The Velunans pride themselves on being the first people to adopt the faith of Nomism . Whether or not this is true, it is certain that the V...

Occupying a narrow, rocky peninsula, Onnwal has ever relied on the sea and the hills for its livelihood. When it was an obedient part of the...

Art by Gary Gianni. Check out all those polearms! While my Greyhawk series of posts are all just sort of pseudo-encyclopedia entry sort of s...

Proud Keoland is the oldest of the human nations of the Flanaess. Though diminished from its greatest glory, its rulers never bowed to lords...

  Last year, I was working on a blog series doing my own take on the world of Greyhawk. As it goes with these things, my interest petered ou...

Art by Jeff Easley A lot has been written about the "Myth of the Frontier" underpinnings of D&D, and the games perhaps greater...

In the waning days of the Great Kingdom, folk who were faced with debts they could not pay or disagreements with the legal authorities that ...

Art by Mihai Radu The Overking was traditionally appointed by vote of the magnates ruling the constituent territories of the Aedi. One of th...

Under the enlightened rule of the Herzogin Eliamund, South Province could reasonably boast to being the most cultured and genteel realm of t...

I've got more posts to come, but I figured it was a good time to put all the posts I've written so far together in one place: The pr...

Art by Keith Parkinson The barbarians swept out of the hills in a ravening horde, without warning, and stormed Venarium with such fury none ...

Tenh (the nh diagraph is pronounced as a voiced palatal nasal like the Spanish ñ ) as the heir to the proud culture of the Flannae. Its pe...

The area known as the Pale, as the name would suggest, once served as the border of Aerdy with the holdings of the Flan and the humanoid tri...

Nomism (not to be confused with Gnomism!) is the umbrella term for the doctrinally diverse and often competing churches of Law in the Flanae...

 Not for the first time, I've been thinking about the best presentation style for setting material. This time it was prompted by re-read...

 In thinking about Greyhawk for my recent posts, I've been inspired by Anna Meyer's great maps. Particularly her climate map which h...

Ket sits astride a major route of commerce between the Oeridian East and the Baklunish West. Its people are a mixture of those cultures, tho...

The origin of the so-called humanoids of eastern Oerik is something of a mystery. They first entered history as mercenaries and foederati of...

Rel Astra is one of the major port cities of the Great Kingdom. It is an old city of the Aerdy, the original seat of the early Aerdian Churc...

The See of Medegia is a territory ostensibly within the Great Kingdom of Aerdy that is under direct sovereign rule of the Holy Censor of the...