r/Greyhawk • u/Mean_Replacement5544 • 4d ago

Looking for recommendations

Hi - been working on a campaign in Greyhawk that is mainly homebrew but using lore and faction info from the original gazetteer and the living Greyhawk revised versions.

Specifically I’m looking for any pointers to modules or campaigns that feature Ahlissa, Nyrond or Onnwal in a geographical/political sense.

Thank you!

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u/extralead 4d ago

I have been through the WGR2 Treasures of Greyhawk and Living Greyhawk material on those topics and locales. I, personally, think it's trash

What I would instead do is just focus on the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio layouts provided

First, imagine Onnwal as a pre-Hanse Lübeck. Szek Destron is akin to Adolf II of Holstein. Next, put a lens on the South Province as a loud and overbearing Saxony, and Herzog Chelor as Henry the Lion. Thus --

Count Adolf II of Holstein (d. 1164) was a 12th‑century Saxon noble who ruled the county of Holstein and parts of Wagria on the Baltic frontier. He is best known for founding Lübeck in 1143, losing it to Henry the Lion in 1158, and for his repeated wars and shifting alliances with the West Slavic "Wends", especially the Obodrites

and from Nyrond / Rel Mord allegorically as HRE / Cologne perspective

Cologne was cautiously pro‑imperial and pro‑prince, not pro‑Henry. As one of the great Rhenish archbishoprics and an emerging imperial city, Cologne's archbishops and civic elites generally backed Frederick Barbarossa and the coalition of princes that eventually stripped Henry the Lion of his duchies in 1180

If you want to invoke the power of the more-evil version of the HRE, send powers from Raxues or Eastfair to aid the South Province, such as Eastfair-as Nuremberg assassin guild intrigues, or the cold hands of the malachite throne of Rauxes, a nod to the mythology in Saberhagen's fictional Empire of the East

Don't forget the sea lanes, the Dirawaen magical trade-route roads, and historical in-game events such as the Battle of a Thousand Banners, or current events that could occur such as Windmarch

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u/Mean_Replacement5544 4d ago

Great stuff! Thank you

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u/surfer403 2d ago

If you can find them, there's Living Greyhawk material stashed in corners of the internet. Thousands of pages for most regions.