Peculiar Manor (Greyhawk)

[Menexenus]

Hello all. I run a Greyhawk campaign and one of my homebrew towns is located on the map near a location called "Peculiar Manor". It sounds like the sort of place that was born in some old module, but so far I haven't been able to find anything about it. If anyone can point me in the direction of some official source material about Peculiar Manor, I'd appreciate it. (I own just about every Greyhawk module/supplement there is, so chances are I have it but just can't find it.)

Thanks!

 

[Emirikol]

Done

Here it is:

http://members.aol.com/WoGFanClub/whaton.html

 

[Sado]

Old Peculiar Ale

Sanjaray Mohsin is a man of Ekbir who bought a manor-house in Greyhawk ten years ago. It is now called Peculiar Manor, derived from the name of the extraordinary ale that is brewed by the owner. Sanjaray's ale, Old Peculiar, is brewed in his cellars to a recipe he says was given to him by an ancient Clatspur dwarf clan chieftain in return for some astounding service (details vary with each telling).
Old Peculiar is jet black, and is so heavy some say it is best not drunk, but eaten with a fork. It tastes like liquid peat, and is served in half-pints (2 gp). No one alive has ever claimed to have downed more than two pints, and usually only dwarves claim even that. Sanjaray boasts that the crucial test of the ale's readiness is that if a rat won't dissolve in a keg of it in less than five minutes, it needs more fermentation.

There's a real beer on Earth called Old Peculiar that's really good as well.

 

[grodog]

From Jason Zavoda's wondrous Greyhawk index:

Peculiar Manor [QTR]
DRG#195 - 95
FTAC - 14,16,88
TAB:AM - 2

That means that Dragon 195 mentions the Peculiar Manor in an article on page 95; that From the Ashes Campaign book mentions it on pages 14, 16, and 88; and that Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins map booklet mentions it on page 2.

 

[Menexenus]

Wow, thanks a lot grodog! I couldn't have asked for a more specific reference citation than that one!

 

[grodog]

De nada, Menexenus.

The manor house itself isn't that peculiar, I was hoping for something more like Rob Kuntz's upcoming "Dark Chateau" adventure in the Castle Zagyg series from Troll Lords....

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

It is this kind of thing that always was some of my favorite ideas that came out of Greyhawk. So many things were so off the wall and unusual that it had so much flavor or richness to it. Every time I see something like Peculiar Manor it reminds me of the greatness that is Greyhawk.

 

[grodog]

The manor house itself isn't that peculiar, I was hoping for something more like Rob Kuntz's upcoming "Dark Chateau" adventure in the Castle Zagyg series from Troll Lords....

...or the Winchester Mystery House, which is right down the street from my home: http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/