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MuscledDestroyer
Sergeant
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Prospect Park, Pa
 | | 10/12/2006 7:13 PM |
| | I have never purchased a module or campaign setting for Greyhawk. I always thought it seemed cool. 1.- Does Wizards have 3.5 version of it or would I have to buy old and convert it? 2.- Do you like it ? 3.- Was that the first campaign world? | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 10/12/2006 7:35 PM |
| | I'm no Greyhawk expert, but I know that there is a v3.5 version supported, as it is the main living campaign being run at the moment | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 10/12/2006 7:43 PM |
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Greyhawk is the generic campaign setting of D&D. WHat you see in books is genreally set in that world a lot of the time. If you are looking for a specific box set, there is none as of yet, so it has to be converted. The closest to a campaign book is the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, which is more about the world as of 5 years ago than about mods. However, you can play in the world right now by playing in the Living Greyhawk campaign of the RPGA, which is a regionalaly based campaign (the state you live in decides what country your character lives in most of the time) with one year real life = one year in the world. Check it out.
Before I started playing LG, I didn't much like Greyhawk, since it really is filled with a lot of Gary Gygax's home campaign influences (Gygax being the creator of D&D and Greyhawk the setting for his games). For instance Zagyg, god of Magic is Gygax spelled backwards. Drawmij is player Jim Ward, etc. Playing in LG and really getting sucked into the flavor of my home region (Geoff, which is based around the Against the Giants concept) I really ejoy it a lot, but modules vary on quality of author.
As for first campaign world, I think it was Gygax's first world, but I don't think it was the first published world. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was the mods of the original D&D (which in its last incarnation had the red Basic Box, the Expert Blue Box, the Companion Box, the Master Black Box, the Immortal White Box sets) and later was called Mystara. | |
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MuscledDestroyer
Sergeant
435 Posts
Prospect Park, Pa
| | 10/12/2006 8:58 PM |
| | Thank you ! I remember when I was a kid I used to see the Greyhawk box well before Dragonlance and I never had enough to buy it. It always had dust on it . Not to say it was bad but it did cost a little more than the books at the time. When you allowance is 10 or 5 bucks a week you don't take chances on sealed box. | |
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IanB
Commander
3112 Posts
| | 10/13/2006 11:55 AM |
| You might just want to grab a copy of the 1983 boxed set from paizo.com. The PDF download of it isn't very expensive. That would be the best introduction to the setting, in my opinion. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 10/13/2006 3:31 PM |
| Yeah, a lot of these box sets and maps, especially for the city of Greyhawk, are still being used in LG and continually being referenced to.
My gaming group's first game in 3.0 was an update of Castle Greyhawk from 2nd ed. Boy did we make so many mistakes. | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
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Oryan77
Sergeant
950 Posts
| | 10/13/2006 6:12 PM |
| Posted By MuscledDestroyer on 10/12/2006 8:58 PM
When you allowance is 10 or 5 bucks a week you don't take chances on sealed box.
$5-$10 bucks a week? That's crazy!
My parents gave me $1 a week, then raised it to $2 a week....this was the late 80's & early 90's. No wonder I didn't get into D&D until 1995...I must have known I couldn't afford anything in that section of the store.
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 10/13/2006 6:15 PM |
| | I'd kill for $5-10 a week during the 80's. I had a quarter for the beginning of the decade, and basically had to ask for gaming stuff as presents for birthdays and Christmas. | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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qstor
Sneak
135 Posts
| | 10/15/2006 8:37 AM |
| | I'd pick up the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. It has the most current information on the setting.
Most of the old 1e modules like the Giants series and the D series are set in Greyhawk. So those are actually Greyhawk mods.
Mike | |
We walk in the dark places no others will enter.
We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.
We live for the one, we die for the one. | |
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PatEllis15
Commander
4458 Posts
| | 10/16/2006 10:04 AM |
| Hrm....
Greyhawk is an excellent setting. There are wacky names in every setting, so I'm not sure what the put off of Zagyg, and Drawmijj is (there are TONS of other anagrams as well...).
The LGG is basically all of the "fluff" that you would expect from a campaign setting sourcebook (ala the Eberron Campaign Setting hardcover, or the FR campaign setting book...). What it does not have is much in the way of "crunch" (i.e. new weapons, rules, spells, feats, skills, prestige classes, etc.).
It is the current iteration of the setting.
Buying the 83 boxed set or the 2nd edition "From the Ashes" boxed set via PDF at Paizo will provide you much more of the history.
