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I like the idea of an illusionist being involved in this scenario, either as a PC or an NPC hireling; I could see an illusionist being involved as a kind of consultant to determine the reality (or lack thereof) of the Xagyg sightings.

Now this adventure hook idea is very very interesting. The player characters would definitely need to be of very high level.

That's a neat hook, thank you.

This material will come in handy! I'm planning to start DMing a Greyhawk campaign when I finish up my Forgotten Realms mini-campaign.

That's a pretty good adventure hook!

Yet another excellent video! And, referring to the parts that run off the edge of the map, or are mentioned as being off map, in B2, the Keep on the Borderlands, there is a tunnel that is blocked, but it mentions that the DM can allow it to be explored and that it would lead to "the Caves of Chaos"! (duh duh de duh! "insert ominous music"). I think Gygax and many of the early "powers" of TSR liked to leave it up to the DMs to expand and add flavor to their modules. And again, nice shirt. 🙂 We need one that says SSFP (Stay Safe From Pinkertons!).

An interesting one! Just the thought of a major Demon Lord openly walking around the city is bad enough!!

Thanks for your tips. Cheers from Brazil! 🤘

We converted Zagyg to lawful good this year.

Wow! Very Greyhawkish! Still... One does not simply walk into Castle Greyhawk and find Zagyg. This might be more of a dungeon crawl campaign as opposed to an adventure hook.

Heck yeah

Was wondering what to buy myself as birthday present…I have figured out with this video! Thanks!

The pleistocene inclusion in Greyhawk existed for two reasons as far as I could tell at the time... 1st and foremost was just to include monster stat blocks they had worked up but had no setting for them and didn't want to just put unused monsters into the upcoming MM. 2nd, it was the earliest foray into connecting settings in what we now recognize as a 'multiverse', but they eventually shifted to a planar system. If you keep digging through Greyhawk you will find the births of Dark Sun, Al Quaddim, and other settings.

I like it better to say these Pleistocene animals migrated there from the far west in the centuries *after* the Twin Cataclysms -- maybe a couple hundred years after -- and found a small niche to inhabit (free from Baklunish & Suel hunters from ages past).

You were practically in my back yard! Do you plan to be there next year?

Really late on this but what other faiths are banned in Keoland? I'm running Ghosts of Saltmarsh and hoping to immerse my players into Greyhawk

Curly Greenleaf

Maybe the primitives are a remnant of an even earlier slave race breeding program run by the Suel Imperium

Just when I needed a new video. Thank you for the knowledge

I wonder what would happen if some adventurer didn't blame Ralishaz for his bad luck?

Talk about a me-friendly video. D&D, lost worlds, the Valley of Gwangi. That's good stuff. I always found it interesting as a kid when I would see dinosaurs and dinosaur-esc creatures in the monster manuals. So much potential in that.

The Greyhawk hardcover on pages 98-99 in the geography section describes Tovag Baragu in the Dry Steppes, an odd artifact mile-wide circle of five concentric rings of white standing stones that sometimes (when the moons and planets are correct) distort vision and allow the viewer to see strange places and times, past and future, including "a verdant plain crowded with the peculiar mammalian life which may be found on occasion near the Sulhauts." It is said in DM section that "the most frequent full connection is to a Pleistocene setting."

I'm running a campaign in that region and my players rolled the cavemen encounters more than once, and it's prompted very similar thoughts with me. I put a "valley of the mammoths" in the mountains with Pleistocene mammals, giant animals, and yes, dinosaurs.

I'm sure it's just for variety that they threw these in. If it was an intended thing, there'd be other mentions of it. However, it's cool you can go off a couple of entries in the random encounter tables and generate whole adventures. I noticed some articles in the early Dragon mags took two lines from the DM Guide and wrote three pages expanding on that bit of text. Fun and cool.

Cool find. I wouldn't be too surprised if Gary had a permanent portal through time and/or space there, slowly funneling out creatures, like Martian White Apes from greyhawk dungeon

This is a great suggestion. I love the whole "Professor Challenger" theme. This is why "The Isle of Dread" is my favorite adventure module to this day, even though (sigh) I've never actually got to play it OR run it.

The Valley of Gwangi G 1969 ‧ Western/Fantasy ‧ 1h 36m

I could imagine they come from a gate or rift, caused by the Twin Cataclysms, that connects to another world, or Oerth's own past even.

Now I want to make an expedition of adventurers and go to the anomaly!

I loved the Valley of the Gwangi when I was a kid, might have another watch again.

I like the music. 🎶 Don't go changing it 😊

There's always an option to consider these as magical experiments gone wrong. I surmise the Baklunish and Suel mages surely would have known about these "hidden valleys" on their borders (unless there was a tacit agreement between them that these mountains were to be claimed by neither peoples -- sort of the way we view claims on Antarctica or the Moon). That said, if these existed before the fall of these empires, it's hard to imagine the powers that were the Baklunish and the Suel not being aware of these unless, as someone suggests elsewhere in the comments some gate to an earth-like world in its "Pleistocene Age" appeared and these creatures came through. Personally, I prefer the idea that an unintended side-effect of the Invoked Devastation was a displacement of segments of these mountains with those from a Pleistocene Age world -- literally entire peaks and valleys swapped out. This explains both their presence, as well as why they were not known to the Bakluni or Suel before.

As I recall, back when the Great Kingdom map was being based more closely on North America, there was an intention to put Pleistocene and other Lost World type encounters in the Pacific Northwest.

Land of the Lost

Oerth, to my knowledge, never had an Ice Age or Pleistocene period, so it would have to be a gate or teleporter to the Ice Ages of Earth. Oerth's distant past is completely different from ours.

Someone needs to create a stat block for a Pinkerton and add it to the random encounter tables.

The Zanti Misfits, loved it loved it loved it from the original Outer Limits

This makes me think of like a folk horror Bone Tomahawk-type situation.

Speaking of land that time forget... I saw a meme recently showing the Egyptians using dinosaurs to help build the pyramids, lifting and hauling the giant stone blocks, captioned "This should shut up those idiots who thought it was aliens!"

A campaign where PCs start off as cavemen/cavewomen, and after 2-3 sessions they come into the civilized lands, learn to speak a few words in Common, and then each one must choose which class they'll be. "Groh be Magicky Man!" "Koum be Sneaky Man!"

Watching your video now. But I sure wish you would have left up that one from the other day with your comments about wizards of the coast. You were spot on

I assumed they came through Tovag Baragu. Though I don't think that appeared until the Greyhawk Adventures hardback.

I guess I didn't pay close enough attention to those charts. Back in the early 90's, shortly after Jurassic Park came out, my group really wanted to fight some raptors. As they were currently in G2, it didn't really lend itself well to the setting, but when they used the iron chain teleporter to get to G3, they messed up. This landed them in the middle of the Chult accessory I had recently purchase, renamed to something else to not bring Realms into the setting. They eventually made contact with an ancient and intelligent race of lizard men (Sleestacks for all intents and purposes) who opened a gateway in one of their sacred pylons and got the party back on track.

The TV series Land of the Lost was kind of a big deal when D&D was coming together. I certainly didn't want to miss an episode. Greyhawk also has the Fading Lands, which can be useful for explaining weird shadows(-fell) of the past.

You might want to look up Nahanni Park/Valley of Headless Men in Canada. Some interesting & useful folklore.

Very interesting and thought provoking video

Curious, are you filming on a flip-phone? Or is UA-cam uploading your videos at super low-res?