Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 mordo Mar 18, 2006 13:24:35	I'm looking to build up a 3.5e Greyhawk Player's Guide, and I want your opinion/thought/comments/help for this project. Here's what I thought the sourcebook should look like: Introduction to the World of Greyhawk In this section I intend to present the World of Greyhawk setting to new players. A brief presentation of Oerth(oceans and continent), then a presentation of Oerik(mythical nation, geography etc.) finaly focusing on the Flanaess(geography, climate, calander, races, history...) Geopolitical information and common knowledge I want to present nations by their geographic division (old ferrond, baklunish west...) with a little description then present each nation with geopolitical info(average pop., pop. composition, rulers, general alignment, principal economy, history, allies and enemies), all within the reach of what is common knowledge (ie: Celene features a majority of elves, Belvor IV is king of Furyondy, Pale trades ore for food...) Organisation and important people I want to put a description of various organisation which are of common knowledga as well as description of important npc (no stats, only background info) that's for the fluffy part, here's the crunchy stuff: Character options optional rules for human racial skill bonus optional rules for regional skill bonus stats for race not in the PHB common enough to be played in Greyhawk optional rules for races from other settings and how they could fit into WoG (warforged as sentient construct from the time of the Mighty Servant of Leuk-O...) Feats: Regional feats from Dragon mags, if we can get the right o publish them as well as new ones Classes: how each class fits within WoG (including the classes from the complete series and other setting) Prestige classes: Presenting prestiges classes, official, semi-official and fan made, available and how they fit into WoG Deities: Presenting deities (much like the living greyhawk deities sourcebook, but more condensed) The main idea is to provide new players enough material to feel confortable with the setting without screwing up the DM and offering them charaters options with descriptions on how to play them accordingly to the WoG feel.
#2 zombiegleemax Mar 18, 2006 22:51:00	Are you going to do all of this yourself? If so, that sounds like an awful lot of work for one guy. Are you advancing the timeline and if so to when. If you need help with writing about countries I'd be willing to do a Cold North barbarian nation or three. :D I know somebody who could help out with a few other places...
#3 mordo Mar 19, 2006 9:05:13	I don't think I would able to do this alone, I'll need as much help as possible. As for the time line I thought about advancing it to CY595-6 and asking every triad a summary of what happened sinc CY591, I don't need a full rundow, but more marking event(ie: Failed coup in Nyrond, Death of King Scotti...) But before doing this I need to know if other are interrested to join the project. Btw, I forgot to mention that I'd like the sourcebook to have a page count of 100 or so, no need to rewright the LGG :D
#4 theocratissak Mar 19, 2006 14:00:57	Hi all - Well I can help a little with the Pale region - but then I do view it differently than the RPGA. What about Dieties? I've been meaning to write a treaty on Pholtus and his differering chuches, so that I could do. And from the way I see it, you'd want it to be short, 1 page or so. What are you planning on doing with this? A word, PDF, or Web site document? If you do it in Word and want it converted to PDF, I can help with that - even give it some cool border art (I purchased some art packs from RPGNow a while ago), as well as other general artwork. If you want this hosted, of course GreyhawkOnline.com is available for that - and it seems like the perfect place (same with CanonFire, but if it's on CF!, it'll actually be hosted on GHO - so, have links to it and write up on both sites). If you are doing this, then I'd look at the OJ and even speak with its current and past editor, see what and how things are done. As in this you'd be the editor and ompiler of references. You should also rejuest the referenced sources from each and have that as part of the book. Why is it that I believe that the Church of the One True Path is different that the one practiced in Greyhawk City, yet both have the same aims. Etc. So that as a reader, I can go do those sources and follow up. This also lends more legitimacy to an authors ideas. Be Well and good luck.
#5 zombiegleemax Mar 19, 2006 14:06:52	I can give you a run down on events and other stuff from LG Onnwal and perhaps a few other places in Greater Ahlissa. ;) P.
#6 mordo Mar 19, 2006 16:50:24	And from the way I see it, you'd want it to be short, 1 page or so. Yes I'd like to keep it short, much like Deities description in the PHB with a table for gameplay info. What are you planning on doing with this? A word, PDF, or Web site document? An office doc(word or publisher) converted to PDF should do the thing. As in this you'd be the editor and ompiler of references. You should also rejuest the referenced sources from each and have that as part of the book I'm just laying the basis for the project, I do not pretend to be the best project coordinator, still it's part of my real life functions :D , I for sure propose myself to do the talk to get info or right to publish. Also I'm glad to see that there are many people interested in providing exhausted data on specific area. I say thanks to that and will be glad to receive all infos available as soon as we can constitute a small work team. Also, even if I'd like to keep the Player's Guide to an average of 100 pages, don't be shy to provide much more info, we'll have to cut and keep only small parts to fit in the sourcebook, but what didn't make in could bu reused for an extend DM guide version.