The latest session of my Dungeons & Dragons Greyhawk campaign was the first one of the series that we played on Roll20. We spent the first hour mucking around with the interface, the next two hours negotiating with the djinn, and spent the final hour finally fighting the Wind Dukes of Aaqa! The set-up is as follows: In an expedition to a magical cave, Paul’s … Continue reading Adventures in Greyhawk: Wind Dukes and Djinn
The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide has many fascinating sections in it. While it often fails to elucidate the rules in a clear manner, it’s nothing if not full of inspirational material for DMs. From glimpses of the sort of campaign that is proposed for Dungeons & Dragons, to manifold tables to help stock dungeons, towns and the wilderness with interesting monsters and … Continue reading Adventures in Greyhawk: Shrine to the Wind Dukes
My home campaign has returned to the war between Veluna and Ket. A prophecy given by the High Priestess of St Cuthbert has revealed that the key to stopping the conflict is somewhere on the Elemental Plane of Air, so that’s where the adventures have headed. The adventurers are about 9th level and don’t have the spells required to get there and back. So, they’ve … Continue reading Adventures in Greyhawk: The Elemental Plane of Air
One of the additions to the Dungeons & Dragons game during the 3E era was the prestige class of the Shadowdancer. They were pretty popular, and it was the goal of one of my players to become one. That led to some pretty amusing and entertaining game play. And, though the prestige class no longer exists, Monks who follow the Way of the Shadow can … Continue reading Shadow Dancers in the World of Greyhawk
Last Friday, I took my players on an excursion to a great peak in the Yatil Mountains – that’s just to the north of where they’re staying in Veluna. Why were they going there? Well, while they were staying in the Deepfathom Mine (found in Sly Flourish’s Fantastic Adventures), a stranger came to them with a tale of a friend who had disappeared on that … Continue reading Greyhawk – the Wind Dukes of Aaqa?
My recent Greyhawk sessions have been dominated by the brewing war between Ket and Veluna, which was provoked by the death of the High Priestess of Xan Yae on a trip to Veluna. I’ve been drawing on some Kobold Press products to find foes for the characters, and I settled on using the advanced Shadow Fey found in the Creature Codex. Xan Yae, as the … Continue reading Greyhawk – Invasion of the Shadow Fey
The World of Greyhawk is one of the oldest fantasy RPG settings, and grew out of the personal campaign of Gary Gygax, the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons. In previous articles, I’ve discussed its origins, and the updates to the setting. In this article, I’ll discuss its adventures. Many campaign settings are defined by their sourcebooks. Greyhawk rarely had a sourcebook, although some came out … Continue reading A Short Introduction to Greyhawk, part 3
I talked in part one of this series about the main themes of the Greyhawk boxed set released in 1983, which described the world in the year 576 CY . Over the next couple of decades of publication, several major events occurred in the World of Greyhawk, which led to the release in 2000 of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (591 CY in the campaign), the … Continue reading A Short Introduction to Greyhawk, part 2
My World of Greyhawk campaign has been interrupted of late by other matters, but we returned to it this week with a classic dungeon crawl. After the past two sessions of a city-based adventure, which had not gone as well as I’d wished, I felt it was time to return to a dungeon. Ah, but which dungeon? There are several megadungeons in my version of … Continue reading Greyhawk – Old Tomes and Killer Plants
My Greyhawk campaign continued this week with an adventure from The Mines of Chult. One of the things I try to do with my Greyhawk game is to run it in semi-sandbox mode. That is, every so often I ask my players what they want to do next. We’d finished the last session with the adventurers saving the town of Brusington from an undead monstrosity, … Continue reading The Mines of Greyhawk
