Welcome to Greyhawk

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Are you new to the World of Greyhawk? Here's a very high-level overview to get you started.
0:00 What's today's video about?
0:30 A little history and the theme of Balance
4:05 Geography and major nations
7:18 Quick look at deities
8:45 Legendary characters
10:04 Adventures
11:10 Conclusion and thanks
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@GreyhawkGrognard Ай бұрын

My playlist for folks new to Greyhawk is here: kzbin.info/aero/PLHV7B21NcVNnn4EypyDikVItCiGlbGRK6 More videos will be added as the series goes on, so do check back often!

@BW022 Ай бұрын

IMO the best part of Greyhawk is that it's a great smorgasbord campaign. You can ignore 90%+ of it, find a starting location with a real-world theme to it (Mongol-tribesmen, Viking raiders, middle-eastern Caliphate, ocean/pirate islands, Aztec jungle, Swedish mercenaries, Italian merchant guilds, collapsed empire, etc.), terrains (deep elven forest, dwarven mountain kingdoms, reptile swamp, desert, etc.) and there is a corresponding Greyhawk area you can set it in. Players and DMs can start small in one of these areas -- read only the background on a single country and a few geographical areas and races -- and you're good to go. This makes it easy to start as you can run a full campaign in 5-10 hexes (100 or so miles) without affection/knowing about the rest of the world. Likewise, it means even after 40 years of playing... you still have different types/styles of campaigns you can play in and they are still new.

@hamishshaw4907 Ай бұрын

I love the sense of history involved in Greyhawk. Plus you can actually meet the players from the original campaign still. It still has enough open, sandbox setup that a DM can make it his own.

@SpiritWolf1966 Ай бұрын

I enjoy all of Greyhawk Grognard videos

@bleekskaduwee6762 Ай бұрын

So do I, he does the best Greyhawk on KZbin

@jeffreyraia Ай бұрын

Like yourself I started playing in the World of Greyhawk when it released back in 1980. We need to keep it alive. Thanks for all that you do.

@RonW4684 Ай бұрын

Same here, except 1983 box set. I started AD&D in 1980

@Renkaru Ай бұрын

Even when I'm running my own world, I use modules and cities as my players explore the map. Its my favorite setting.

@dantherpghero2885 Ай бұрын

I Love ALL Greyhawk Grognard videos!

@williammeek7218 Ай бұрын

That map is a masterpiece Grognard. Love the new video. I lost my Darlene map. Can’t get enough of this stuff. Once I freaking left two huge maps I had of towns I created. They were about the same size. Taped together sheets with 10 ft. squares.

@joeyj6808 Ай бұрын

Hands down the best campaign setting ever printed. I have many fond memories of leading hundreds of different players over those maps since the 1980s. I'm glad it's being kept alive, thanks for folks like you. Thanks!

@garryame4008 Ай бұрын

I can't understate how helpful the geography section in this video is in helping me understand the Flanaess

@leemarohn7496 Ай бұрын

Greyhawk is HOME. My current Castles & Crusades campaign is set in the same version I played in (AD&D back then), just 30-40 years later. My players will likely run into our old PCs-turned NPCs sometime. This is a great intro video!

@Gashren Ай бұрын

5:13 Iuz is one of major protagonists? I think you meant antagonists? I mean, sure, there are moments Iuz fights evil (in Vecna Lives! and Die, Vecna Die!, for example), but he's very much a chaotic antagonist even while doing that.

@raymondhemphill146 Ай бұрын

LET’S KEEP GREYHAWK ALIVE!

@leejackson623 Ай бұрын

I enjoy all of Greyhawk Grognard’s videos. They help me run a Greyhawk campaign with the ShadowDark ruleset 😀👍🏼

@Amesang Ай бұрын

One thing I like about "Greyhawk" over other settings is that it doesn't feel quite as "settled," despite many of the nations being centuries old; as a result I feel like there's always something new to discover - kind of like post-Roman Europe as it fragmented into a number of kingdoms, while also taking note of the various ancient sites of precursor civilizations. (It also helps that my favorite character, Quintessa - originally created in the game _SoulCalibur III_ - fits so perfectly as the stereotypical pureblooded, noble-born Suloise sorceress, inspiring me to both read more about the setting _and_ to craft unique spells baring her name.)

