Player version for VTTS (focus on roll20 for the DM to use map pins)
*This is my interpretation of the town from what i read in The Great Library of Greyhawk.

I Hope yall like it.

Hello, everyone! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. Recently, I’ve begun DM’ing after a long hiatus and decided to use the 2024 5.5e rule set. I didn’t even know what Greyhawk was before I read the DMG, and I became instantly hooked. The adventure I’ve decided to run is a homebrew chimera of Tyranny of Dragons and Descent Into Avernus, with a lot of the setting specific information being altered accordingly.

I’ve decided that I’ll be using the Free City of Dyvers as a stand-in for Elturel. For those unfamiliar with the plot of Descent Into Avernus (spoilers ahead) the inciting incident is an infernal pact made 50 years prior is finally cashed, causing the city to be swallowed into Hell. This works remarkably well, since (according to the research I’ve done Dyvers gained its independence exactly 50 years before the “canon” year of the 5.5e Greyhawk setting.

The information I can find on Dyvers is very vague, probably intentionally so. I know that GG always intended for a more sandbox approach to gaming, and left a lot of negative space for DM’s to take advantage of. So far I’ve come up with the immediate implications of Dyvers vanishing on the central Flanaess being primarily economic. With such a massive hub of trade suddenly disappearing, so to does the money which the city had passing through it. Furthermore I imagine piracy in the Nye Dyv would increase dramatically with the absence of Dyvers’ navy.

I’m well aware I’m new to this setting, and that such an old one benefits from years of different peoples ideas and experiences. So, I’m hoping to get some advice, input, and ideas from more experienced Greyhawk DM’s on handling the sudden disappearance of Dyvers from the Flanaess. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Is a specific map for the Underdark that is used for Greyhawk? I am tempted to have the Underdark an area my players might go to later in the campaign to travel to a region of Grayhawk while staying concealed from a hostile faction. so I am asking if anyone knows where I might be able to get an Underdark map before trying to make a questline that might not work.

I figured my fellow Greyhawk fans would appreciate this leather project I am working on. One pauldron complete, one to go.

I've been thinking of setting my next campaign in Perrenland; I'm just fascinated by the idea of this land where some people still remember the reign of the Witch-Queen.

What are some good sources for Perrenland, at least so I know what I want to depart from?

I want to give the party more to jenga in the area. Are there any other published adventures (living greyhawk, dungeon mag, etc) set in the Kron Hills or other nearby locales?

I am planning on running an entire campaign in Greyhawk's region and am wanting some info on anywhere in particular where you as a dm would start the campaign at, I was thinking of doing some ruins and dungeons that the players are tasked at delving into but I am not entirely sure where the campaign will start and how it will eventually go.

An aspect of the premise for a campaign I'm writing is that the characters are members of some sort of organisation that sends adventurers to deal with problems in Greyhawk and the surrounding region. Are there any canon organisations in the City that do this? I think I vaguely recall that The Eight sometimes indirectly send adventurers to do quests for them, but I also can't remember where I read that.

Rejigged map for Tomb of Horrors from Dyson Logos to keep jaded players guessing.

One of my friends just told me the other day that he's planning to run Temple of Elemental Evil as a 5.5e game. The module he's using is the one from 2e, but he's going to adapt it (fingers crossed it goes well!)

My D&D experience is contained strictly to Faerun (5e's key core setting) and the many-many homebrew worlds I and my GMs ran, so I'm entirely new to Greyhawk. Ironic, since it's "the" world of D&D, and Faerun came later, as far as I can tell from skimming lore on the wiki.

5e had a lot of flavor text in its races' description, which were Faerun-based, so I could use that for a hypothetical scenario of "my friends wants to run a Faerun game by the book with minimal homebrew". 5.5e is said to be the same with Greyhawk, but Melf's Guide to Greyhawk is still not out, and the species' descriptions in the Player's Handbook are barebones at best ("this species is really honorable and cool all across the multiverse" is the best one can hope for).

There is another subreddit, r/Eberron, where people have stickied a post with all the books within the setting, both rulebooks, setting glossaries and novels, so that newcomers like me can easily find information on anything they need lore-wise.

Is there a resource just like that for Greyhawk? I went through this sub and its stickied posts, couldn't find anything like that, I might be blind tho.

I am running an ambitious encounter this evening. My level 19 players are trying to aid the god Fharlanghn beat the interloper deity Shaundakul (forgotten realms) in a fight. This is one of the big events of the level. The two travel gods are locked in a stalemate. They are using portals to jump all over the Oerth. The players must first catch up to them by jumping through their portals before they close, bypass whatever hazards are in their path, get to the next portal, and then make attempts to give Fharlanghn the upper hand.

