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| | Greyhawk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game, Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is one of the game's oldest campaign settings. | | | World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983). | | | At the center of this game world, the Free City of Greyhawk is a free city of the Flanaess, originally under the domination of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhawk
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| | The result was that a product which should be on every Greyhawk gamer's shelf (the history) -- and could have been for $5-7 -- is not possessed by many players because they (rightly) didn't want to spend the money on the game as well. | | | I eventually gave up and decided that I would instead learn the subtleties of Greyhawk in which to better prepared for surprise teleportations of group of players who suddenly decided they wanted to see what was in the Jungles of Chult or the Valley of the Mage or... | | | I had very little faith that after making such a big cheat as they did with Greyhawk Castle that TSR could even recover some of my respect. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/rpg/rating10.txt
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| | Opera Directory |
| | Contains information on Saltmarsh, house rules, and rules for playing in Greyhawk using the Hero system. | | | Includes dynamically generated Greyhawk calendar, maps, house rules, character stats, painted minis and dungeons used in weekly campaign. | | | Includes a map of the Flanaess, javascript game aids, a history of Greyhawk, and new magical items. |
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http://portal.opera.com/web?cat=7185
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| | Maldin's Greyhawk - Melkotia Castle |
| | He also magically "hardened" many of the city's and castle's key weak points, such as the various gates. | | | Upper planar creatures tend to be quickly set upon by the larger numbers of lower planars, who then generally turn on themselves. | | | What the archmage accomplished those two decades cannot even be guessed at. |
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http://melkot.com/locations/melkot/melkotia-castle.html
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| | World of Greyhawk Bibliography |
| | The exceptions are G1-2-3 and D1-2, which have all the original information in practically the original format, plus extra information (pre-rolled player characters). | | | Out of it grew the published DandD rules and later the ADandD rules, and also a rich fantasy world setting called the World of Greyhawk. | | | Frank Mentzer's Aquaria introduces a new continent set in the same world. |
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http://ulmo.mux.net/greyhawk
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| | Living Greyhawk: Theocracy of the Pale |
| | This mini-scenario and Here There Be Dragons refer to places and events in the LG series "Windows to the Serpent's Soul." It is not required that the players be familiar or play that series, but doing so may add some enjoyment and continuity to the Special and this lead-in. | | | This mini-scenario should be played with Living Greyhawk characters based on the campaign's normal guidelines. | | | Though not required, players should have played River of Blood prior to playing this adventure. |
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http://www.theocracyofthepale.com/scenarios/scenarios-retired.html
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| | EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - Castle Greyhawk? |
| | I wonder how true to the original castle it is (did the designers run thru the orignal game with Garry) or is it made from scratch. | | | I'd say it's like Undermountain for the Realms, a big dungeon all laid out and detailed for the DM, but he has to invent the reason for the PC's to go there and what the point of it all is. | | | Maybe someday, if the money is worthwhile enough for them to make it a serious project, they will do it. |
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http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=62635
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| | Our Campaign: The History of Oerth |
| | All optional rules for Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons and Dragons game and the d20 gaming engine are governed by the guidelines of the Open Gaming License and the copyright laws of the United States of America. | | | They furthermore include various events specific to my gaming group's campaigns, so note that these events are not necessarily official Greyhawk history. | | | Sylgias Whitethorn and William Pickering begin exploring the Temple of Elemental Evil. |
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http://www.sodabob.com/roleplay/dnd/History/History3.asp
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| | Greyhawk Adventures WebRing |
| | A greyhawk related site containing PC and NPC stats, information about Dyvers, new spells and magical items and more... | | | A site designed to help players, and DMs with the information on Greyhawk, and the lands of Oerth. | | | This site is dedicated to a character I created and played in AD&D from about 1979 until 1995. |
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http://c.webring.com/hub?ring=greyhawk
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| | Greyhawk, Grodog Style |
