Living Greyhawk Gazeteer
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Davelozzi
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The LGG is the best easily available source of Greyhawk material. Specifically, it's good for campaign background info -- it's not very rules heavy, although it does include domains for the entire GH pantheon (not just those from the PHB). There is some material in the 2e GH settings that is not repeated, if I remember correctly, it's mostly stuff about the Domain of Greyhawk (the land claimed by the city). But the LGG has more details of most regions than any other source, and so is probably your best bet.
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Flexor the Mighty!
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Well i'd go with that, or if you want better maps get a copy of the old boxed set for 1e. It's great.
Cyronax
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Don't forget the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil! Its explicitly set in the Flanaess.
The class sourcebooks like the Sword & Fist and Master of the Wild are supposed to all be generic D&D, thus targeted for Greyhawk. IMO, the Sword & Fist had a lot more GH material than the others. Even with poor editing, the S&F has some good bits in it.
C.I.D.
Don't forget the Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil! Its explicitly set in the Flanaess.
The class sourcebooks like the Sword & Fist and Master of the Wild are supposed to all be generic D&D, thus targeted for Greyhawk. IMO, the Sword & Fist had a lot more GH material than the others. Even with poor editing, the S&F has some good bits in it.
C.I.D.
Whilst the LGG doesn't strictly cover everything that was in 2E, it does a very good job.
After that, your main sources of more Greyhawk information would be...
... articles in Dragon magazine/Living Greyhawk Journal
... adventures in Dungeon magazine
... various Living Greyhawk sources (webpages, adventures, etc)
... Canonfire! - a fan site for Greyhawk run by Gary Holian amonst others (I write for that site)
... the occasional reference in a core product from WotC.
There are probably others I've forgotten.
Cheers!
After that, your main sources of more Greyhawk information would be...
... articles in Dragon magazine/Living Greyhawk Journal
... adventures in Dungeon magazine
... various Living Greyhawk sources (webpages, adventures, etc)
... Canonfire! - a fan site for Greyhawk run by Gary Holian amonst others (I write for that site)
... the occasional reference in a core product from WotC.
There are probably others I've forgotten.
Cheers!
Kaptain_Kantrip
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I think Greyhawk is *dead* as far as being a viable, supported 3e campaign setting (outside of the RPGA's Living Greyhawk projects, unavailable to non-members). The only things we get are Living Greyhawk Journal in Dragon (a few measly pages of varying usefulness) and the occasional mention in other WoTC products. TBH, the specificity (is that a word?) of the GH material in S&F is a detriment to the usefulness of the book, as most gamers are not using the GH setting.
Personally, I always preferred GH to FR, though the WARS thing was where I drew the line and lost nearly all interest in the setting (save for the usefulness of the sourcebooks such as Iuz the Evil and The Marklands). The LGG was well-written and is your best source for 3e GH material, but I am not all that fond of the changes wrought to my favorite setting by 2e/3e. The LGG I have heard is going out of print, so buy it now if you want it!
FR is too high magic (as written) for me, and overly restrictive in what the PCs can do (seeing as how there is a group like the Harpers or Zhentarim to oppose *anything* the PCs might want to do, each with super high level members in abundance!). Uber-munchkin central...
Personally, I always preferred GH to FR, though the WARS thing was where I drew the line and lost nearly all interest in the setting (save for the usefulness of the sourcebooks such as Iuz the Evil and The Marklands). The LGG was well-written and is your best source for 3e GH material, but I am not all that fond of the changes wrought to my favorite setting by 2e/3e. The LGG I have heard is going out of print, so buy it now if you want it!
FR is too high magic (as written) for me, and overly restrictive in what the PCs can do (seeing as how there is a group like the Harpers or Zhentarim to oppose *anything* the PCs might want to do, each with super high level members in abundance!). Uber-munchkin central...
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TalonComics
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Unfortunately The Living Greyhawk Gazeteer is now considered out of print at both a distributor and a manufacturer level. If you want it I highly suggest buying it while you can still find it.
Erik, did you ever hear anything contrary to the OOP status? It's been over a couple of months since this was said to be OOP and I haven't been able to get anymore from anywhere.
~Derek
Erik, did you ever hear anything contrary to the OOP status? It's been over a couple of months since this was said to be OOP and I haven't been able to get anymore from anywhere.
~Derek
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