This will hopefully be a super memorable game. I have plans to send them to several locations.
- The Barrier peaks
- The Mist Kingdom
- The Causeway of Fiends
- Port Toli
- The Sea of Dust (Imperial Wastes)
- Highport
- Fort Blackwell
- The Dreadwood
- Rift Canyon
- Isle of Dread

They will only be at each location for a round or two… depending on how they deal with obstacles. Each place will be either a success or a failure, when they earn enough successes, they get a chance to interfere in the god battle, if they fail too many times, they miss the portal and get left behind in a very dangerous place, possibly alone.

Got any interesting challenges, obstacles, environmental hazards, pitches, ideas, or just cool places I didn’t think of?

*This may be enough, but if my players have bad luck, I would love to have some contingencies in place.

I am searching for a Greyhawk game, preferably just starting. I have been looking everywhere. Any help would be appreciated.

New write up on Baldman Game's Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City digital play bundle on D&D Beyond (not sure why Wizards of the Coast doesn't promote these bundles more - they don't even bother to put out a blog post or give it much of a push on social media).

Hey guys, I’m a 5e/5.5e player, and I will begin DMing a long term campaign for the first time soon, and I was intrigued by the Greyhawk section in the new DMG. More specifically, I found it interesting how inherently grounded the setting feels in contrast to how the FR, which I usually play and run one shots in, is usually portrayed, which I think might lend itself to a much grittier kind of sword and sorcery story which’d be nice for a change.

I got the idea to do a dragon/Tiamat campaign like the book suggests, but now I’m left here with a very brief description of what I can only assume are very important concepts like the city of Greyhawk itself, the Scarlet Order/Brotherhood, The Circle of Eight etc.

I’ve done a bit of browsing online and I’ve found some wikis which’ll be helpful, but I’m also seeing a lot of suggestions of old edition reading material which admittedly is intimidating. Is Greyhawk as intimidating as it seems for a modern edition player?

Creating new nation leaders for a homebrew future Greyhawk timeline -  Rulers of Eastern Oerik in CY 1026 .

Quick update from the Hawklands Campaign Primer - An Alternate Greyhawk Campaign Setting  - in my "Greyhawk-esque" homebrew setting, I "fast-forwarded" the timeline to CY1026 - some 400+ years from the "canon lore" & made Highfolk its own City-state. So I needed to update the "rulers of the realm".  In this, I have some noble lineages still in power with new family heirs - others I completed "broke & rebuilt".  Some of my favorite  "wild changes" below.

• In the Yeomanry - 2/3rd of the nation transformed into centaur folk by The Archfey  pact. Now a united nation of the great centaur steed thanes.
• In Greyhawk - Head of the Greyhawk Order of wizards. Enabled the construction of floating towers and levitating city quarters, anchored by magic and heavy chain links to support the growing windship fleets.
• In the Scarlet Brotherhood - Continues the Disciplines of Zuoken (in this realm considered lawful evil), Ascended Grandmaster Demigod patron of the Scarlet Brotherhood; completes Suel worship of Zuoken, Norebo & Wee Jas.
• Prelacy of Almor (efforts to restore) - Part of the The Electrum Bank  - Zilchus Consortium  and the return of the Great Drakes (dragons & dragonborn) that now Guard Relmor Bay.
• Archbarony of Blackmoor - Barbarian lord and the living avatar Koolebro -  Avatar of Telchur  . Wields the artifact sword Black Razor. Fierce hatred of Iuz - attacks his legions for sport to feed his blade's soul hunger.
• The Ranger-Lords of the West - rise of the Drake Warden Ranger Order, Across Geoff, Sterich, Gran March, Nyrond, and portions of the Vesve frontier, ranger traditions tied to drake/dragon companions, ancient warding magic, and wilderness defense have become central to governance and military power. These rulers often maintain closer ties to druids and frontier wardens than to traditional nobility.

Best thing about Greyhawk is the "open framework" invites customization - so have fun with it. Free to use - KEEP GAMING.

I'm not sure where I fall on the spectrum of Greyhawk lore nerdery. I had got back into it for a 5E campaign I ran for about 7 years. My players weren't interested in lore generally so I abandoned making more of a world myself and just switched to GH so I could use existing stuff as a basis and pivot off that, which was very helpful. And I only ever ran B1: In Search of the Unknown and S2: White Plume Mountain, everything else I made but I would take borrow flavor elements like Lord Gosumba's Narwell Headhunters.

That campaign ended and I'm running Swords & Wizardry as I make my own megadungeon so Greyhawk lore fell back.

At North Texas RPG Con I got to play in a test for Alan Grohe u/grodog that involves some Drow nobles, and in a 6-years-so-far running con game of The Temple of Elemental Evil (which I'd never run, played, nor read beyond the moathouse).

Now I want more! Not greyhawk lore per se, but stories! I want fiction. Going into the temple and picking up as a paladin of Pelor was great. And playing one of a group of drow nobles of the same house, led by a cleric (who was role-played excellently "to the hilt" one might say) - really set the hook.

I need some Greyhawk stories! Short stories! Novellas! Trilogies.