[WoG Question]City of Greyhawk descriptions

[Doppleganger]

Quick, somebody cast a spell of Grodog summoning. That'll get ye a definitive answer.

 

[chatdemon]

(Slight Hijack) Non-Canon sources of City of Greyhawk Info and Ideas

I got to thinking about other things I've used over the years to flesh out more of the city, since even items like the City of Greyhawk boxed set and The Adventure Begins leave huge swaths of the real estate in the city undetailed. The following items have provided a few nice businesses, places of interest, etc to drop into the city.

• Waterdeep: City of Splendors (Forgotten Realms) boxed set
• Freeport: City of Adventure
• City of Ravensbluff boxed set (as well as the earlier Ravensbluff RPGA modules)
• Volo's Guide to Waterdeep (Any of the VG's really, but this one especially)
• Bluffside: City on the edge

And here's a few freebie resources you'll find around the net to help with fleshing out the city:

• Green Ronin's Focus on Freeport web extras series, a bunch of little pdf documents with added bits of city flavor.
• Thunderhead Games' downloads page, a couple Bluffside freebies here with great portability.
• Wizards of the Coast's classic D&D downloads page, you can download pdf versions of a few of the Volo's Guides here, as well as lots of other things you might find useful.

 

[Doppleganger]

I've used stuff from these classic metropolises for Greyhawk details too:

City State of the Invincible Overlord (Judges Guild)
City State of the World Emperor (Judges Guild)
Lankhmar City of Adventure (TSR)

 

[grodog]

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[grodog]

Re: (Slight Hijack) Non-Canon sources of City of Greyhawk Info and Ideas

The following items have provided a few nice businesses, places of interest, etc to drop into the city.

To Rich's great lists, I would add WG8 Fate of Istus, which has several GH city adventures, including some set in Greyhawk itself IIRC. Find copies of Gygax's Saga of Old City and other Gord novels, and you'll get a good depiction of Greyhawk from them, too.

There are several older, non-Greyhawk OOP products that could be of use: hack out of part of one adventure and import into another. You can often found at conventions and/or used sections of gaming stores, or on eBay fairly cheaply:

• Chaosium's Sanctuary box set
• the Citybook series from Blade/Flying Buffalo
• Cities from Midkemia Press (I just found one of these for $4 last weekend!)
• TSR's City of Lankhmar (1e version; apparently the 2e versions aren't so good)
• the various Warhammer FRPG city supplements and adventures (Marienburg, Warhammer City, etc.)
• Geanavue (sp?), a Kenzer city book by Ed Greenwood
• various old Dragon adventures, in particular "Barnacus: City in Peril" (Dragon 80 or so)

Enjoy!

 

[johnsemlak]

Re: (Slight Hijack) Non-Canon sources of City of Greyhawk Info and Ideas

• Waterdeep: City of Splendors (Forgotten Realms) boxed set
  
• Volo's Guide to Waterdeep (Any of the VG's really, but this one especially)
  

Using Forgotten Realms stuff to flesh out Greyhawk?

Thanks for the tips.

 

[Cheerio]

Re: Re: (Slight Hijack) Non-Canon sources of City of Greyhawk Info and Ideas

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• Chaosium's Sanctuary box set
• the Citybook series from Blade/Flying Buffalo
• Cities from Midkemia Press (I just found one of these for $4 last weekend!)
• TSR's City of Lankhmar (1e version; apparently the 2e versions aren't so good)
• the various Warhammer FRPG city supplements and adventures (Marienburg, Warhammer City, etc.)
• Geanavue (sp?), a Kenzer city book by Ed Greenwood
• various old Dragon adventures, in particular "Barnacus: City in Peril" (Dragon 80 or so)

And if you are willing to go outside of ADD/d20, check out WFRP's Marienburg: Sold down the River. Excellent city sourcebook describing a city somewhat similar to CoG. I think that Marienburg has given me more ideas than any other city sourcebook and I do not even own WFRP.

Cheers.

 

[grodog]

Here's another good, OOP city source: the Free City of Haven, and the various Gamelords "Thieves Guild" books!