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Isle of Lost Souls?

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#1
zombiegleemax
Sep 10, 2003 0:11:09 There's a one sentence reference to an "Isle of Lost Souls" in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer entry for North Kingdom, but it doesn't give any indication where this place is or what its deal is.

Any help?

By the way, am I the only one that thinks this Gazetteer reads like it needed at least 50 more pages or so to really "gel" properly? No listing of gods by pantheon, no info on day-to-day life on Oerik, not even an index! For most of the nation entries, it's mostly very dry geographic, military and history info, not what the people there are really like. I'm talking customs, superstitions, attitudes and such. The kind of versimilitude that helps to make these places feel really different from each other culturally. Nothing worse than having players ask "So what country are we in again?"

Anyway, Isle of Lost Souls: What and where is it?
#2
chaeros
Sep 10, 2003 21:08:45 Sorry can't help you with the Isle of lost souls, when jager gets back, he can probably tell you. I can how ever give you a link to expanded lists of deities Here
#3
grodog
Sep 11, 2003 0:01:49 It's from Ivid the Undying, and is one of my favorite creations of Carl Sargent. Per Jason Zavoda's index, see:

Lost Souls, Isle of [ILE]
DRG#294 Pg# - 93
IVID
LGG Pg# - 74

Because there really isn't a standard edition of Ivid, Jason never indexed it by page/section/etc.

I also used the Isle of Lost Souls in my artifacts article in LGJ and in the b-sides from that article on Canonfire! at http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=268
#4
zombiegleemax
Sep 11, 2003 2:47:24 Greyhawk nations have never been drawn out all that clearly. Going back to the '83 boxed set and the "GREYHAWK ADVENTURES" book, all GM's got was the basic stats. The mood of each local has been left up to you.

WGA8 "Fate of Istus" does a nice job of setting up 8 of the capital cities so it might be of use to you.

Also "The Marklands" gives the sort of detailed information you're looking for on Furyondy and Nyrond immediately after the Greyhawk wars.

As far as deities by pantheon, about half the Greyhawk deities belong to more than one pantheon, so I've never seen them broken down that way in an official publication. If its that important, get out any sourcebook and a notebook. I've always thought Greyhawk had way to many deities in the first place. I narrowed it down to 18 for my campaigns, not counting the active Demi-Gods, Iuz and Wastri.

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#1 zombiegleemax Sep 10, 2003 0:11:09	There's a one sentence reference to an "Isle of Lost Souls" in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer entry for North Kingdom, but it doesn't give any indication where this place is or what its deal is. Any help? By the way, am I the only one that thinks this Gazetteer reads like it needed at least 50 more pages or so to really "gel" properly? No listing of gods by pantheon, no info on day-to-day life on Oerik, not even an index! For most of the nation entries, it's mostly very dry geographic, military and history info, not what the people there are really like. I'm talking customs, superstitions, attitudes and such. The kind of versimilitude that helps to make these places feel really different from each other culturally. Nothing worse than having players ask "So what country are we in again?" Anyway, Isle of Lost Souls: What and where is it?
#2 chaeros Sep 10, 2003 21:08:45	Sorry can't help you with the Isle of lost souls, when jager gets back, he can probably tell you. I can how ever give you a link to expanded lists of deities Here
#3 grodog Sep 11, 2003 0:01:49	It's from Ivid the Undying, and is one of my favorite creations of Carl Sargent. Per Jason Zavoda's index, see: Lost Souls, Isle of [ILE] DRG#294 Pg# - 93 IVID LGG Pg# - 74 Because there really isn't a standard edition of Ivid, Jason never indexed it by page/section/etc. I also used the Isle of Lost Souls in my artifacts article in LGJ and in the b-sides from that article on Canonfire! at http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=268
#4 zombiegleemax Sep 11, 2003 2:47:24	Greyhawk nations have never been drawn out all that clearly. Going back to the '83 boxed set and the "GREYHAWK ADVENTURES" book, all GM's got was the basic stats. The mood of each local has been left up to you. WGA8 "Fate of Istus" does a nice job of setting up 8 of the capital cities so it might be of use to you. Also "The Marklands" gives the sort of detailed information you're looking for on Furyondy and Nyrond immediately after the Greyhawk wars. As far as deities by pantheon, about half the Greyhawk deities belong to more than one pantheon, so I've never seen them broken down that way in an official publication. If its that important, get out any sourcebook and a notebook. I've always thought Greyhawk had way to many deities in the first place. I narrowed it down to 18 for my campaigns, not counting the active Demi-Gods, Iuz and Wastri.