Hommlet: Hoonan Farmhouse

The following is an entry in my series on Ultimate Greyhawk. Much like how comics and movies will reboot a franchise with a new take on an old concept, this is my personal re-imagining of the Greyhawk Campaign Setting beginning with the venerable town of Hommlet.

Key to the Village

The following locations are numbered based on how they appear on the map of the village of Hommlet as found in the module T1-4 The Temple of Elemental Evil.

2. Hoonan Farmhouse

Elmo Hoonan

This is the home of farmer and Captain of the town's militia Bodasen Hoonan. He lives here with his wife Ulmentha, two sons Elmo and Otis, and a servant named Pavek. The couple are devout worshipers of Saint Cuthbert and thus are pragmatic and hard workers. The same cannot be said of their tow sons. Elmo is a slow witted drunk with aspirations to join an adventuring party. This is not an act, he is actually as dumb as he seems and if recruited by an adventuring party will pose a serious liability. Otis on the other hand inherited the brains his brother sorely lacks. He is a con artist and a rogue. He divides his time between Hommlet and Nulb and frequently direct merchant caravans and adventurers into well planned ambushes by bandits from Nulb. Bodasen and his wife realize that both their sons are lost causes, yet familial loves prevents them from acting against them. In fact Bodasen will often use his clout as Captain of the militia to protect his sons from any sort of accusations levelled at them and going as far as hiding evidence of any wrong doings.  

Hommlet: The Ginter Farmhouse

The following is an entry in my series on Ultimate Greyhawk. Much like how comics and movies will reboot a franchise with a new take on an old concept, this is my personal re-imagining of the Greyhawk Campaign Setting beginning with the venerable town of Hommlet.

Key to the Village

The following locations are numbered based on how they appear on the map of the village of Hommlet as found in the module T1-4 The Temple ofElemental Evil.

1. Ginter Farm House

A farmer named Zoltan lives here with his two sons Ivan and Sully and a pack of unruly dogs.They are followers of the Old Faith and thus have little liking for the Church of Saint Cuthbert and it's followers. This past season the family planted some new seeds that they purchased for next to nothing from a merchant passing through town. Unfortunately for the Ginter's and the rest of the town this passing merchant was actually an evil druid and member of the Twilight Druid Circle based out of the Moat House. The seeds are actually a new type of Twig Blight seedling that will soon begin to terrorize the town and numerous other locals where they have been planted.  

Wisdom From PLANET ALGOL

I finally found the blog post that I was talking about when I referenced the idea of an Ultimate Forgotten Realms campaign. That blog was of course the most rad and greatly missed PLANET ALGOL blog the blog post can be found here.

On a similar train of thought I've been writing up some notes on an Ultimate Greyhawk. The idea being that this is a reboot of the Greyhawk Setting. One of the campaigns I've always wanted to run was the classic Temple of Elemental Evil,  Against the Giants, and Descent into the Depths series of modules.

One of the things that often happens is that as I gear up to run this I get so obsessed over canon that I just give up. However now that I allow myself to be unshackled from the chains of canon I can just run with it and really make it my own campaign.

So I started with the village of Hommlet. I have the beginnings of some actual notes that take the village in some very radical directions from what Gary wrote. But you know what I think that's what Gary would've wanted. For us to take his toys and run with them. To make them our toys, to make it our game and play it anyway we felt was the most fun for us.