D&D General Greyhawk outside the Flanness

[Shades of Eternity]

I was looking at the map and realizing how little of it is fleshed other then the Flanness.

What are the official info on these area and where can I learn more?

What have you do with it outside in your game?

 

[Kilimanjaro]

The 3rd edition era Chainmail minis game detailed the continent to the west.

 

[dave2008]

If you're going to talk Greyhawk you should at least summon @Snarf Zagyg

Unfortunately that is all I can do to help as I now almost nothing about Greyhawk

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm with Dave. I certainly played 1e adventures that took place in Greyhawk back in the 80's, and I must have run some Living Greyhawk in 3e in the early oughts, but I honestly don't remember a thing about it beyond the names of a very few gods. My 2e days were all my homebrew world, and 4e and 5e have been all Forgotten Realms.

I'm looking forward to reading the new DMG!

 

[Yaarel]

I was looking at the map and realizing how little of it is fleshed other then the Flanness.

What are the official info on these area and where can I learn more?

What have you do with it outside in your game?

The official information for the rest of planet Oerth, beyond the subcontinent of Flannaess, is minimal. It mostly comes from quasi-official content: Dragon Magazine articles, passing references from novels including ones by Gygax, and especially a French comic book series Chroniques de la Lune Noire, plus 2002 Chainmail Skirmish Minis Game. The only thing that can be said with certainty, is there is an official map of the planet (2000 Living Greyhawk Gazetteer) that moreorless confirms the map in Dragon Magazine (1996 Dragon Annual). Check out thread Oerth The Planet of Blackmoor and Greyhawk.

 

[Voadam]

What have you do with it outside in your game?

My mashup campaign is a bit of Greyhawk being the past, the present is a mashup of Golarion and Ptolus, and heading to a future of Eberron.

So my setting map is fairly vague but there is a lot of Golarion and Greyhawk overlap, but I have the Golarion fantasy Arab Qadirans on the west like the Baklunish nations from Greyhawk as well as extending to the southwest of the Golarion northern continent where Cheliax is and extending into the southern fantasy Africa continent along its northern coast bordering the Inner Sea similar to parts of Golarion and Ptolus. On my Greyhawk perspective map going West past the Sea of Dust I have kept it vague but I like the Golarion idea of the fantasy Arab Qadira nation being the edge of a bigger fantasy Arab empire further on so here the Baklunish/Qadiran fantasy Arab areas are the edges of a bigger Baklunish cultural area past the dust barrier that continued in a different direction after the Twin Apocalypses, something like the Dragon Empire from Midgard where dragons are big political players and scalyfolk are higher up socially than mammal people, and while that is something that exists it is not directly on stage in most of the setting (similar to how dragon ruled lands exist but far off the core in Eberron and the Scarred Lands).

 

[Shiroiken]

What have you do with it outside in your game?

Back in 1E, my Greyhawk world had Mystara as the other side of the world. It didn't fit quite right, but nobody cared. I also incorporated the Hollow Earth, accessible via a portal beyond the Land of Black Ice.

 

[Thauramarth]

For what it's worth, the expanse of lands to the east of the Flanaess is the setting of Les Chroniques de la lune noire (Black Moon Chronicles: Black Moon Chronicles - Wikipedia ), the campaign in which Francois Marcela-Froideval played. FMF worked on the Monster Manual II and Oriental Adventures, but is known best in Europe as the founder of Casus Belli, the longest-running French RPG magazine.

 

[Tonguez]

I believe Baklunish Basin and Zhindia were expanded on a bit

 

[Sword of Spirit]

So 2002 Chainmail for the western continent and Black Moon Chronicles for the eastern. That's really interesting!

Now, if only the latter had a gaming-focused write-up.