| | Greyhawk's Tournament Scenario History: A listing of known DandD tournaments, including those set in the World of Greyhawk, and their subsequent publication as DandD modules (if any). | | | I grew up on Greyhawk, like many gamers who began to play | | | I'll list them out, then see what theories we can draw about Oerik's plate tectonics (if any). |
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http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/greyhawk.html
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| | Korel's Journal |
| | Most likely it will not threaten Greyhawk if it is as intelligent as dragons are supposed to be, but there is no telling what it may do if rage at losing its treasure blinds it to the dangers. | | | Incidentally, the expedition was a complete success: we recovered all three of the artifacts and escaped without serious injury, even though we had to go through all five healing potions. | | | I found it nearly deserted, but still in a bustle of activity -- catching hold of a passing servant, I asked what was going on. |
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http://www.edkeyes.org/fiction/journal.html
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| | Role Playing Games Links |
| | Greyhawk Chronicles, The (Fansite about Troika game Temple of Elemental Evil) | | | Council of Greyhawk, The or here (No more updated - Oerth Journals 1-7, Players Guide - Erik Mona aka Iquander) | | | Brian's ADandD House Rules (PGG's history of Greyhawk) |
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/froon/Links/Role.htm
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| | Suckers for Punishment (back to the caverns and the Magic Circle) |
| | And there is a good chance that we will go to Greyhawk. | | | I believe (I think it was Timor) that Timor has something when he says that it may go to Greyhawk. | | | We seem to have a fail safe plan in case we go somewhere we don't want to, with the wishes. |
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http://members.aol.com/dmchaz/sb12.htm
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| | Grodog's Greyhawk Castle Archive: Grodog's Version of Greyhawk Castle |
| | Choice Hirelings = certain NPCs have been in and out of the Castle with various groups of characters; some switch groups/"sides" on a per-excursion basis (and are sometimes bribed for knowledge of/about other groups too): | | | In general, the graffiti follows the pattern of Verb [Noun] Number Letter Number combination [Noun] then "Fox" or "The Fox" as a signature. | | | Greyhawk Castle lore to use, fleshed out, in an actual DandD game? |
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http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_castle_grodog.html
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| | Lord Robilar & Co. |
| | Robilar was one of the first to make it around the Oerth. | | | Robilar and the Temple of Elemental Evil: The Temple of Elemental Evil campaign was designed by Gary Gygax to introduce new players into the Greyhawk campaign. | | | During this time, Robilar was a perilous adventurer, often going without maps and using a ring of invisibility to adventure into the depths of the castle to investigate and ambush his enemies. |
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http://ulmo.mux.net/greyhawk/robilar.html
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| | RPG Now: AD&D Greyhawk |
| | Home : ROLE PLAYING : AD&D 2nd Ed. : AD&D Greyhawk |
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http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=1_294_309&&thumbskip=1
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| | WOG Items |
| | PT99 - Greyhawk Adventure Novel #6, The Name of the Game - MINT, unread. | | | G662 - Greyhawk Player's Guide - Near Mint, slight wear. | | | 9578 - Greyhawk Player's Guide - MINT $13.95 |
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http://www.dragontrove.com/grey.html
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| | Castle Greyhawk |
| | The common theme to this dungeon is that no joke is so old, no pun is so bad, and no schtick is so obvious that it can't be used to confuse and trip up PCs! | | | Sell your stuff or turn those old games into new! | | | The adventures can be played seperately or all together as a grand quest to free Castle Greyhawk from the evil, rotten hordes that are plaguing it. |
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http://www.nobleknight.com/productdetailsearch.asp_Q_ProductID_E_1946_A_InventoryID_E_2147428852
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| | Moonrise.org: A Visit to GenCon 2004 |
| | This year, GenCon went to three slots a day rather than four, so it was much more civilized judging or playing in all of them. | | | I was fortunate (?) enough to run each version once. | | | (This was the Living Greyhawk special event for GenCon this year.) There were four versions of it, two high-level and two low-level (the maps were different between the versions, as were the encounters). |
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http://www.moonrise.org/print/gencon04.shtml
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| | Living Greyhawk: Garret Jones |
| | For the kiss of a beautiful women, and a LUCKY COPPER COIN (how often do YOU see anyone with a copper coin on Greyhawk?), took a sucidel misson into the lands of IUZ. | | | -2 Bluff and Diplomacy in the city of Greyhawk thanks to party bard singing bad songs about him (see above, story of the magic ring and the stealer of the party treasure). | | | Got a free reserection out of it too...is sure he'll need that someday soon too. |
