My group has just ventured into Greyhawk and I have a few questions:
Where would a temple/shrine to Wee Jas be in the Free City? I have a dwarf duskblade (loong story) in the party who is a worshiper of the Ruby Enchantress and would like to pay a tithe. Doesn't seem like Wee Jas is generally to well supported in the area as she is primarily a Suloise goddess. I'm thinking a small shrine over by the graveyard, tended by a Suel man who will give the dwarf a hard time.
Also for the dwarven duskblade: Where would a brothel catering to those who have specific desires for elven women be located? (Even longer story). I'm figuring he's not going to be welcome at the Star of Celene (and anyways he's not really interested in talking ;) I don't even think your average elf would consort with a dwarf. Maybe the best he can hope for is a dopple? >:)
More questions may be forthcoming. Thank you in advance.
Sigh! Those who play dwarves seem to have the most annoying perversions sometimes. If it were my campaign, I'd use such a weakness to advance the plot, in precisely the way you suggest. Perhaps Telakin's enterprises include a secret, but discoverable brothel for luring the unwary. Or better yet, the doppelgangers just make it their business to find out PCs' perversions and use them to their advantage.
As for the temple of Wee Jas, if it's not in Greyhawk: the Adventure Begins PDF, you might as well make one up. An alternative site would be in or near the University of Magical Arts or the Wizard's Guild, although Boccob is no doubt the primary deity favored there.
Not that I count as a sage of Greyhawk.
There is no temple for Wee Jas given in the CoG box, so there will probably be a small shrine at most - either with the other temples in the Garden Quarter, or along a cemetery.
For your other question: well... try the river quarter, this is the place to get almost everything for a price...
Of course, you might just use the shrine in Diamond Lake (see Age of Worms AP from Dungeon)
Stefan
I'm stuck at work and forgot to research a Greyhawk tidbit myself. I have Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins at home. Does anyone know a reference for a local druid living in the city? We have a character who just died and I'd like to give them the option of Reincarnation, but don't have time to craft an NPC from scratch right now.
Any help with urban Greyhawk druids?
Thanks!
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Am I still clinging to old Greyhawk Wars-era facts that there are very few elves in the City of Greyhawk? As in fewer than 100, more than 10? I still have Celene's xenophobia ingrained in my mind and what few elves there are in the City are associated with Prince Melf's Knights of Luna. Potentially this makes finding an elven craftsperson of any type difficult at best.
I had placed a small temple to Wee Jas in a home near the Roc and Oliphant (C17?...don't remember off hand) in Clerk's Ward. Wee Jas' darker aspects would appeal to all those students/apprentice wizards that cannot get enough of the great bard Roberto Smitz's dark "college" music. It is run out of a wizard's home who is also a minor priest.
I don't have the CoG stuff with me, but Denis Tetreault's excellent Maldin's Greyhawk site may have your Druid answer handy. Especially one of the 401 NPCs he lists for the Free City.
As DM I had to tackle this nifty little problem as a backgrounder for one of my PCs, who is a priest of Wee Jas for our Age of Worms game.
If you wish, send me your email address (I'm at ttaylor10il@yahoo.com), and I'll email a pdf of the document I made.
In the interest of brevity, here's what I came up with:
a) Wee Jas maintains a chapel at the Common Crypt of Greyhawk, even though the church no longer has authority there. The Guild of Embalmers and Gravediggers is the only one authorized to maintain the graveyard. Even so, Wee Jas faithful still keep a weather eye out for graverobbers.
b) Until recently, there was a Wee Jas academy/seminary/boarding house in a manor in the Foreign Quarter adjacent to the Nyrondese Traders' House. This served the church as a headquarters for many years, and a place to train priests, but is now a retirement home for priests.
c) "Greyhawk The Adventure Begins" details the financial difficulties of the University of the Flanaess. I had the church of Wee Jas step forward and bail out chanellor Soria Sellincross, and now manages the university's school of religion in the Clerkburg. The arrangement gives Wee Jas considerably more standing than their days as caretakers at the Old City Crypt.
None of this is canon, but it works for our game.
