ) through AoW was most comfortable with GH... and thus I'm sure he ran it better than he would have in FR or E. My new SC DM is running it mostly Setting-Generic. We've encountered GH Religions, but our PC Cleric worships a FR deity... one of us (me) is a Warforged... and another is a Loresong Faen-spryte. So thats what... 4 settings represented?

 

[jdrakeh]

Kyuss, who was first mentioned in the original Fiend Folio, had no ties to Greyhawk in his first appearance, either.

I was going to mention that, as well, but you beat me to it. He also wasn't a deity therein, merely a long dead evil priest that left behind some unique undead servitors (the Sons of Kyuss).

 

[Erik Mona]

Kyuss has been a part of the Greyhawk campaign setting since as early as 1993's "Iuz the Evil." Although his introduction to D&D in the Fiend Folio did not tie him to the setting (the only official one in print at the time), he was looped into Greyhawk a long time before the Age of Worms.

--Erik