Greyhawk and Faerun on the same planet?

[Ranger REG]

That's why I love it -- it's so naughty!!

No. Mordenkainen getting it on with the Simbul is naughty. Putting two worlds together is apocalyptic.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Why not? I once ran a game that used the unknown landmass in the northern hemisphere (east of the Eastern Sea) as Ghelspad and the landmass north of Maztica as Termana. If a Forgotten Realms/Scarred Lands campaign can work than why not a GH/FR game?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

No. Mordenkainen getting it on with the Simbul is naughty. Putting two worlds together is apocalyptic.

I can see it. Elminster teleports home early and catches the two red-handed. Now that would be one hell of a fight.

"You know, we finally settled the whole thing like grown-up people. Too bad we didn't come to our senses before we leveled the Dales. But look at it like that: In all our arcane hell-raisin', we got all these devils and demon-elves (not to mention beholders, phaerimm, shades and whatnot) in the old elven City, too, so Myth Drannor is finally free of fiends (and buildings, for that matter."

But we really don't want to imagine what two arch-mages as powerful and - hm... excentric - as Elminster and the Simbul employ to... spice-up their encounters. If they knew, they'd stop teaching Shapechange at spell collages, and even Sharess would blush.

 

[seankreynolds]

i still owe you a sock in the mouth if i ever meet you in person.

the way you treated those kids was uncalled for.

Yeah, "Stop posting scans of our books!" was so uncalled for.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Yeah, "Stop posting scans of our books!" was so uncalled for.

How dare you

 

[RichGreen]

Hi,

When the Greyhawk 98 products came out (Return of the Eight, Star Cairns etc), I actually linked my retired Forgotten Realms campaign to Greyhawk via a portal and my girlfriend's characters adventured on Oerth for several years before the game went into hiatus again. They weren't on the same planet though. Because of this crossover, I'm keeping the Great Wheel as I like to have some continuity between my campaigns.

Cheers


Richard

 

[Ranger REG]

Gasps. Blasphemy!

 

[Lord Liaden]

I know putting these two settings on the same world is "blasphemous" to contemplate, but I actually did it for an old campaign. Turned out to be remarkably easy, if you ignore all the Maztica/Kara-Tur stuff for Forgotten Realms (which I personally was never fond of, but that's just my own preference).

Both FR and the Flanaes where Greyhawk is set have the same climatic range, indicating that they're in the same hemisphere of their worlds. They feature mostly the same major races, albeit with a few cultural differences. The Forgotten Realms extend to the west coast of their continent, the Flanaes to the east coast. For both regions the landward edge of the known lands ends in a vast unexplored wasteland; you can easily place each setting at opposite ends of said wasteland, so that they share the same continent.

 

[rogueattorney]

Both FR and the Flanaes where Greyhawk is set have the same climatic range, indicating that they're in the same hemisphere of their worlds. They feature mostly the same major races, albeit with a few cultural differences. The Forgotten Realms extend to the west coast of their continent, the Flanaes to the east coast. For both regions the landward edge of the known lands ends in a vast unexplored wasteland; you can easily place each setting at opposite ends of said wasteland, so that they share the same continent.

Further still, the scale of the maps are almost the same (at least for the 1983 and 1987 boxes) making drawing the few hundred miles of wilderland between the edges of the two maps a piece of cake.

 

[Tarangil]

I guess while it is possible to mash both worlds together. Using Spelljammer to link them adds to the feel of exploration in the game and I find makes things more fun. Plus you can make them Crash on Dark Sun on the way there...If you like to watch your PC's squirm for a bit.