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http://perrenland.lythia.com/character.php?CharId=d3f8f30832e435440b135283d1a8b079
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| | Annotated Chronology 2.0 |
| | These attempts brought the various clans together in a loose association under the banner of the strongest of their number, Perren. | | | Castle Tax introduced by Ivid I. Outside of "strategic" areas bordering on other states, a tax on stone castles and keeps was introduced. | | | Editor's Note: Given that T1-4 should take place in 579CY, the keep in Hommlet cannot be completed in 576 CY. |
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http://www.afn.org/~afn09454/greyhawk/timeline/annotated_chronology.html
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| | Castle Greyhawk bodycount |
| | Do not read if you are going to partake in Castle Greyhawk adventure! | | | Notes: From level 5 and on, most PCs were resurrected, but appear in the list nonethless. |
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http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/marjola/rc/greyhawk.html
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| | Modules in the World of Greyhawk |
| | The consequence of the Wars are detailed in the Greyhawk Wars boxed set, as well as future products (From the Ashes, Player's Guide to Greyhawk, the Adventure Begins) | | | Rufus and Berne completed their castle in 581 CY. | | | A generic module that should not have been tied to the World of Greyhawk setting |
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http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/greyhawk/modules.html
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| | The Geography of Greyhawk |
| | The World of Oerth aka the World of Greyhawk | | | City of Greyhawk, aka the Free City of Greyhawk. | | | First, there are several locations that are known by the moniker "Greyhawk" and they are often confused. |
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http://www.the-starshadow.com/greyhawk_geography.htm
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| | Dragonsfoot :: View topic - EGG's Castle Zagyg/Greyhawk Campaign |
| | We normally ignored the central winding staircase that we found on the first level based on the fact that when you go deeper, you find nastier creatures. | | | Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group | | | So, after the usual rest and proper healing, it was time to head back to the castle. |
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http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9771
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| | RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming |
| | Carl Sargent did what he could to reverse that in From The Ashes, and the LGG Team obviously decided that, rather than declaring a flawed version of GH as canon, they'd rather not cover it at all. | | | In EGG's upcoming Castle Greyhawk adaption (forgot the name, he isn't allowed to call it Greyhawk) there will probably be some additional info on the "real" Gh. | | | If you read the Gord the Rogue novels, you get an idea of what greyhawk should have looked like. |
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http://www.rpg.net/forums/phorum/rf08/read.php?f=2218&i=8&t=5
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| | Kendall Ogrebane, Scourge of Haranshire |
| | Kendall, ever looking for ways to get rich quick, decided to join up with these other brave people, figuring he could always hide behind one of them if the going got tough. | | | The game runs under the name Dark Times and a website for the game can be found here. | | | Kendall and his comrade had to resort to cutting purses in Old City to survive and they made a good team. |
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http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~christkk/rpg/Kendall.shtml
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| | Merric's Greyhawk Campaign: April 2005 |
| | The group, minus D'arcy and Dana, who had decided to stay in Irongate, arrived in the Free City of Greyhawk. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | These three individuals had arisen to prominence due to their adventures in the ruins of Castle Greyhawk. |
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http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/greyhawk/2005_04_01_archive.html
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| | Gord's Greyhawk: The Greyhawk Lands |
| | He rarely carries the goods with him, so as to avoid being sacked by robbers. | | | "'Greyhawk Castle', for example, has over a dozen levels in succession downwards, more than that number branching from these, and not less than two new levels under construction at any given time. | | | Tenser, Robilar, Teric/Terik, Murlynd, etc.) now few go to the castle, but untouched wealth lies deep within. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/greyhawk.html
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| | Chris Brooks - Monday, 23 August 2004 |
| | Even though the difficulty of this adventure was tunable to our average player level (APL), it was still quite difficult and we didn't get very far. | | | Think of it as a massively multiplayer RPG without the computers. | | | Our adventure was Castle Greyhawk, a module that is designed to handle a wide range of player levels. |