I would also direct you to www.canonfire.com.
Greyhawk is the perfect D&D work from my take. There is magic, but not too much. There are powerful NPC's, but not a ton, and they stay out of the way. The Bad guys sometimes win, the world is full of the unknown, the PC's are the hero's etc. etc.
Give it a try, you won't regret it.
Pat E | |
"Games evolve. Otherwise we'd still be pushing rocks around the dirt. What do you think the cavemen said when some dude showed up with sticks?" - Chairman7w | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 10/16/2006 7:24 PM |
| | I'd highly recommend again anyone who hasn't done it and is interested in Greyhawk to play Living Greyhawk. It's dynamic and any player, no matter what level, can influence the world. | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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Black Flame Zealot
Sneak
102 Posts
| | 10/30/2006 3:29 PM |
| I recommend it as well. 
Seriously, Living Greyhawk is a great way to get involved in the World of Greyhawk. You'll learn a lot about the history of the world, as well as have a great time playing adventures set all over Oerth.
Head to www.wizards.com/lg for more information! | |
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wildmage
Sneak
123 Posts
| | 10/31/2006 2:54 PM |
| Posted By gss_000 on 10/13/2006 6:15 PM
I'd kill for $5-10 a week during the 80's. I had a quarter for the beginning of the decade, and basically had to ask for gaming stuff as presents for birthdays and Christmas.
A quarter a week? We used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the bloody road. We had to wake up before we went to bed, eat cold gravel for breakfast, hot gravel for lunch, and we got to move the shoebox out of the way of a speeding truck for dinner. One time a car drove by and threw a Greyhawk boxed set out the window! Why, we had a new home until we had to move again to the bottom of a sewer tank. But at least we got to do some gaming in-between not sleeping, working our arms off cleaning the tank, and eating what we couldn't clean.
...for the Monty Python fans out there.
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Champion of the Bone Naga
(There's just so much roleplaying to be done with a large skeletal snake!) | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 10/31/2006 4:41 PM |
| LOL! Wow, that really sounded crotchedy, didn't it.
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Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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Ghendar
Warlord
10836 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 11/02/2006 7:26 AM |
| Posted By wildmage on 10/31/2006 2:54 PM Posted By gss_000 on 10/13/2006 6:15 PM
I'd kill for $5-10 a week during the 80's. I had a quarter for the beginning of the decade, and basically had to ask for gaming stuff as presents for birthdays and Christmas. A quarter a week? We used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the bloody road. We had to wake up before we went to bed, eat cold gravel for breakfast, hot gravel for lunch, and we got to move the shoebox out of the way of a speeding truck for dinner. One time a car drove by and threw a Greyhawk boxed set out the window! Why, we had a new home until we had to move again to the bottom of a sewer tank. But at least we got to do some gaming in-between not sleeping, working our arms off cleaning the tank, and eating what we couldn't clean. ...for the Monty Python fans out there. 
"And the we tied an onion to our belts, cause that was the style at the time..........." | |
On vacation 6/29 - 7/5
Leaning towards giving 4e the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 11/02/2006 2:21 PM |
| I'm glad my post is genereating so much humor at my expense.  | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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qstor
Sneak
135 Posts
| | 11/21/2006 12:10 PM |
| Posted By Black Flame Zealot on 10/30/2006 3:29 PM I recommend it as well.
Seriously, Living Greyhawk is a great way to get involved in the World of Greyhawk. You'll learn a lot about the history of the world, as well as have a great time playing adventures set all over Oerth.
Head to www.wizards.com/lg for more information!
So are we going to get the Living Greyhawk Journal again? Hunh Hunh
Mike | |
We walk in the dark places no others will enter.
We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.
We live for the one, we die for the one. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 11/22/2006 12:53 PM |
| | That'd be cool. I'd love to hear what is happening in other regions. If people can, I'd recommend Winter Fantasy or whatever it is being called this year. It's primarily RPGA events and minis (D&D mostly) but there you can play specials and in one slot any willing judge can run any game from his own region. It's a great way to experience a range of flavors. | |
Completed trades: blackthorne, Drakkengi,Thorgrin, Ironfist Boulderbender x2, ckissee, nasamonkey, Username, Star, Ace13 x3, emontedodger x2, Drconveyor, church, Joeyb, Sir Bozak The Damned, Xeromod, the other guy x2, Qucalion of Celene, Dagaron x2, berus316, qillan_dvra, AshloreDarkShadow
For further info go to My Reference Thread and Trade Interface
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