r/Greyhawk

Has anyone tweaked or rewritten the standard Greyhawk gods for their game?

I wanted to strongly differentiate the major cultural pantheons across the Flanaess. In my campaign the ancient Flan are modelled on Skyrim's Forsworn, so I wanted their gods to be suitably primal & animalistic. I decided to make the Flan gods sort of upscaled land & tribal spirits.

Among other changes to the Flan deities, that meant transforming Nerull from the literal Grim Reaper to a figure more inspired by the Wendigo or the leshy/leshen. Instead of the agriculturally-linked scythe, I gave Nerull a spear with a bone spearhead.

Each Flan god got an animal aspect, which is also their totem-like holy symbol.

Allitur (Ethics, Propriety) heron

Beory (Earth Mother) she-bear

Berei (Family, Community) dog

Earth Dragon dragon

Ehlonna (Forests, Animals, Flowers) unicorn

Joramy (Fire, Wrath, Volcanoes) fiery horse

Mok (Arcane magic) serpent

Myhriss (Love, Beauty) swan

Nerull (Death, Darkness, Underworld) skull-headed stag

Obad-hai (Nature, Hunting) stag or aurochs

Pelor (Sun, Strength, Healing) eagle

Rao (Peace, Reason, Mercy) barn owl

Have you altered the gods in any way in your campaign or do you prefer to use them exactly as written?

Hi everyone,
Just reading through the 83 Goldbox again, this time with a focus on astronomy, time, seasons, etc. I have several things that I can't make heads and tails of:

• Why does Greyhawk/Oerek have 12 month? If Luna makes exactly thirteen cycles a solar year (364 days), wouldn't the cultures have developed a 13 month system? (referring to the baseline data sheet in the Glassography)
• When adjusting the baseline data sheet for latitude it says "For each degree of latitude adjust away from the baseline, the times should be adjusted by two minutes, adding if above 40° north and subtracting if below" This refers to the sunrise/sunset times (the only "times" on the baseline data sheet) Seems more like a longitudinal? Is this a mistake? Adjusting for latitude is of course also important but should work very, very differently.

BASELINE DATA SHEET Glossography - Gold Box 83

Anyone have a resource for 2e Specialty Priests of the Greyhawk Deities? Looking for specific write ups for 2e either ones you may have done or a site that has them. I know about the Forgotten Realm books, looking for a Greyhawk version.