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http://www.chrisbrooks.org/default,date,2004-08-23.aspx
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| | The Journals of Ninean Grey |
| | What a strange place this is… sentient ducks, flying spike-shelled snails, half-height minotaurs, walking sharks… We go to sleep and still have no peace. | | | Moonday, 24 Coldeven: We go to Castle Greyhawk this day. | | | I remember how Rynn rid us of the first troll we met, in Castle Greyhawk, and I invoked the fires of My Lady, and they burned the trolls with a thick black stinking smoke. |
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http://www.leodream.com/peter/hobby/journal.html
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| | Greyhawk -- Out of Print Books |
| | The Name of the Game (Greyhawk Adventures, No 6) | | | Child's Play (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Greyhawk Adventure Module) | | | Saga of Old City (Greyhawk Adventures Novels, Book 1) |
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http://www.non.com/books/Greyhawk_cu.html
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| | Amazon.com: Greyhawk Ruins (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons module WGR1): Books: Troy Denning |
| | Falconmaster, the second in a series of three ADandD Second Edition adventures, is a bland adventure full of boring opponents. | | | This adventure illistrates why the Greyhawk Adventures line of products from TSR can't keep its head above water. | | | This is the COMPLETE adventure throughout the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk itself - for levels 2-15 and beyond! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0880388609?v=glance
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| | Harvester CY578 |
| | He also places the letter that he found as Tim in the future back in the place where he will find it. | | | Sells his +2 shield to Keilbasa for 1750 and a potion of Gaseous Form. | | | Three Trolls are seen checking out the area near the entrance to the dungeon, but they go back in almost immediately. They then leisurely walk back to Greyhawk City. |
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http://users.accesscomm.ca/arcturus/classic/harvester578.htm
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| | Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Archive: Greyhawk: Greyhawk Ruins |
| | All you need is the ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 2nd Edition role-playing game, nerves of steel, and the resolve to challenge the puzzles and powers the ruins have to offer! | | | Greyhawk Ruins is designed for five to seven characters of levels 2 to 15. | | | Greyhawk Ruins is a complete guide to the most famous dungeon in the WORLD OF GREYHAWK campaign setting. |
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http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/gh/gh-wgr1.htm
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| | Product Description - Greyhawk |
| | The Hand and Eye of Vecna have been found - and Vecna wants them back. | | | First, you find yourselves in the city of Gnarley Wood, fending off minions of the evil leprechaun who dwells there. | | | But don't be fooled: This is more than just a travelogue. |
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http://www.hitpointe.com/tsr/info/infogh.htm
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| | Greyhawk Adventure |
| | So there must be a usurper on the trone, so like Iuz himself that people say it is him. | | | Modenkainen sought out all out, as the need for a balancing force in the world is great, and each of you has joined (though for different reasons). | | | The year is 561, and it is but a few months since you all joined together to form what will be the first of Greyhawk's great groups of adventures: the Citatel of Eight. |
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http://www.anand.com.br/greyhawk
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| | Bastard Greyhawk Timeline |
| | 200 CY Greyhawk becomes a walled city and the Grand Citadel is rebuilt as a huge stone fortress with a large garrison of Aerdy troops. | | | About this time, the Rhennee [150] first appear in Greyhawk. | | | The powerful wizard Allreynen the Gripper attempts to destroy the death knight Sir Rezinar, but is slain in the attempt, though Rezinar loses a hand. |
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http://homepages.ius.edu/rvest/Greyhawk/GHTimeline.html
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| | Provinces |
| | Greyhawk is ruled by its Lord Mayor; this individual is chosen by the Directing Oligarchy. | | | Both the North and South Provinces are under the suzerainty of Aerdi royal houses and are ruled almost as independent states. | | | The original capital, Blackmoor, and its castle were sacked and ruined some years ago, but extensive labyrinths are supposed to exist under these ruins. |
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http://www.sonic.net/~hezleigh/d&d/Greyhawk/Geography/provinces.htm
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| | Chapter 145 of The Adventurers |
| | (reluctantly hands over his staff) I would have hoped that Peldor might have made his rules different from every other classy inn of Greyhawk. | | | Peldor: And he didn't even see my place yet! | | | Ged: (wanders out of the castle, pointing upward) There's my main gate. |
