3orcs D&D Blog: Greyhawk Guides, Campaign Tips, & Dungeon Master Resources

  As Dungeon Masters building immersive worlds in Greyhawk, we often focus on the sprawling dungeons and cursed temples—but what makes a setting breathe are the living villages, the secret roads, and the nameless lieutenants that oil the gears of evil. With this latest update to the Verbobonc Campaign Guide 576 CY , the Hunting Cottage south of Nulb becomes more than just a footnote on a wilderness map—it becomes the nerve center of the Temple of Elemental Evil’s underground war effort. A Cabin Cloaked in Secrecy Located deep in the Kron Hills, buried beneath the dark canopy of the Gnarley Forest, this "innocent hunting lodge" masks the Temple’s most critical logistical node. Thanks to expanded lore and character development from recent articles, the cottage now connects the surface world to the Greater Temple’s lower levels through two secret tunnel entrances—one canon (a vertical shaft through a water well) and one newly developed (a limestone cave reinforced for priso...

  If you've ever tried to run the classic T1–The Village of Hommlet or dive headlong into the Temple of Elemental Evil , then you know how tantalizing—but fragmented—the original material can feel. There’s a brilliance to the foundation Gygax laid, but to truly make the world breathe, a Dungeon Master has to lift the veil and stitch the darkness together. That's what this latest article update for the Leadership of the Temple of Elemental Evil sets out to do. Bringing the Enemy to Life One of the greatest shortcomings in the original module is that the leadership structure of the Temple is vague and uncoordinated. Yes, we have Hedrack, Senshock, Romag, Alrrem, and Belsornig—but how do they function ? Who do they trust? Who spies on whom? How does smuggling operate in Nulb without tipping off the knights of Furyondy? Our latest article does what the module never fully dared: we gave the Temple leadership teeth, chains, spies, and an underground network that now pulses thro...