Right, so as I am running Age of Worms again, and this group isn't retardedly powerful like the last one that I played in, I find myself in need of a bit of information.
Specifically, the levels of various service providers in the Free City, for things like healing and spellcasting. The most powerful cleric at Diamond Lake was able to handle a Restoration, but for anything above that, its going to take some travel, and I would like to stay "within" the Greyhawk lore as much as possible (events from the previous Shackled City game nonwithstanding).
So who's who in Greyhawk? Where can I go to find this information?
So who's who in Greyhawk? Where can I go to find this information?
This very useful resource should help. It lists the NPCs of Greyhawk City and the Domain of Greyhawk.
http://www.greyhawkonline.com/duicarthan/ghnpcz/duicarthex2.pdf.
A labeled map of Greyhawk can be found at: http://www.greyhawkonline.com/duicarthan/ghnpcz/duicarthex2.pdf.
Thanks go to Duicarthan and Maldin respectively.
Cheers.
there is a 1st edition boxed set just for greyhawk. of course, its prolly a little late notice to try to find it (i have it on my shelf back in albuquerque) you may be able to get a pdf on it at rpgnow or drive through rpg. (it may even be here actually).
i would say that there are examples of evey class at every level. its a huge city. every god has a temple there, there are some good quick rules in the dungeon masters guide on figuring out how many of each level of the core classes.
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So who's who in Greyhawk? Where can I go to find this information?
Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins
Available here on Paizo for $5, it's almost difficult to justify not downloading it. Librarians, tutors, guildmasters, priests...it's got most of the bases covered.
A good companion to this supplement is this site, which utilizes a java applet to make referencing the map locations a bit simpler.
Dragon #336 & Dragon #337, of course, have additional city backdrop information on locations in which characters may shop, gamble, or otherwise while away their free time between missions. You'll probably have to shuffle locations around a bit to incorporate both the "Wormfood" articles and "The Adventure Begins," but together they can help you with the otherwise rather daunting task of more fully fleshing out a large and populous city.
So who's who in Greyhawk? Where can I go to find this information?Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins
Available here on Paizo for $5, it's almost difficult to justify not downloading it. Librarians, tutors, guildmasters, priests...it's got most of the bases covered.
Not available any more, now that WotC has pulled all of their .pdfs from stores...
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Not available any more, now that WotC has pulled all of their .pdfs from stores...
That severely, severely sucks. Sheesh...I just downloaded a pdf a few days ago...would've gotten more if I'd have known. Well, dang. Scratch the above advice, I guess. Try ebaying for the physical modules/magazines? *shrug* Beyond that, you got me.
According to the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, the city's population in CY 591 was 69,500. You can project from there using the tables in the DMG.
"Wormfood" in Dragon 337 (p. 80) has a list of the ranking clerics of each major deity. The high priest of Boccob is 18th level, and the high priestess of Pelor is 15th level, so you can get just about any spell you want cast. Even a true res.
As for mages, a number of powerful ones frequent Greyhawk, since the Circle of Eight meets there. Jallarzi Sallavarian and Otto both maintain residences there, and are both 15th level Clerics. I'm not sure where Bigby lives, buy he's 19th level, and Mordenkainen, who has his personal stronghold high in the Yatils but frequently visits the mages' guild and the university of magical arts, is epic (28th level, according to Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk). And of course there's Tenser--whom the PCs will meet later. He doesn't live in the city, but is a fairly short pilgrimage--maybe three or four days' hard ride away.
There's also a bardic college in Greyhawk. Druids are a bit harder to find in the city, but the Gnarley Forest has some pretty high-level ones.
So, it's safe to say, if you want to give your players access to any particular spell, it's not a stretch for it to be available in Greyhawk either as a scroll or as "spellcaster services."
So who's who in Greyhawk? Where can I go to find this information?
Hmmm... I would have never thunk it, but because of WotC's recent PDF decision, its looking like my website is going to become one of the few sources. I believe Skullking meant his second link to be the City of Greyhawk section of my website, but Courtney! did have it. I guess this gives me even more reason to get back to adding more material.
