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Purchased! Planning a 5e D&D Greyhawk campaign that starts with the PCs protecting a rag tag group of survivors from a humanoid raid originating from the Pomarj on their hometown. They are traveling the wilderness trying to reach the Principality of Ulek and safety. Any suggestions? I'm going to limit the allowable races and character classes significantly, and use this guide and your other Greyhawk campaign guides to determine what god a Cleric would be worshipping.

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I am a DM just now starting to get into Greyhawk through Ghosts of Saltmarsh for the ships and sea fairing vibe. Ended up scraping that whole idea and going full Greyhawk. I am using Jeremy Bioch's fanbased update. Where he added and updated Greyhawk into 5th edition before the the license was closed.

I am a Greyhawk DM since... forever, somehow. It was around 1989, 1990 (I was 15) when I first started playing and then running D&D, 2e was brand new. I was looking for a setting and the guy in our local hobby shop showed me the options I had. Forgotten Realms, Mystara/Known World (and Basic), Dragonlance. Greyhawk Adventures had recently launched/arrived (american stuff took a while to get across the Atlantic), the Gold Box was not available, but City of Greyhawk was on the shelf. Orange spines everywhere and the 2e black spines were growing in number. As I live in Germany, 1e had just launched in German (it took a while...) and the Basic Boxes in German were not completely outdated, but the New and Easy to Master and Rules Cyclopedia would be launched not far in the future... I got the Greyhawk Adventures book and the City Box for Christmas, and started reading. I had the local/regional maps of the city's area, but not much more, only a few hints about the Gods (incl. Pholtus, but not Pelor...) and no other informations, so I had to make up my own Greyhawk. When I got a Gold Box later, I noticed how different my own Greyhawk had become and my people would take a moment if I sent them to the official setting. Similar to Greg Staffords saying: "Your Oerth will be different". I do not have the new DMG yet and I cannot say how different it is from Gygaxian, 2e FtA-Greyhawk, Early WotC Greyhawk or 3e Living Greyhawk... A do not like 5e very much and I only have the Core Rules and the Essentials Box, and the new 2024 PHB. Maybe I will buy one next month, it has no real priority for me. My campaign runs on Oe (incl. Greyhawk, Blackmoor and Eldritch Wizardry) atm, and my players like this more than AD&D, even though I use the MM (I hate searching for the monsters through 4 booklets/PDFs...) Every new DM adopting Oerth will make it their own. As Gary stated, when groups start their own games, Oerth or whatever world becomes their own. My Oerth is humancentric, but has independently working Orc (and whatever) tribes with their own plans, clan structures etc. They are not just evil forces pawns or mooks for a random Big Baddy, they are intelligent enemies to reckon with. Kobolds are doglike, the Great Kingdom is a not so great place to un-live and the Greyhawk Wars took an all different path, stopping Iuz invasion between Riftcraig, the Tangles and Stoink. That were many intense sessions of Grewhawk Wars strategy gaminge back then ;) But my talented players almost botched all the adventures of Fate of Istus :D So yes, this Greyhawk is Something Completely Different and there are Rodents of Extraordinary Size... Ever tried to stop a cult of Kyuss by the usage of Burburs? Good luck :D What I want to say: There is hope. Not all young people will make Oerth a purplehaired-unicorn/orc-princess realm with barristas baking cake in their Bastion is the most challenging quest (sarcasm, I am queer myself, but overacting some of the OSR/Grognard crowd I am a part of myself of - we have to rethink ourselves sometimes). My daughter and her players (a group of up to 10 folks, 15 to 22 yo; I introduced most of them to 1e a few years ago) honor old school/classic/traditional gaming, they value the work of others. But they do not want a sweet fairy realm of Icing and Fondant, they love their realms grimdark, gritty and wild. They love levers, teleporters, portcullies, random encounters, hex crawls and practical riddles. (But no math or geometry please ;) ) And they are just as weird and random as I and my players have been in the early 90s. She just borrowed my copy of Tomb of Horrors 2 weeks ago, so there is hope... Or I hope so ;)

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Nice review! Glad we have new Greyhawk content coming out.

Its great that so many people are putting out high quality content for Greyhawk. Proves that the World of Greyhawk is the Greatest Campaign world ever written and true to the heart of D&D.

Yup. And now I have Savatage in my head. But that's quite nice looking. He really nailed that classic module look.

This video was of much help! I just got the new 5e.24 DM guide and there's a lot of info about running a greyhawk campaign, inluding a pretty cool map! Just started a new campaign (3 sessions in) so i'm probably gonna set the world in greyhawk :)

We should start a Grognard poll (everyone welcome, of course) Geoff pronunciation: JEEE' Off Joff' Jeffff'

I love this series!

Hmm...change Queen to King and I may consider this...

Starting a Greyhawk campaign in January where I will be teaching 2024 5e to a bunch of newbies to the hobby and their kids. Plan to use your campaign guide and players guide! I might pick up the Cleric book as well! Keep it cranking GG!!!!

This module name makes me want to listen to Savatage.

i still dont understand how initiative is determined and how it affects other attacks? ie who gains initiative, how is this inserted into a "regular round" and can say a fighter use a psionic ability THEN swing a sword?

Thanks Grognard! ‘24 5e committed to only four subclasses per class; Cleric and Wizard content is lacking. This is Timely.

