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Where in Greyhawk?

I am an enduring Greyhawk fan. I’ve been running campaigns in my beloved Greyhawk since the mid-eighties. When I started Raging Swan Press, one of my design goals was that anything we published should be easily portable into Greyhawk.
Where in Greyhawk?

I am an enduring Greyhawk fan. I’ve been running campaigns in my beloved Greyhawk since the mid-eighties. When I started Raging Swan Press, one of my design goals was that anything we published should be easily portable into Greyhawk.

That’s one of the main reasons why I haven’t designed my own comprehensive setting. I get a steady stream of questions about how the Lonely Coast and Ashlar fit together and requests for a world map. That’s not really what I’m about. I much prefer designing things a GM can plonk down (that’s a technical design term) in their own world pretty much wherever they fancy or need it to be.

For example, the Shadowed Keep on the Borderland essentially requires a small town and a relatively isolated piece of woodland—preferably on a borderland. Such locales are easy to find in almost any campaign.

South Ashlar (Cartography by Tommi Salama)

Similarly, both The Lonely Coast and Duchy of Ashlar are small, independent realms. Each would only fill only a hex or two on the Greyhawk map—and there is a lot of empty space in Greyhawk.

So, if you ask me where things “should” go in Greyhawk my answer is: wherever works for you!

If you pushed me, though, either mini-campaign would work well in the vicinity or Ratik, southern Keoland or as a replacement for Dullstrand.