The Wayfarer's Inn

Maraudar · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:26 am Post subject: Your Greyhawk

So tell us about your Greyhawk...

Is it prewars?

Post wars?

Living Greyhawk?

Does any of the above matter because its Greyhawk?

No 3e Greyhawk sucks or 2e sucks or so on or well you know

.... But beyond all that what attracted you to Greyhawk? Why stay with Greyhawk with all of the other settings out there?

Maraudar

Rafael · Fear me, I am Admin! Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 983

My own *unmodified* Greyhawk is usually just the Great Kingdom as presented in *Ivid the Undying*.

I don't rely on any timeline from 585 CY on, but just let my players form the world as they want.

Apart from that, I never counted with a timeline on my older games, so I guess they could be places around 576 CY, pre-wars.

Sir Clarence · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:

I never ran a postwar campaign - yet. I'm not particularly fond of the whole GH Wars idea. My current GH campaign takes place in North Province (Atirr) one year before the wars though. I've not yet decided whether I'll give the canon timeline a try or not. Perhaps I'll do it to get an impression of the whole idea in actual game play, but I don't know yet.

I'm using stuff that I like from all kinds of sources, no matter what edition or publication. So yes, my GH has elements from the LG Gazetteer and also from Ivid the Undying and the City of Greyhawk boxed set. As long as it fits together with my personal view of Greyhawk, I don't care.

To answer the second question: Greyhawk was the very first published game setting that I ever bought (not that there were that many for D&D back in '85) because I wanted to experience the original D&D world. I also wanted to know everything about all these cool sounding locations within the different modules and in the DMG, and about the various characters from the orignal GH campaign. I feel at home there now after all these years, using it alternately with my own campaign world. Somehow it never gets boring.

Rafael · Fear me, I am Admin! Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 983

For me, it wasn't really the point if I liked post-war era or not - for me,

the main problem was simply that Greyhawk was simply OOP when I interested in DMing a campaign that used more than

basic names as setting background.

Even through I ran it for a while, I had absolutely no idea about the setting's detailed history,

until about 2004, when I first registered at the WotC board... Even today, my Greyhawk library is pretty small,

and I only own three offical setting background supplements.

I never got too much into it, because I dislike the idea of settings being pushed forward continuously on a global scale,

like Greyhawk was pushed on through the Wars.

Maraudar · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

Rafael · Fear me, I am Admin! Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 983

FTR, I am tinkering on a Rauxes dungeon crawl that is set shortly after the fall of the Great Kingdom.

Maraudar · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject:

Reallllllllllllllllly..... Now that sounds interesting. Are you using information from Ivid? There was a section that dealt with the catacombs of the city.. Or that may have been from Fate of Istus.

Maraudar

Rafael · Fear me, I am Admin! Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 983

Right now, I am only relying on ItU. Out of an original idea with Rauxes as a RL domain, however,

I have developed a slightly different dungeon concept that I might end up publishing via DF in the end, if I manage

to get the notes compiled. (In five months or so...

)

This will be pretty funny for Clarence, for, IIRC, he's the official DF mapper, and right now, he can look forward to about 20 dungeon maps...

What a shame that WotC still keeps the WoG rights locked and away...

Sir Clarence · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject:

Sir Clarence · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: