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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1816743" data-attributes="member: 8461">Hmm, I was never very sure if things went that far...I mean, Jozan in the Iconics novels is a cleric of Pelor, but we won't be seeing New Koratia on the Greyhawk maps, right? Nor the original Adventure Path (The Sunless Citadel through Bastion of Broken Souls) despite the same thing. It's interesting to ponder if using even the "basic D&D" pantheon makes an adventure necessarily Greyhawk by default, since there are not only no other connections, but sometimes also other things that seem to fly in the face of it being GH.Which seems to be the arguement for saying that such "generic" adventures aren't truly Greyhawk, but rather they just used the Greyhawk deity names as placeholders.Not having read the Double Diamond Triangle Saga yet, I can't comment on the accuracy of the analogy (though I just got eight of the nine books, so it won't be long!), but the ties between the Sundered Empire (as it was called in Dragon #315) and Greyhawk seem few, but strong. For one thing, the drow faction of the Sundered Empire is explicitly stated to be from Greyhawk's Vault of the Drow (see Dragon #298). Likewise, the dead god Stratis is the brother of Heironeous and Hextor. We know it has the same planar setup (see Dragon #296) also. Finally, the map of the <a href="http://mysite.verizon.net/vze2b69q/chainmail_sundered_empire.jpg" target="_blank">Sundered Empire</a> matches with the one of the entire <a href="http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif" target="_blank">continent of Oerik</a>. So it seems clear that the two settings, while distant, are linked quite concretely.</blockquote>

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