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Yeah it was actually good movie and I really enjoyed it and it was way better than the ones that came out before (the dragon god movie and book of vile darkness was somehow better than that 2000 movie) and it felt like a dnd movie and as woke as we all thought was gonna be. If the the director (loved his character on Bones) never said that stupid joke and if the other controversies (too long to list that year) never happened that caused a boycott of WOTC then the movie would probably had more success for a sequel. Though I hear they are having a television series but I am kinda skeptic about it. But it was up against John Wick chapter 4 and the Mario movie. I do give the movie a 8 out of 10. Its good but had flaws.

i really enjoy your voice, but the idea is also interesting, i hope you keep up the good work even whilst this only is a short

Outstanding description of the Forgotten Realms. What was your favorite area in the FR, and favorite area in GH?

svengoolie shirt :D <3 berwyn is the next town over from me

That map sucks ass.

Interesting one! Once the PCs catch up with the barbarians, after making their way through some dangerous and cold wilderness, they find out the hard way that the barbarians had an ugly surprise for them in the form of a heinous ice/snow monster that ambushes them. A remoraz [sp?], maybe?

I love this plot hook

This one was really good. Any suggestion on minimums on levels and-or minimum ranger or druids?

Another goodie. You've had a few other clever hook ideas for this area. With the right group of players (i.e. Viking fans) a dm could run a really awesome campaign in this corner of the Flanaess. Depending on the year, maybe even bring in the modules that trigger the Greyhawk War.

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Very interesting adventure hook idea.

I seem to recall hearing somewhere that the original 'campaign' arc envisioned by Gary Gygax started with the Village of Hommlet, progressed to the Temple of Elemental Evil, then moved to the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and lastly to the Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun. I'm not sure if that's true, but to me that feels like a more natural progression than ToEE/Slave Lords/Dragon Queen.

Great find. I rarely read the pc bios, though I knew stern alia first appeared there. I had wondered if "stern" was just an epithet, and since she's referred to as just Alia, and stern is not capitalized in the original tournament version, i have to assume it is, so she is just Alia. Also, the reason for Myrrha's disgrace implies much about Alia's role. She is focused on the law of a community, maybe like Tyr is the god of keeping order during Things

Loving the videos on deities. It'd be nice if they included some of the common legends around that deity. That sort of storytelling would really help anchor the different deities for me.

Want to say that I absolutely love your channel. Your videos have single-handedly convinced me to run a new Greyhawk campaign using the new DnD 2024 rules. Going to start with Temple of Elemental Evil.

You mentioned a more filled in City of Greyhawk map. Source? What map is it?

As much as I am sentimentally nostalgic about Greyhawk... I DO wish Gygax had bothered to factor in actual geographic factors into Greyhawk. The Bright Desert wouldn't be there at all unless it were magically created.

Great video. This is the only chanel on TH-cam where I am watching ALL videos. We were playing the Falcon trilogy in Greyhawk and later the Queen of the Spiders campaign ADnD 2e. When my players returned from Sterich, one of my players, who played a dwarven warrior, settled down in the Bright Desert and opened a mine with his small dwarven army. Unfortunately, this was the end of a 10 years campaign. Just got my hands on Rary the Traitor source book when the campaign ended.

I've always been intrigued by the Bright Desert; I should probably get around to reading "Rary the Traitor" sometime. Wasn't the Scorpion Crown a trick played on the evil King of Sulm (whose name, I take it, is lost to time) by Tharizdun himself, who'd been masquerading as their Flan deity all along? And can someone tell me if that's the same artifact Rary went there to find, and what the heck he'd want with such an accursed item?

Rob Kuntz set things 'right' for Robilar in an early Oerth Journal issue.

Thank you, for continuing to do these videos. The hobby needs and appreciates what you do for it. ❤

It's a very weird place to put a desert, sadly. :( it doesnt seem to make sense meteorologically that a desert would be right there next to the ocean and the forests right next to it. But yes, it is great for variety. Great video.

I’ve shared on this channel before how I transplanted a module series from the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting to the Wooly Bay area, and part of it took place in the Bright Desert. The party needed some ingredients to craft a magic item, and one was “the essence of dragon’s breath.” Rumor had it that a blue dragon was pairing in the Bright Desert, so the party journeyed across the Wooly Bay from Highport (before it was sacked by humanoid hordes) to find it. The alchemist who gave them the instructions gave them a steel rod and said for them to ask the dragon to breathe its electricity on it. I remember one of the PCs asked “how are we supposed to ask a blue dragon to breathe on a steel rod?” The alchemist’s response? “Very politely.” They had several small encounters in the desert, and ultimately met up with the dragon, who would give them what they wanted-if they’d complete a task for him. Hijinks ensued…

Nice! I was literally just thinking of Rary! And his module, Rary The Traitor! Which is one of my all time favorites! So its really cool that this video randomly popped up in my feed! I look forward to listening to it! Thanks! 😊

Your T-shirt game is just on fire lately. You are not only the scholar, but also the fashionista of Greyhawk. As to the Bright Desert, I know I'm predictable, but we may have found my Greyhawk stomping grounds.

Quatermass and the Pit (A.K.A. 5 Million Years to Earth) is my favorite Hammer film.

It is interesting hearing about iconic areas of Greyhawk

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Nice job. I love this area and I am currently running a second campaign in this region with a bunch of Millennials and they love it!

The best place to be if you have a decanter of endless water.

Where is Rary? My Split class human Fighter/Assassin/Arch Mage has a reward to collect!

So, the country all became scorpions, is that when the arid plains became a desert as well?

we were only there for a little bit we had to grab some MacGuffin from a weird tower for a wizard. we did run into a gnome with a ship and a bunch of other gnomes pulling it across the desert🤣 we did help him get to the Woolley Bay we're about to partake in a Sea Adventure so hopefully we run into them

as revealed in the 3e book Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, Lord Robilar was replaced by a magic mirror with his Evil Mirror Self, Bilarro.

Awesome - its really great when u go in depth on a single area.

Being a new DM that has no interest in touching the Forgotten Realms as a campaign setting, I for one, was excited when I heard they were going to use a different default setting and give advice on how to run a game in it. I like that Greyhawk is less fleshed out and more low power. I think it’s pretty likely they won’t do anything that the community can’t just ignore if it’s bad.

I really like these.

I like it when u focus on one country at a time. My friend used to have full maps of GreyHawk and Forgotten Realms, and would put a pin where each adventure module was located. That would be so cool - and to warn the players of danger lol.

Just send in the Cat Lord.

Enjoy your Greyhawk lore immensely. Good work!

Any way u might do something with Olidammara or Dalt, the god of magic portals, locks, etc. Or maybe a side adventure?

Rao is mentioned in Isle of the Ape, Gary Gygax gave little other information though.

Assassins be dangerous guys. Sneaky pricks.

Gary Gygax was great at his writing and world building, but he was also a master at melding other's ideas together cohesively. The way he combined different mechanics from Dragon and elsewhere into D&D is an example. Also, of course combining stories, modules, and campaigns from other authors. The only setting I really love from the 2nd ed days was Planescape, which seems like a great fleshing out of Gary's Great Wheel multiverse, and his combining of settings and mythologies.

A marriage is supposed to end in death.

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Hmm 🤔. I see a lot of potential with this adventure hook. Two groups of spies and assassins in the employ of Iuz and neither one knows about the other, except for the player characters. I, as the DM would want to find a way for the players to get the two spy groups to fight one another.