In the Age of Worms Overload, Erik says that the City of Greyhawk Boxed Set and Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins would be good for more information on Greyhawk, and that they could be pruchased as PDFs.
I found Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins on RPGnow.com, but I can't find a PDF of the City of Greyhawk Boxed Set. Does anyone have link to where a PDF is available?
And on the topic of Other Supplements, what would one suggest would be good to have for use in the adventure path? There are a lot of PDFs available on RPGnow.com, including Return of the Eight, which feature's Tenser's Citadel.
In the Age of Worms Overload, Erik says that the City of Greyhawk Boxed Set and Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins would be good for more information on Greyhawk, and that they could be pruchased as PDFs.
I found Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins on RPGnow.com, but I can't find a PDF of the City of Greyhawk Boxed Set. Does anyone have link to where a PDF is available?
And on the topic of Other Supplements, what would one suggest would be good to have for use in the adventure path? There are a lot of PDFs available on RPGnow.com, including Return of the Eight, which feature's Tenser's Citadel.
Hey Jake, thanks for the heads up on RPGnow, I just downloaded G:TAB a few minutes ago. Great source material! No wonder Erik gave it the props in Overload (and if you look hard enough, you'll see his name somewhere in the book!).
I couldn't find a PDF for City of Greyhawk but I purchased a copy of the boxed set (the last one unfortunately on the site) on a game retailer web site.Thanks man!
I wonder if the PDF From the Ashes sheds any further light on the Cairn Hills? It received a lousy, yet brief review on RPGnow.com.
I own the From the Ashes Boxed Set (from when it was originally released)... let me look through it and I'll get back to you on what you'll get.
The From the Ashes Boxed Set expands on information presented in The City of Greyhawk Boxed Set. It is presented as information in CY 585, three years after the information presented in The City of Greyhawk Boxed Set, and ten years before the beginning of the Age of Worms Adventure Path.
There are two books in the boxed set, the Atlas of the Flanaess, and the Campaign Book. The Campaign Book holds the information you'd most likely be interested in. The first section, The Free City presents the changes in the City of Greyhawk in the three years described above.
The second section, Atlas of Greyhawk Lands, is the majority of the book: pages 13-59 of the 96-page book. Pages 17-19 describe the Plain of Greyhawk and the Mistmarsh (The City of Greyhawk Boxed Set gives better information on this area), but much more detail is given for the Cairn Hills... 12 pages, actually.
The Cairn Hills section is sub-divided into five sections: Introduction, Races and Groupings, The Militia, Locations, and Tales and Whispers. This section will be of most use to the campaign, however there is very little information on Diamond Lake, which is already presented in the Backdrop: Diamond Lake.
I think it is interesting to read about how the area was ten years prior to the start of the adventure path. This is when Greyhawk got possession of the Cairn Hills, when the lizardmen in the Mistmarh began their attacks, spurring the creation of Blackwall Keep, and other little tidbits.
I didn't get to use this boxed set much when I bought it (I was in two separate campaigns at the time, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Against the Giants), so I'm glad that I'm now able to read through it and use it as background knowledge for this campaign.
For a $5.00 download, you'll probably enjoy it. Since it's set ten years before the AoWAP, it is great background information, but not critical to the adventure path. I enjoy giving out this type of information to my players, to give them a better understanding of what's gone on before them.
Hope this helps.
Of course, Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins is set in CY 591, so that information is the most "current" for the beginning of the AoWAP. But the information on Diamond Lake is small, and taken from the two boxed sets City of Greywawk and From the Ashes.
So, I guess that makes the From the Ashes PDF worth buying.
Of course, Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins is set in CY 591, so that information is the most "current" for the beginning of the AoWAP. But the information on Diamond Lake is small, and taken from the two boxed sets City of Greywawk and From the Ashes.
So, I guess that makes the From the Ashes PDF worth buying.
Thanks again... Depending on what Stefan says, I may end up getting The Star Cairns, in case the PCs decide to deviate from the adventure path.. Or I may just get it anyway, Doomgrinder sounds really interesting. I hope the PCs don't run amok, but you never know!
I have a CC2 (Campaign Cartographer) drawing of the campaign map from "From the Ashes" about 90% or so complete. If you're interested in a copy of the CC2 file, send an email to arackthabar (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Rob
I have a CC2 (Campaign Cartographer) drawing of the campaign map from "From the Ashes" about 90% or so complete. If you're interested in a copy of the CC2 file, send an email to arackthabar (at) yahoo (dot) com.
Rob
Thanks Rob.