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http://www.peldor.com/chapters/story145.html
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| | EX1-2. Dungeonland and The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror |
| | Castle Greyhawk’s assortment of villains -- Col. Sanders, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the cast of Star Trek, and others -- would be more in keeping with a bad episode of Scooby Doo than a dungeon crawl. | | | The truth, especially given the freelance talent involved, is more likely to be that someone thought it a good idea at the time. | | | Gary Gygax, the father of DandD, runs a party of battle-hardened adventurers through the dungeons of Castle Greyhawk when, falling down a very deep hole, they stumble upon a very strange level indeed, populated by a senile magic-user polymorphed into a anthropomorphic White Rabbit and other suspiciously familiar characters. |
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http://www.wizards.com/dnd/DND_EX.asp
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| | Metamorphosis Alpha - Dragon Magazine # 17 |
| | When last winters tedium was broken by the fun and games at WINTER FANTASY, I was scheduled for DMing continual adventures in Greyhawk Castle, and that is exactly what they turned out to be continual. | | | Frantic letters and telephone calls from Mark Ratner were to no avail; determination of the fate of the nine intrepid creatures from Greyhawk could be resolved no sooner. | | | Mark, being headquartered in New Jersey, was unavailable for play, so we had Brian Blume fill in for him. |
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http://www.metamorphosisalpha.com/dragon17.html
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| | Greyhawk Ruins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is set in the world of Greyhawk and describes the ruins of and dungeons under Castle Greyhawk. | | | It was written by Blacke Mobley and Timothy B. Brown and is a more serious take on the Castle Greyhawk dungeons than the 1988 module WG7 Castle Greyhawk. | | | Cover art by Fred Fields and interior art by Thomas Baxa, Mark Nelson and David Simons. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhawk_Ruins
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| | Flocktime CY578 |
| | Loreen meets the Herzog and is so bored with the accounts of the deeds of the Herzog's ancestors and the many court intrigues advanced by Bart, that she is violently ill. | | | They sit around for 12 days while the magic_users in the party copy spells and do research, etc. | | | The three odd travelling companions joined forces and travelled by caravan to Castle Greyhawk, where Bart assured the young Half_Wood_Elf that some adventurers could be found to help her find the potion to save her Grammps. |
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http://users.accesscomm.ca/arcturus/classic/flocktime578.htm
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| | Erac's Cousin |
| | In the original Greyhawk campaign, the fighter/magic-user know as Erac's Cousin (played by Ernie Gygax) managed to acquire two powerful vorpal swords. | | | So with both Gary and Rob Co-DMing, Erac's Cousin and the 9th level fighter Ayelerach (played by Mark Ratner) entered the dungeons beneath Castle Greyhawk. | | | Both Gary and Rob decided that his character had become way too powerful, especially considering the fact that he possessed the ability to use both weapons at the same time. |
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http://www.tc.umn.edu/~monax002/Council/OJ5/erac.html
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| | World of Greyhawk Reference Series |
| | One of several series of modules (including the WG and WGA series) set in the ADandD Greyhawk campaign world (detailed in the World of Greyhawk Campaign set). | | | is based on Greyhawk castle, which was previously covered (albeit by multiple authors, in a humorous setting) in WG7 Castle Greyhawk. | | | WGR1 takes a serious approach and is generally regarded as the superior effort. |
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http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/ModPages/WGR.html
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| | SKitten-Writings: Episodic or Continuing Stories: Elea - The Setting |
| | The only real loser in the war is Nyrond, having lost the entire area of it's country known as:The North Lands. | | | Both sides have bled each other white and a new Truce/Treaty is signed in the city of Greyhawk on the 12th of Reaping CY 662. | | | Large area of the Vesve Forest is destroyed (Defiled Glades) Killing many well known leaders. |
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http://skitten.best.vwh.net/campaign/campaign01.html
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| | World of Greyhawk Series |
| | The first series of modules set in the World of Greyhawk campaign, for ADandD (along with the companion WGA and WGR series). | | | WG5 Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure has a glaring spelling error on the cover of the module booklet: "Word of Greyhawk" in large letters. | | | WG7 Castle Greyhawk is a compilation of humorous dungeon levels; the same castle was treated more seriously in WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins. |
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http://www.acaeum.com/DDIndexes/ModPages/WG.html
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