Any help with urban Greyhawk druids?
Thanks!
None by name ... make contact with the Greyhawk Militia, they might have a druid attatched to one of the Gnarley Forest patrols (then again, they might not).
Best bet is to make discrete contact with any of the superintendents or stewards of any of the nobles manors in the Garden Quarter or those outside the city. They might have druids working for them as gardners, or at least, have gardners who know of some druids in the vicinity.
On the other hand, you might take your chances at the Green Dragon Inn or Tanquin's in the Muddle. There's always a chance that a druid might be passing through and stop for a refreshment ...
As a last-ditch thing, there might be an urban druid doing contract investigative work for the City Watch. I hesistate to use the word "inquisitive" (very Eberronish sounding, isn't it?), but these days, who knows what types of adventurers you might run into on the Free City's streets.
Thanks Troy.
I was thinking about some druid up there in the Garden Quarter. Eligos might be a good pointer in that direction. But a military druid from the Gnarley Forest makes good sense and seems like a fun way to tie in the larger world. They might even have a scroll of Reincarnation on them for emergency use during patrol perhaps.
I was considering having the head of the church of Pelor Matriarch Sarana (a PC is a Peloran Cleric who grew up in the City) be one of the doppel replacements. Therefore the church is in disarray and can't spare the time to perform more than a perfunctory Raise Dead. This might be why the Pelorans direct the party to the (as yet) nameless druid as an alternative.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
Cheers.
Eltanin--you could also use the Lonesome Bride, a dryad 12th level druid briefly detailed in Wormfood in Dragon #337 (pp. 79-80). She lives in the grounds of a ruined mansion in the Garden Quarter.
Eltanin--you could also use the Lonesome Bride, a dryad 12th level druid briefly detailed in Wormfood in Dragon #337 (pp. 79-80). She lives in the grounds of a ruined mansion in the Garden Quarter.
Is that the Gadees dryad attached to the old oak adjacent to the Botanical Gardens?
If so, beware. If the petitioner is young and handsome, she'll require a courtship of some length before fulfilling his wishes. (In that event he'll -- quite literally -- become a tree-hugger).
I was wondering when Iquander would emerge from the library basement and lend his inestimatable and deeply needed wisdom to this discussion ...
Where would a temple/shrine to Wee Jas be in the Free City?
I'd choose the Garden Quarter.
Where would a brothel catering to those who have specific desires for elven women be located? (Even longer story). I'm figuring he's not going to be welcome at the Star of Celene
The Star of Celene is a restaurant, not a brothel. I seriously doubt that there would be a brothel that had only elven prostitutes. However, I'm sure that every upscale brothel would have at least one on hand to cater to such needs. They'd probably have other non-human races as well. The best-known house of ill-repute in Greyhawk is probably the Silver Garter, in the River Quarter (west-central), run by a massive woman known as Rhina "the Ogress," who is also on the Public Council of Greyhawk (which is different from the city's true rulers, the Directing Oligarchy).
In the fiction "At Moonset, Blackcat Comes", Gord and Chert visit a gaming establishment known as The Ship and Crowns which apparently had two pleasure salons on the upper levels (referred to as the Masters' Cabin and The Leisure of Lords respectively). To the best of my knowledge, none of these places have ever been detailed or even mentioned in any Greyhawk product before or since (the fiction appeared in Dragon #100 in August '85) outside of that story. But there it is--do you need an elven brothel? Then just put one in; Greyhawk's a big city with room for just about anything.
Quite honestly, I think the dwarf with a thing for elves should end up being lonely. I mean, imagine it, he hunts all over the city, following all sorts of tantalizing leads ... only to come up empty each time.
It could become a sort of neverending quest, so long as the players remain in Greyhawk, that is. "OK guys, this time it's for real. I've got a lead on this elvish lass who'll do it for anybody, even an ogre. And I'm not half as ugly as an ogre, am I?"
Of course, something intervenes or not works out. You could even find a elvish woman willing to partiicipate, only to have an adventure barge in and spoil things. AFter the encounter, the dwarf returns, only to find out the elf has vanished. Oh noooooo.........