Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk - got it!

[DM_Jeff]

Thread Resurrection.

Anyway I finally finished this. What a great read. I'll echo the statements of the poster above who said they practically felt like they got their money's worth already just by reading it. Can't wait to actually run it.

It's very obvious the Paizo folks who wrote this for WotC really honed their skills doing Dungeon all those years and made what could have been just another dungeon crawl both exciting and interesting. The city ties with the side quests really works well, and the encounters are great to read, everythigng makes sense.

-DM Jeff

 

[DM_Jeff]

Oh, and I have to ask all the Greyhawk history and trivia buff out there where some of these names come from. There's a log-in book in this adventure with names on it and I wanna track down who they might be. I doubt this is any spoiler, it's just a list of names Zagig kept and doesn't effect the adventure.

The name sion the book I know:

Robilar, Iggwilv, Mordenkainen, Bigby, Tenser, Riggby, Elluvia Maure.

Names I don't know:

Mellard-Plict, Erac, Thessalar, Eli Tomorast, Warnes Starcoat.

Who are they, anyone know? Eli Tomorast sounds familiar for some reason...

-DM Jeff

 

[ivocaliban]

Who are they, anyone know? Eli Tomorast sounds familiar for some reason...

Does Dungeon #112 "Maure Castle" ring a bell? Eli Tomorast is on the cover and plays a major role in the giant-sized adventure therein. He was also mentioned in the "1d20 Villains" article in the final issue of Dragon magazine (#359). And that's only in recent years. If you want the real story...

 

[Lidgar]

Speaking of names - Sir Bluto Sans Pike (sp?) also makes an appearance. Wasn't he from White Plume Mountain?

 

[Garnfellow]

Speaking of names - Sir Bluto Sans Pike (sp?) also makes an appearance. Wasn't he from White Plume Mountain?

He sure was. And what a great way to bring him back.

 

[Lidgar]

No kidding - especially since the party that is going through the Ruins right now just got done with 3.5v of WPM! It will be a great surprise - the original battle with Bluto and his lackeys was quite fun.

 

[grodog]

Fans of Sir Bluto should also check out Erik Mona's two RPGA LG adventures in his Absolute Power series---"River of Blood" and "As He Lay Dying." They're well-worth digging up if you can find them!

 

[demiurge1138]

Oh, and I have to ask all the Greyhawk history and trivia buff out there where some of these names come from. There's a log-in book in this adventure with names on it and I wanna track down who they might be. I doubt this is any spoiler, it's just a list of names Zagig kept and doesn't effect the adventure.

The name sion the book I know:

Robilar, Iggwilv, Mordenkainen, Bigby, Tenser, Riggby, Elluvia Maure.

Names I don't know:

Mellard-Plict, Erac, Thessalar, Eli Tomorast, Warnes Starcoat.

Who are they, anyone know? Eli Tomorast sounds familiar for some reason...

-DM Jeff

Erac's Cousin was a PC back in the Gygax days played by Ernie Gygax. He turned evil, freed Fraz-zub-uluu from Castle Greyhawk, lost his vorpal swords and (so it's rumored) became a Hierarch of the Horned Society.

Thesselar is Oerth's greatest transmuter, a lich who specializes in creating new monsters. He takes credit for the mimic, rust monster, owlbear and a suite of other beasties. He's the wizard of "A Wizard Did It". He's known for the thessalhydra and other thessalbeasties, which have multiple hydra-like heads in place of a single one.

Spoiler

He's also an antagonist in "Into the Wormcrawl Fissure", the penultimate Age of Worms adventure

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Warnes Starcoat is a member of the Circle of Eight. He was in "Isle of the Ape".

Demiurge out.

 

[DM_Jeff]

I knew all these names came from somewhere and weren't just made up for fun. Thanks for posting folks!

-DM Jeff

 

[airwalkrr]

Mellard-Plict was an Iuzite commander during the Greyhawk Wars. Not a very high profile character.

Eli Tomorast is the master of Maure Castle and a member of the Seekers. He is a powerful wizard who grafted? demon flesh to his skin to create claws that drain levels IIRC. He is the arch-villain of the Maure Castle campaign in Dungeon magazine.