![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien was as strong an influence on my gaming as Moorcock and Leiber and Farmer when I was younger, though I tended to leverage the wider tapestry of the Silmarillion moreso than The Hobbit or LOTR-the clear alignment to Greyhawk, with an active evil god as your foe-I'm sure didn't hurt :D In fact my first "homebrew" setting was a homebrew map that mashed-up placenames from Greyhawk and Beleriand. I've also leveraged large swaths of ICE's MERP books in my campaigns in the past, in particular Ardor and Angmar. Several factions co-exist in both settings (like the Hierarchs, Circle of Eight, Iuz, various demon princes, etc.), and I've tended to alternate which setting PCs start in, in order to then spring the 2nd world and the revelations of the inter-planar dynamics on them.įor some Greyhawk campaigns, I've also moved quite a distance away from the published versions: I've run an ice age Greyhawk, as well as a version of Greyhawk set in 175 CY, about 400 years before the 576 CY "start date" for AD&D Greyhawk and, I've excised large swaths of Greyhawk canon from my campaigns (rewriting the 2e history of the Great Kingdom without animuses, for example). Unsurprisingly, I DM in Greyhawk, but I'm also an addicted settings designer, so my Greyhawk is closely-tied to a parallel Prime, which is my homebrew Mendenein setting. ![]()
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