What didn't people like about Gygax's Greyhawk?

[Gentlegamer]

It bugs me that Gary signed away the rights to continue producing material for Greyhawk.

What does that matter? YOU DESTROYED GREYHAWK!!!

 

[Gentlegamer]

Don't forget the "-igby" names: Bigby, Riggby, Zigby, Digby, and Sigby Grigbyson!

These were a running joke between DM Kuntz and Gary when he was playing. I think Rob kept giving Gary henchmen with the -igby element to mess with him, but Gary turned the tabled by embracing it and naming even more characters that way.

 

[Voadam]

names that are clearly reversals (sometimes with a little modification) of actual players' names -- Zagyg, Drawmij, Tenser, etc.

Who is Tenser?

 

[Gentlegamer]

Who is Tenser?

Ernie (Ernest) Gygax

 

[Voadam]

Maybe just borrow the good bits from each setting, maybe mess with the names a bit if it's hard to accept Vecna, Lord Soth and the Cult of the Dragon having a tea party, and dump them in your homebrew. The canon police won't arrest anyone because they don't exist.

No, no, no. Soth and Vecna are both dark lords and therefore can't leave their own areas to visit each other in person. Vecna might be able to send a simulacrum or something like that though and a cultist could show up in any domain, so it would have to be Vecna's avatar, soth, and a cultist at the time period of the end of 2e is perfectly canon appropriate. Anything else would be just ridiculous.

 

[Sigdel]

No, no, no. Soth and Vecna are both dark lords and therefore can't leave their own areas to visit each other in person. Vecna might be able to send a simulacrum or something like that though and a cultist could show up in any domain, so it would have to be Vecna's avatar, soth, and a cultist at the time period of the end of 2e is perfectly canon appropriate. Anything else would be just ridiculous.

But you forget that Vecna escaped RL when WotC left it for dead in the 3.0 changeover and Soth was brought back to DL so Weiss and Hickman could kill him off.

 

[Voadam]

But you forget that Vecna escaped RL when WotC left it for dead in the 3.0 changeover and Soth was brought back to DL so Weiss and Hickman could kill him off.

Do I?

so it would have to be Vecna's avatar, soth, and a cultist at the time period of the end of 2e is perfectly canon appropriate.

 

[krunchyfrogg]

Flan is a caramel-flavored breakfast custard.

Yuck, you eat those in the morning?

 

[Sigdel]

Do I?

Didn't mean anything by it. The text doesnt show the bitter tone in my voice.

 

[Voadam]

Didn't mean anything by it. The text doesnt show the bitter tone in my voice.

I understand. My campaign was still pre conjunction when it ended despite having converted to 3e. I used the original box set for setting material and the 3e books for monster stats. I loved how the 3e CS was all player appropriate info (until those monster appendixes) but I never blasted Azalin to implement Necropolis or got rid of Soth. I even use GURPS Fantasy II for the Nightmare Lands.