Always happy when new Greyhawk modules are published. Make me want to play the entire Queen of the Spiders campaign again with thid extra stuff.

Is there a G4? If so, is it their module or was it done by someone else?

I’d use Castles & Crusades. Gary was running Greyhawk with it.

I was debating on picking this up, but it seems to be superfluous with the Art & Arcana collection. Thanks for showcasing it!

Mr Bloch I'm really enjoying this series as I'm rediscovering Greyhawk through your eyes. Thank you for doing this.

I miss Len Lakafka. I got to see him do a few appearances on a twitch stream and he looked like he was a handful to deal with and had a real fire about him. I'll keep the Islands as Len saw them. We miss you Len. Rest in power King

I am one of the ones that have come late to the group but I'm really enjoying this series. I hope you are able to finish it.

It's a solid book. Unlike you, I've embraced 5th edition and don't have super strong feelings about the old school rulesets (lore is another story tho) and I especially love the 2024 books and their use of older characters from the early 80s that got abandoned like Warduke and Ringlerun and the others, and was stoked to hear about Greyhawk in it, and this book works well to bring most of the gold box info that's actually useful and relevant to modern campaigns into a nice 128 page Gazetteer style book. I think stylistically it fits well with the more modern books and other Greyhawk related DM's guild titles that are out there now and can recommend it, and I'm glad you didn't try to resist the changes they made (Arn, etc) which would have just led to confusion. So, good job.

Great work man. Still loving the content and can't wait for the next.

I'm really enjoying the series bud. Thanks for taking the time to do it.

Great work! Wow, 70 subclasses. One thing, not sure I understand the distinction between abilities given by a deity and domain abilities given by said deity?

Blues Bugbears, are wearing suits and dark sunglasses. They are being chased by lots of Smokey Bears in cars. :D

How the devil are you writing these tomes so quickly? I can only assume a guy like you has created a large library of personal Greyhawk material and now find yourself in the position of being able to publish and strike while the iron is hot. Either that or your fingers are cramped and bleeding from 24/7 non-stop typing at your computer while urging your artists to hurry hurry hurry. I'm certainly not complaining about this bonanza, and please don't feel the need to reply if I'm delving into trade secret country (or slowing down your typing).

The way I look at the relm of Grayhawk is that’s the world of classical medieval fantasy. The cool whimsical and gritty fantasy that I like to imagine the 80’s and 90’s use to feel. Where you can play Xanax, the great wizard who enslaves and uses the power of a great powerful balor Then you have the more mainstream world like Faerun and the forgotten realms for the modern audience who want to play a gender pan Minotaur that wants to do quirky things like “I wanna buy a goat farm” and bullshits to the Dm the goat market and becomes rich cause of some Reddit post they saw :/

Is this written for the 2024 revision of the 5e rules?

I think Mordenkainen would be flattered by the tribute.

Congratulations, Joe! This is a masterpiece!! 🎉🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾🥂

I hate 5e and the 2024 version but I'd be lying if I said some of this didn't make me at least curious about running it in Greyhawk, although the 2024 DMG kinda ruined it by race and gender swapping a bunch of rulers.

Fantastic ! Definetly gonna grab this. I do have a question, whats the actual regarding using Tsr or Wizard of the coast art ? Can we can actually use them for publication on Dm's Guild ? I would hope it is. Cheers !

Great news Grognard, you have done the impossible. Hopefully this will help your channel grow as it should.

Amazing content as always from one of the esteemed World of Greyhawk supporters!

Well done, gods done right, not listing their stat blocks as potential monsters but focusing on their religious orders and clergy!

Looks great. As good as, if not better than, anything WotC is putting out. Top notch presentation.

Cool, 3 for 3. Actually read the Greyhawk setting in the 2024 DMG, going to make some changes (so that the rulers mesh with the OG setting) and gradually introduce the new races as things grow chaotic, beginning with a tribe of seafaring Goliaths who are attacked by pirates and then later betrayed and massacred.

Great content as always!

In today's video: local man humbles multi-million dollar corporation at their own game.

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This looks like a wonderful product, I just wish that the DMS Guild search function actually worked. I can type in exactly the title of your book and it doesn't come up...

2:25 - _"... you gotta keep up with the rules... "_ No, _the rules_ are that dragonborn are unique to the Forgotten Realms. They were the dominant species on their own planet, that merged with Toril during the Spellplague, which was an event designed _exclusively_ for that purpose. It was a unique event, on a unique game world. There is absolutely _no reason_ that dragonborn should exist in any other campaign setting. Your book was in my shopping cart, until you uttered those words. I understand you're trying to sell books here, but you're helping Wizards make Greyhawk into just another generic campaign world. I'll stick with my old box sets, thank you very much. ... And go back to AD&D.

You've done it, mate. A 5e product I will buy, for the love of Oerth!

Good idea to show the content of the pdf! Your version of Greyhawk is the one I know I want for my group. I had no interest in 5.5e, but seeing the old-school Greyhawk brought back and slightly modernized, it shed a new light that I had extinguish! I'm sharing all your links with my old time DM who started with Greyhawk 1e. (Last comment regarding the video quality: your intro video has a higher resolution (better audio & visual) compared to the 'what's in the book segment. Like I suggested, it could be the setting when your export your new video.)