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#1 faraer Aug 12, 2003 12:55:53	Troll Lord Games has posted a preview for Living Fantasy. For those of us for whom Greyhawk is more than a set of place names and a fixed continuity, this book, which describes the kind of quasi-medieval society that Gygax envisages in settings like the World of Greyhawk and Lejendary Earth, is as good as dammit a Greyhawk sourcebook, just as The Canting Crew, World Builder, and Gygax and Creffield's Slayer's Guides to Dragons and Undead are. Sorry if this sounds like a sales spiel. But I'm happy that this book is a-coming that I preordered months ago.
#2 zombiegleemax Aug 14, 2003 2:09:45	Is it true about Slayers Guide to Dragons having a Greyhawk adventure?
#3 cwslyclgh Aug 14, 2003 2:33:56	I believe it just mentions Iggwilv, and is otherwise generic, although I could be wrong (as I only scanned it breifly).
#4 faraer Aug 14, 2003 11:42:23	Yes. "The Revenge of Ghorkai" uses some name swaps as the Gord novels do, but it's set in northern Veluna and the Yatils. And the other adventure and adventure hooks in those books are Greyhawk in all but name, similarly to how B2 is. ...and the Slayer's Guide to Dragons has the gholles and ghulaz introduced in Gygax's novels, and the explanation of undead in terms of Orcus fits Oerth as well...
#5 gadodel Aug 14, 2003 21:30:20	Interesting, I'll check it out too... :D
#6 Monteblanco Aug 15, 2003 11:21:04	Originally posted by Faraer Yes. "The Revenge of Ghorkai" uses some name swaps as the Gord novels do, but it's set in northern Veluna and the Yatils. And the other adventure and adventure hooks in those books are Greyhawk in all but name, similarly to how B2 is. ...and the Slayer's Guide to Dragons has the gholles and ghulaz introduced in Gygax's novels, and the explanation of undead in terms of Orcus fits Oerth as well... Is the Orcus reference in the Dragons or more appropiately in the Undeadbooks? Is there enough Oerthian information to justify the purchase of these books by a Greyhawk fan?
#7 faraer Aug 15, 2003 11:49:13	The Orcus stuff is all in the Undead book. If you came at Greyhawk via From the Ashes or a later incarnation, these books probably won't satisfy you, as the references to specific World of Greyhawk history and geography are few and disguised. (Though it's good stuff in any case.) If you're interested in the world as Gygax originally conceived it, you'll find that almost everything in these two books -- from adventure hooks to draconic ecology -- gels perfectly with the world described in the 1983 boxed set, the Monster Manual, and the DMG.