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flappeercraft
2017-04-19, 06:56 PM
So what books, dragon magazines, etc for 3.X edition are there that are around Greyhawk campaign setting? Any that have information but are not based around greyhawk are also ok. Anything 1st party/dragon magazine is ok

ksbsnowowl
2017-04-20, 12:02 AM
Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk

Presumably the entire 3.0 Adventure Path series (Sunless Citadel thru Bastion of Broken Souls) is set in Greyhawk (one of the hooks in one adventure mentions a Greyhawk location - The Lendore Isles)

Expedition to the Demonweb Pits, being a revisiting of 1st edition's GDQ series* is ostensibly set in Greyhawk/Planescape, since the locations in the G Series and the D Series are specifically Greyhawk locations. The Demonweb itself has a planar door to the Drow city of Erelhei-Cinlu, which is a specific location in Greyhawk (see Vault of the Drow).

Drow of the Underdark has an entire chapter on the city of Erelhei-Cinlu, and points out specific things such as the half-drow of Greyhawk being merely dusky-skinned Half-Elves (as in, the PHB race), and not the same as the Half-Drow from Races of Faerun, but provides a Drow Legacy feat that they could take to gain back some of the normal abilities of full-blooded drow.

Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil is obviously set in Greyhawk.

Edit: This will be helpful: http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_dungeon_adventures.html
Also, this will be helpful, as it mentions some things like Web Enhancements (such as for Song and Silence) that are set in Greyhawk locations: http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6

* G1-G3, Against the Giants; D1-D3, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, and Vault of the Drow; Q1, Queen of the Spiders

Yael
2017-04-20, 12:11 AM
You could check the Greyhawk Gazeteer. It pretty much describes Oerth, its cities, lands and some characters.

Living Greyhawk Gazeteer also exists.

Zombimode
2017-04-20, 04:00 AM
Shackled City, Age of Worms and Savage Tide are all set in Greyhawk, although Shackled City's ties to the Setting are loose. But Age of Worms heavily draws upon the settings's lore, places and characters.

Likewise, there are many adventures printed in the Dungeon Magazine that are set in Greyhawk. There are also several Backdrop articles in Dungeon that deal with places in Greyhawk (the cities of Exag in Perrenland and Istivin in Sterich come to mind).

Besides that you can still use the older material for fluff.

Bronk
2017-04-20, 05:44 AM
Greyhawk is the default setting for 3.0/3.5, so the list includes everything not specifically for a different setting.

ksbsnowowl
2017-04-20, 02:03 PM
Greyhawk is the default setting for 3.0/3.5, so the list includes everything not specifically for a different setting.

True. The Ravagers (PrC in Comp Warrior), and things like that are all Greyhawk-based.

hexsystem
2017-04-20, 02:34 PM
DMG2 has the city of Saltmarsh, which I believe is located in Greyhawk