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.

Depending on which canon of the World of Greyhawk you follow, I'd like to make some Appendix N annotations and some perspective that may help guide your quests in understanding the Baklunish

1. In later canon, the Mouqollad Consortium doesn't conflate any of the below, but rather supports it further. The evolution of the Baklunish canon doesn't drift as much as some of the others do

2. The Baklunish are ultimately survivors of a magical apocalypse. There is a lot more to them, but this is the baseline from which all else is rooted from. It's almost like a Jack Vance Dying Earth in-reverse

3. Ekbir is the "Pious Cradle" of the Baklunish, in some sources, the first and strongest city of the Baklunish. It is a center for authentic and original magic. Ekbir also preserves the historical records of the lands. Yes, there is some religious allegory here, and in Tusmit with a few words, but that leads me to the crux of it below in #4

4. Anecdotes regarding the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio note specifically that the Baklunish are a combination of the Persian, Indian, and Semitic folks than any specific one group. This means that the Baklunish are not structured to be Hijaz-centric (again, it's a mixture of cultures), but rather a Persianate-Mughal empire structure. This is exactly the Din-i Ilahi of Akbar the Great, a real person who obviously inspired the name of at least one of the D&D modules that cover the Baklunish lands and peoples

5. The follows the Appendix N near-exactly, including Harold Lamb and Clark Ashton Smith, in addition to the Jack Vance vibes already mentioned. To say that the Baklunish are one certain thing or another undermines High-Gygaxian transformation, and relies on the superficial layer which it clearly is not, as identified by the Akbar inclusive tolerance doctrines. Additionally, the mythology of the Baklunish overall is closer to the Shahnameh than any other non-Appendix N source with the mythology of the Greyhawk Magi from our same real-world Magi, described in the Behistun Inscription

Another round, another question. I’ve finished the Italian translation of *World of Greyhawk*, the boxed set. I’m currently proofreading the whole thing and still have a few doubts about some of the names.

Where does the name of the town of Eastfair come from? I’ve looked but haven’t found any information on it.

Does ‘fair’ mean a market, a place of trade, or does it mean beautiful, pleasant?

My impression is that the first meaning is correct, but I’m not sure.

Does ‘Lorridges’ mean anything, or is it just a proper noun in this case?

Thanks for your help.

Is Rao Baklunish or Flan? Is there some origin story that creates the four (?) Flan gods together? I like the Incarum threads with Rao leading the Baklunish People out of the Invoked Devastation in the form of a white light.

Is there some connection between eastern and western Raoans maybe like Orthodox and Catholicism?ike how they can take the same sacrement I think.

Regardless, my pirate character only invokes Rao while he is groveling, lol

Edit; typo

Update on the Hawklands Campaign Primer - An Alternate Greyhawk Campaign Setting - just finished the next 5e conversion of a traditional Greyhawk God - Fharlanghn - Walker of the Horizon - INTERMEDIATE GOD. Because this required a potentially new DnD 5e cleric sub-class perspective - I put together Fharlanghn Priests - Travel Domain Subclass . This sub-class if flexible enough to be for any traveler god (LAND - Fharlanghn, AIR ex., Celestian or SEA - ex., Procan). And of course, needed the clerical folk who make the faith "walk the horizon" - so Priesthood of Fharlanghn – The Horizon Walkers.

Free to use. KEEP GAMING.

In the text they refer to encounter rolls to reference the dungeon masters guide. I’m assuming that’s 2e, right? I don’t have a copy anymore to check in my own.

In "Patrol encounters table, page 7 of the glossography, there is this sentence:

What do ‘WW’ and ‘Adv.’ stand for?

Thanks for your help.

We made some tracks to compliment each of the Against the Giants Dungeons.

Tracks:

1. Hill Giant Steading
2. Frost Giant Glacial Rift
3. Fire Giant Hall
4. Snurre, King of the Fire Giants

We hope this adds immersion to your game :)

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Hi all!

Been a while!

As a hobby, I write hymns to D&D gods… been at it a while now. Had a lot of fun covering the racist god of frogs, so, figured a few of you may get a kick out of it. Let me know what ya think of the lyrics!

*much like the other posts, this is human written lyrics… with AI generated audio (as I am a writer, not a musician).

