Holy cripes! An Greyhawk Aol flashback! All of the "Old Guard" read this tribute!

[Cyronax]

Alright, I may be stroking my own ego a bit with this thread, but I just found the strangest thing on the net and thought I'd share. I was surfing around, all the while waiting for the EN boards let me in, and I stumbled across this website, the World of Greyhawk Texts, and it appears that one of the files listed was mine! Apparently, I wrote the article (posted to the GH Aol forum...) titled "Slave Lords, an extended organization." Its was written by GeoMoLe, my old AoL screenname, basically the capitalized letters are an elaboration of my own initials. I posted that way back when I was still in high school. At that time, GH fans were still a persecuted minority, and one Erick Mona (now a WotC bigwig) was just a talkative poster known as Iquander. After reading my old handiwork, I started going through a bunch of the other unofficial, but great GH articles on that site. I'm a bit sentimental I suppose, but I really think that the old GH forum was by far one of the most influential groups of gamers in history.

Back then the GH forum was truly a font of creativity, and I really enjoyed reading all of the cool posts about GH. The zealous devotion many of those posters and the mere hint at the vast, sprawling history that was contained in the world of Oerth, inspired me to hunt down many out of GH print books and I was instantly hooked.

Short of Dark Sun, GH was the only world I would play in for several years to come, and I have that old Aol forum to thank for a that. Their GH Journals and the preceding GH Primer preceded many of the current GH products like the Scarlet Brotherhood, LGG, the RttToEE, and practically every other "return of/to" module in existence.

Okay, most of you will be rolling your eyes at this post (especially you FR fans ), but I just wanted to share. I have some good memories about that now ancient forum, and its because of those people that for better or worse (for better IMHO), GH is now the core setting for 3e D&D.

Thanks,
C.I.D.

 

[Erik Mona]

While I suspect many of my coworkers would chortle at hearing me called a "WotC bigwig," there is little denying that I'm still a talkative poster.

Check out the Scarlet Brotherhood and Sea Princes articles I wrote for that Greyhawk Primer, and compare them to the same nations' entries in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Pretty similar, I think you'll find.

--Erik

 

[EricNoah]

it's both cool and scary how your old stuff can come back to "haunt" you on the web.

 

[Cyronax]

it's both cool and scary how your old stuff can come back to "haunt" you on the web.

Wow, quite a response in such a short time. I guess that it is proof of the web's long memory. In the case of this particular article however, I'm not exactly thrilled that its survived. And despite the fact that my article seems to have preceded the whole Thag Narlot/Turrosh Mak fusion (no great feat given the number of existing half-orc characters at the time) I forgot it for a reason .

As for you Mr. Mona, don't short change yourself! It might sound a bit over the top, but you've been one of the strongest GH supporters out there. I think you helped get the "revival" started, and that's pretty cool IMO.

Anyway, enough of my sychophantic musings,
C.I.D.

 

[Erik Mona]

No, no, by all means, please continue.


--Erik

 

[Cyronax]

No, no, by all means, please continue.


--Erik

I can only give so much praise, but for now I think I've made my point and can only hope that you continue to with GH after your stint in FR's Faiths and Pantheons.

C.I.D.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I am certainly not one of the 'old guard' when it comes to Greyhawk - I have the original box set (sans box) and the Greyhawk Gazeteer as well as several 'WG' series of modules, but I have to say dang that is a lot of great stuff on that website!

ANyone wanting to start a GH campaign could do worse than starting there.

Thanks for the link (now firmly placed within my 'favourite D&D links' folder - right next to ENWorld!).

 

[bramadan]

I have to chime in.
That was indeed a great time in terms of fan creativity.
'History of Great Kingdom" is still a piece of writing I am most proud of.
Good Luck as a "bigwig" Eric.
BTW: "Armies of the Abyss" are most excellent, and that is from someone who did not care at all for the Legions of Hell.

 

[Erik Mona]

Great! Glad you liked it!

--Erik

 

[bramadan]

Yeah, now if I could only learn to spell your name
sorry.