There you will find the map I created of the City of Greyhawk that would become the official city map (first published in the Living Greyhawk Journal, and later reproduced by tracing -without credit- for the Expedition to Greyhawk Ruins product), as well as the never-published undercity map. You will also find the most complete (and annotated!) list of City of Greyhawk NPCs ever put together. From those pages you'll find links to more detailed pages on several locations in the city, including Maldin's shop described in the Wormfood article Courtney! mentioned in Dragon 337.
In case people are interested, my monicker does not come from that article. Rather, the NPC and the location (first described in the Living Greyhawk Journal #2 by Erik Mona and myself) is based on my primary PC from my 29 year-long campaign. Stop by and visit me! ;)
If you have any questions regarding anything on my website, the original LGJ articles Erik and I wrote, or anything else regarding the City of Greyhawk, please feel free to ask.
Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Loads of edition-independent Greyhawk goodness... maps, mysteries, magic, mechanics, and more!
Please, please, please tell us you back up that information regularly, just in case the Sorcerors by the Shore try to kill that site.
It would be far too much heartache to have to reconstruct it from scratch.
I don't think we have any reason to worry. All of the material on my site is original material... I've not even posted the material that Erik and I wrote for WotC for the Living Greyhawk Journal articles, or the Irongate material Gary Holian and I wrote for Dragon magazine. While my Greyhawk site certainly uses WotC IP in the form of Greyhawk setting nouns and general information, I don't think they will ever clamp down on not-for-profit fan-generated web material. Their lawyers have far bigger fish to fry... such as pay-per-use 4E software sites and large-scale Wizards' PDF file-sharing.
However, yes... I maintain a complete version of my website locally, and is in fact how I build it before uploading. :)
Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Hey Maldin, I've been using your site as a reference for my own campaign for a couple of years now and I just wanted to thank you for being responsible for its awesomeness! My players have actually been to your character's shop a time or 2, ever since it was mentioned in whichever Dungeon or Dragon Age of Worms issue that was. So cool to be able to show my players where that shop or, say, Barge End (featured in Dungeon's Mad God's Key, which I ran before starting my players along the AoW path) is, and for them to see the name of the area in question pop up onto the screen to confirm I'm not just making this stuff up...
I had a "That is SO cool!" moment when I found that every single building of the Midnight's Muddle area as presented in Dungeon (Or was it the accompanying Wormfood article in Dragon? Whatever. There was a neighbourhood mini-map at any rate.) was faithfully represented just as they appear on your site's map.
Would you be miffed if I made a copy specifically for my group's use, which would be kept offline, then added a few more pop-up location names for areas specific to my own campaign? Stuff like the Crooked House Inn from Midnight's Muddle, the party rogue's nagging aunt's house, Sodden Hold (another AoW area), the Cold Forge Smithy (also from AoW), Theldrat's Locksmithy & the Couatl's Quill Tavern (from Mad God's Key, though the latter is a "homebrewed" locale so to speak) and so forth... We've been going to your site periodically when the players have questions about what parts of town things are happening in, but a customized & updatable copy on our laptop's hard drive would be really cool and save us waiting on download times while sitting around the table trying to play...
I'll admit to already having made a copy and done a bit of dabbling to figure out how to add new pop-up area names, but so far I haven't shown the results to anyone. Just say the word and I promise it'll go straight into my laptop's recycle bin. Or alternatively, say, "Go for it" and my players & I will all thank you and be forever grateful for letting an impressive campaign resource become even better customized for our group!
Either way, thanks again for all the time & effort you've obviously put into your site.
Kang
Hey Kang... Many thanks! I'm glad that you've found my material (both published and website) useful to your campaign.
Yes, Erik was always very good about staying accurate to my original map, including all of the AoW (both the AP and Wormfood stuff) and EtGR.
I have no problem at all with you having a copy of the java'd map page on your local drive, and modifying it for your own purposes. In fact, I have instructions at the bottom of my main CoG webpage on how to set up a functioning java'd webpage on your own computer so DMs can access it while offline. As long as you don't repost it on the web. One of these days I need to add in the AoW locations to my webpage. Just haven't had the time, unfortunately. I have a ton of other CoG (and other) stuff I've been wanting to get up onto the site for quite a while. Damn RealLife! Maybe even the 3E conversion of Maldin himself! ;)
Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com