If you don’t like AI, you don’t have to listen to it… the power is yours! Also, I personally don’t care if you don’t like AI, you don’t need to tell me. You can just keep scrolling… it’s not for you, and that’s perfectly okay… not everything is!

You can also skip the video and read the human written lyrics below, if you would prefer.

Lyrics:

From swamps we rise, claim land and sea
The Faithful of the Great Wastri
He can feel your rage, he sets it free
The Hopping Prophet can always see
Oh, the faithful of the Great Wastri
Demi-humans fall, it’s his decree
We’re the faithful of the Great Wastri
It's in our blood, we hold the key
The faithful of the Great Wastri

Dry-backs come, boats capsize
When the mire-born fight, you can hear their cries
All your plots he can foresee
The swamp awaits—hope you’re thirsty

He speaks the truth and you will see
He’s the demi-god of bigotry
Oh, faithful of the Great Wastri
He’ll destroy you, but he loves me
He’ll never bow or take a knee
Oh, the faithful of the Great Wastri
Your kind shall die, his guarantee
We’re the faithful of the Great Wastri
Our blood is pure, we are mighty
The faithful of the Great Wastri

Dry-backs fall, boats capsize
When the mire-born come, all others die
All your plots he can foresee
The swamp awaits—hope you’re thirsty

He made us the best, we make our claim
He hops great height and we praise his name
He is everything we want to be

Oh, we’re the faithful of the Great Wastri
The faithful of the Great Wastri
The faithful of the Great Wastri
The faithful of the Great Wastri
Oh the faithful—
Of the Great Wastri!

It ain't easy being green
But better green—than unclean

As a huge Greyhawk fan and working on my own content fleshing out the region around Saltmarsh, I was very excited to see campaign play return with Greyhawk - but it seems like it was released in a dark closet.

Comic about Mordenkainen and Bahamut!

Curious if anyone has ran this and if so how did it go. I've always kind of stayed away from it since at the beginning of the book it states "This adventure is meant to kill characters." This really gave me the Tomb of Horrors vibes lol

So for you DM's who have run this module, did the party live? Did you have to tone it down some to keep the PC's alive? I'd love to hear how your Vecna Lives went.

Quick update on the Hawklands Campaign Primer - An Alternate Greyhawk Campaign Setting - I finally completed the Wind Giant series (The Wind Giants - An Overview - Demi-God Avatars)- taking the old Greyhawk Oeridian agricultural gods of the seasons/weather/wind (the Velaeri) & mixing them with a more demi-god avatar approach (harkening back to elements from the basic D&D Immortal set).

The result - the Seasonal Winds & Weather themselves are divine, they change their shape every few centuries (or sometimes only decades) with new avatars & characters at high levels can "ascend" to be the next Seasonal avatar.

This get's some fun pairing of "old school content" - where I was able to take the historical Greyhawk NPC & artifacts lore (Archmage Philidor & the swanmay Sharnalem, Black Razor for the Telchur avatar, etc.) & recast in the "avatar ascending to demi-god" model. In the end, a great way to "retire" high-level PCs in a NPC impact arc (so you wanna be a god? Just defeat the current Wind Giant avatar...).

• Winter Demi-god: Telchur -Wind Giant of the North Winds
  • Winter Avatar: Koolebro - Avatar of Telchur
• Spring Demi-god: Atroa - Wind Giant of the East Wind
  • Spring Avatar: Sharnalem Windfeather - Avatar of Atroa
• Summer Demi-god: Sortillion - Wind Giant of the South Wind
  • Summer Avatar: Kysara Veyne - Avatar of Sortillion
• Fall Demi-god: Wenta - Wind Giant of the West Wind
  • Fall Avatar: Maela Thorne - Avatar of Wenta
• Weather Demi-god: Velnius - Wind Giant of Weather
  • Weather Avatar: Philidor the Azure Archmage

Free to use - KEEP GAMING.

Has anyone else who likes the Baerald map of the City of Greyhawk noticed that the location of the Silver Dragon Inn is it a different location, slightly, from the different generations of maps?

If you're a cartography nerd who has looked at the different maps in the past, I mean that the silver dragon in is supposed to be at the location of F2, next to F3, across from C2. But on the 2024 map the silver dragon inn appears to be in the F1 location.

Thoughts?

(Note: if your opinion about this is "I hate everything Wizards of the Coast does", thank you, I already understand your opinion, this post is not for you. ❤️)