Canonfire! Chronicles Issue 1 - Le Monde de Greyhawk

A D&D® LIVING GREYHAWK
Geoff Regional Adventure — Version 0.0
Written for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS v3.5
By Adam Thomas
Cartography by Crystal Rose Piper aka “Kitty”
Art by Mike Lowe and James Tillman
A small town all but forgotten
in war. A plea for help, and a
desperate choice to make.
Adventurers must decide who
lives and who dies, all while
saving the lives of the innocent
townsfolk. What consequences
will their choices bring? A
LIVING GREYHAWK Geoff
Regional Adventure for
Characters Level 2-8.
PREFACE
Dear Reader
I cannot tell you how happy I am that the adventure you are
about to read has finally reached the hands of the fans. The story
of this adventure is an interesting footnote in the history of LIVING
GREYHAWK. The people here at Cannonfire! have asked me to
give you a little backstory about LIVING GREYHAWK and this
adventure.
LIVING GREYHAWK (LG) was a shared campaign setting using the
3.0 D&D edition, then converting to the 3.5 edition Wizards of the
Coast, DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS rules. This was not a new idea.
TSR had conceived the idea of a massive shared living campaign
world in the 1990s using their Advanced DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS
2nd edition rules. The LIVING GREYHAWK campaign debuted at
GenCon 2000 using the new 3.0 rule system. The real world was
split up into different regions, each assigned a corresponding
region in the Greyhawk campaign setting. Each region was
administered by a group of volunteers that worked with Wizards
of the Coast through the ROLE PLAYING GAME ASSOCIATION®
(RPGA) which administered the entire Living Greyhawk
campaign. Three individuals would be the ultimate authority over
each area. This Triad would oversee and approve the adventures as
well as set the overall story arcs for their regions.
Players in the RPGA would create characters and play in
adventures in whatever region they were physically in at the time.
Wizards of the Coast created rules that no one could just run an
adventure any time anywhere. Once an adventure was released a
player had to physically be in the appropriate region to play it, and
after a time, the adventure would close and no one else could play
the adventure. This meant that as time passed, a player’s character
would evolve differently than others, completing some adventures
while missing others. As an example, I live in Virginia so my
home region was the Duchy of Geoff. I would have had to visit
North Carolina to play in a Keoland adventure.
My first experiences with LIVING GREYHAWK were as a player. I
attended a local convention in my home town and after my first
adventure I never looked back. An RGPA Convention
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