@Geraint3000 Ай бұрын

Great introduction to Greyhawk.

@22steve5150 Ай бұрын

Low magic settings are always more fun and less complicated.

@Andre99328 Ай бұрын

I play Greyhawk for 35 years on and off, but I enjoyed the intro anyway. 😊

@mattinthehat3 Ай бұрын

Excellent video as always. These introductions to the campaign setting videos are down right helpful for any game master wishing to start a Greyhawk campaign. Thank you.

@AtomicSnackBar Ай бұрын

This was quite good, extremely eloquent, and very welcome. Though really, you had me at kitchen sink. Whether it be gaming or movies, kitchen sink stuff is most often my favorite. As to the pronunciation of "drow," I was always one for the version rhyming with "show." But I must say, in recent years, I've become a drow rhyming with "sow" guy.

@ericfoerter2075 Ай бұрын

great video, my favorite campaign setting! I love all videos from Greyhawk Grognard.

@OffGridGamer2077 Ай бұрын

Is the Greyhawk Folio a must if I'm buying the World of Greyhawk Box set (1st edition)?. Can a DM new to Greyhawk get by on the Greyhawk Adventures hardcover?

@GreyhawkGrognard Ай бұрын

Nope. Everything in the Folio is also in the Gold Box, almost entirely verbatim.

@OffGridGamer2077 Ай бұрын

@@GreyhawkGrognard Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated.

@RonW4684 Ай бұрын

Gold Box has MORE, by probably 30% (weather charts, gods, wandering monster regional tables, etc. Folio is a better start at only 30-odd pages.

@GreyhawkGrognard Ай бұрын

@@RonW4684 I still recommend the Gold Box, if only for the information on gods. Most people today want to see that.

@Steve-qu3jk Ай бұрын

I found a web page that listed this out but seem to have lost it. A great video idea would be to point out on the map where some of the "classic" modules took place -- Keep on the Borderlands, Against the Giants, the Slave Lords Series, the Saltmarsh series, etc.

@SpaghettiWst Ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you for sharing! I'll use it to introduce players to the setting

@DragonsDiceandDads-qr7rz Ай бұрын

Thanks for the content!

@Dave_L Ай бұрын

I've been thinking of running an RC Greyhawk campaign for a while now. I know its more famous as a setting for AD&D, but could you do a video about the merits of running Classic D&D games in Greyhawk? The RC has beholders, assassins and monks and the (Wrath of the) Immortals box set demons and such… it seems like you'd have everything you'd need to get the right Greyhawk feel.

@RonW4684 Ай бұрын

I've played in Greyhawk using AD&D 1e, Castles & Crusades, and BX. It can be used with any old school system. It ends up looking a lot different with 5e

@oscarsalgadocom Ай бұрын

Excellent video!!!❤

@xgnardprime Ай бұрын

I wonder to what degree you designed your own rest of planet Oerth? or what you found of what's finished of what Gary designed?

@GreyhawkGrognard Ай бұрын

I've got a "Beyond the Flanaess" playlist here, and completely done treatments of Baklunish Basin and Zihindia with maps, descriptions, etc. I did full maps of the rest of the continent, but am re-doing them as I continue my series of blog articles. Honestly, Gary did next to nothing with the rest of the world, so there's ample space to fill in a lot of details.

@mikedanforth4570 Ай бұрын

Great video!

@RicardoRios-fp6gl Ай бұрын

I haven’t heard that name since Gary Gygax

@tomyoung8563 Ай бұрын

Grey hawk was the best

@mightymickey8879 2 ай бұрын

Can you recommend which videos of yours to start if I’m looking to run greyhawk for the first time that will fill me in on the best timeframe? I’m running 3.5e core only. I’d like for a classic, gritty, emergent style campaign rather than grandiose stories like modern play. I know you don’t care for the living greyhawk gazetteer (though I didn’t see your video explaining in detail why?) so I’m curious if I would be better served to convert the original or gold box stuff?

@GreyhawkGrognard 2 ай бұрын

I'll eventually be adding them to the "New to Greyhawk? Watch these." playlist.

@OffGridGamer2077 Ай бұрын

@@GreyhawkGrognardAwesome I'll be watching for this.