Greyhawk Questions

[The_Gneech]

Well, I find myself leaving a rather weak homebrew setting and moving to Greyhawk. I have the post-3.0 Gazeteer and Living Greyhawk, but there seem to be some fairly sizable gaps between them and the Greyhawk of my memory (i.e., the old 1980 World of Greyhawk boxed set).

So anyone out there who's familiar with Greyhawk, can you point me towards what I need to get up to speed? I'm going to try to find a copy of Rary the Traitor, since this seems to be a pretty major piece of history that keeps being referred to without being explained. What else do I need?

-The Gneech

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Check out the Cannonfire website.
http://www.canonfire.com/
It should be able to answer any question you have.

By the way, if you are still looking for a game in NoVA I just started a Midnight Campaign in Falls Church on every other Thursday night. I work in Reston. You can contact me at calico_jack73@yahoo.com. We have another homebrew campaign that plays every other Wednesday night.

 

[johnsemlak]

Really, the LGG is about all you really need. If you want more, then...

If you want to be updated on the greyhawk wars changes,
From the Ashes might be useful. It gives you the setting immediately after the Greyhawk wars.

Ivid the Undying is a very useful document describing post-wars Great Kingdom, available for free on the Wizards website.

 

[Theocrat]

Greyhawk is the Only one for Me!

Hi all-
Calico Jack and John have it right, CanonFire.com is the place to go to find all your Greyhawk Needs. WotC does have Ivid the Undying as well as the errata for Rary the Traitor. If all you remember is the 80's boxset, then picking up From the Ashes, and the LGG should get you on the right track. Due to FtA being harder to pick up (or expensive) you may want to visit RPGNow.com and get the PDF of it.
Next, Greytalk@canonfire.com is a email list dedicated to Greyhawk, as is the CanonFire messageboards. CanonFire is with out a doubt the place for Greyhawk Goodness.
Because finding Ivid and all the other errata's and cool files that WotC did/does have up on their site is difficult at best, as the Downloads Editor for CF, I've made all the links to our downloads file at GreyhawkOnline.com. Because I've just moved to a new host this weekend, not all the DNS servers have caught up, so a file might be temp. missing.

But in all, the major thing that you've missed is telling us in what region you plan on playing, as that can have a serious impact on what to read and what is important. Although I haven't updated it in a while (couple yrs), my ThePale.org (also subject to dns errors), is a good place to find information on the Theocracy of the Pale. With Living Greyhawk, finding a triad based site might be informative as well and your useage may vary.

Good Luck and welcome back to Greyhawk!

 

[The_Gneech]

Cool, thanks for the info!

Re: Region, right now the characters are in Bissel (I just ran "Vanity" from Dungeon, which is set there); I'll give the players their choice as to where to go next, although my instinct is that they'll be heading in the general direction of the North Crusade...

-The Gneech

 

[diaglo]

here is a short list of material you may have missed...

World of Greyhawk Boxed Set 1983
City of Greyhawk Boxed Set 1989
WGA1 Falcon's Revenge 1990
WGA2 Falconmaster 1990
WGA3 Flames of the Falcon 1990
WGA4 Vecna Lives! 1990
WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins 1990
From the Ashes 1992
WGR2 Treasures of Greyhawk 1992
WGR3 Rary the Traitor 1992
WGR4 The Marklands 1993
WGR5 Iuz the Evil 1993
WGR6 City of Skulls
WGM1 Borderwatch
WGQ1 Patriots of Ulek 1992
WGS1 Five Shall Be One 1991
WGS2 Howl From the North 1991
Greyhawk Wars boxed set 1991
Return of the Eight 1998
The Star Cairns 1998
Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad 1998
The Doomgrinder 1998
Greyhawk Player's Guide 1998
Greyhawk The Adventure Begins 1998
The Scarlet Brotherhood 1999
Return to the Keep on the Borderlands 1999
Return to the Tomb of Horrors boxed set 1999
Against the Giant: The Liberation of Geoff 1999
Return to White Plume Mountain 1999
Slavers 2000

 

[johnsemlak]

here is a short list of material you may have missed...

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You forgot the Greyhawk Adventures Hardcover by Jim Ward. 1988 or thereabouts I believe.

I'm heard some people say it would be better to forget that one, but that's a different matter.

 

[Snoweel]

I just got a flashback from 1989.

Does anybody remember that novel with the guy who disembowelled two gnolls early on in the piece?

I don't remember the title, I don't remember the name of the character and I don't remember if the hero or the gnolls or either or all were on horses at the time.

Actually they might not have been gnolls.

But what is vivid is that the guy (a human) disembowelled two humanoids (actually he might've disembowelled only one of them) who were charging at him because he stood his ground in the face of their charge and one lost its nerve and slowed down.

Ah, the things we remember (or don't) when we're 13 years old and new to fantasy novels and tetrahydracannabol...

 

[Snoweel]

Oh.

But I remember it was definitely Greyhawk.

 

[diaglo]

You forgot the Greyhawk Adventures Hardcover by Jim Ward. 1988 or thereabouts I believe.

I'm heard some people say it would be better to forget that one, but that's a different matter.

that's what i get for doing this from memory.