It began back in the late 80s, when I was invited to play in a AD&D campaign run by a fellow, Bruce, from a school I’d left and my brother still attended. Thinking back all these years now, I have no idea how it happened that we all lobbed together, but there we were – Bruce as DM, myself, my brother and one other playing … Continue reading A history – of sorts – of my Greyhawk campaigns (part 1)
My Greyhawk campaign had a fairly successful session yesterday, with Martin’s new character (a druid) being the perfect new character for the adventure I’d planned: a delve into the cairn of an old druid leader. We were operating out of Diamond Lake (yes, the Diamond Lake that the players had experienced from the Paizo’s Age of Worms adventure path), and I’ve introduced the character of Balabar … Continue reading Under and over the (o)earth
Our last session of the Friday Greyhawk campaign was not one of my better efforts. It didn’t help that I had a couple of players missing (pulling out at the last moment), nor that I was dreadfully tired. It was also a transition session, where we changed between one style of campaign plot to another. Urgh. We had four short (and quite boring) combats, plus … Continue reading Greyhawk Campaigning
I ran two campaigns in the County of Ulek between 2001 and 2007, using similar themes: the invasion of the county by the “Fhoi Myore”, deformed giants (read Fomorians) with mystical powers, drawing heavily on Celtic mythology and the works of Michael Moorcock. The County of Ulek was the homeland of my original AD&D character, Meliander Corthan, and material I developed for his background made … Continue reading Greyhawk – In the County of Ulek
More old articles that I wrote in 2001. Boy, that’s a long time ago now. I wasn’t 30 yet! In terms of dating, these are just before the Greyhawk Wars, circa 581 C.Y. My current campaigns are set in 596 C.Y. or thereabouts. TRITHEREON The Temple of Trithereon lies in the River Quarter of the City of Greyhawk, attended by only a very small clergy. … Continue reading Greyhawk – Trithereon, Heironeous, Zilchus and Hextor
No, not really. Just according to these really stupid Amazon stats I pulled from their site. Continue reading Castle Greyhawk (AD&D joke module) outselling Pathfinder!
I posted a number of articles on Canonfire in the past. I’d like to put another copy up in my blog just in case CF disappears. So, here is a pair of linked Greyhawk articles which may have relevance to current campaigns… The Church of Xan-Yae (September 2001) The Church of Xan-Yae never had a strong following in the City of Greyhawk. A few years ago, … Continue reading The Church of Xan-Yae
The latest session of the Castle Greyhawk campaign saw Bradford’s dwarven cleric Floyyd suffer death at the hands of a few orcs serving Iuz (minions now of Adam’s traitorous warlock, Archibald). The group had been hired by Grey College to investigate the one-time mansion of Zagyg, which he lived in while his castle was built. Rich’s paladin was absent for this session. They avoided a … Continue reading Castle Greyhawk
Floydd and Rich’s paladin went shopping via PM before last session. As the paladin and the cleric wandered from place to place (followed by a complaining porter with a handcart), they became aware of a woman following them – she was dressed in good clothes which were now tattered and torn. After their dealings in the gallery, she gathered the courage to approach them: it seemed … Continue reading Betrayal in Greyhawk
I’ve ordered the Upper Works of CZ from the Troll Lords, so, with any luck, that will soon be winging its way to me from the states. This will give me quite a bit of detail on the upper section of the castle, which I’ve never ever done any development work on. (It’s always been ruined so my players have just gone straight to the dungeons). … Continue reading Castle Zagyg
