" Gygax wrote the supplements Greyhawk, Eldritch Wizardry, and Swords & Spells for the original D & D game.

It was the first new Greyhawk adventure in three years, but it had nothing to do with Gygax's original Castle Greyhawk.

In the January 1988 issue of Dragon, Jim Ward — one of the original players in the dungeons of Greyhawk, creator of the wizard Drawmij, and now working for TSR in the post-Gygax era — requested player input about what should be included in a hardcover source book for Greyhawk.

In the time since Gygax had left TSR, no original Greyhawk material had been published, and many letter writers had requested ideas for new adventures.

The first book, Atlas of the Flanaess, was a replacement for Gygax's original World of Greyhawk boxed set, with some changes.

The year 1999 marked twenty five years since the publication of the original Dungeons & Dragons rules, and WotC sought to lure older gamers back to Greyhawk by producing a series of nostalgia-tinged Return to ... adventures that evoked the best-known Greyhawk modules from 20 years before, under the banner 25th Anniversary of D & D:

Although the original had been in a generic setting, the new adventure set the Keep in Greyhawk.

Although TSR and WotC had each in turn owned the official rights to the World of Greyhawk since the first folio edition was published in 1980, the two people most responsible for its early development, Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, still had most of their original notes regarding the fifty levels of dungeons under Castle Greyhawk.

Since WotC still owned the rights to the name Greyhawk, Gygax changed the name of the castle to Castle Zagyg — the reverse homophone of his own name originally ascribed to the mad architect of his original thirteen level dungeon.

The two part fold out map of the area was rendered by Darlene Pekul, the same artist who had produced the original map for the folio edition of World of Greyhawk.

In October 2010, Black Blade Publishing announced that they would be publishing several of Kuntz's original Greyhawk levels, including the Machine Level, the Boreal Level, the Giants ' Pool Hall, and the Garden of the Plantmaster.

However in the original world of Greyhawk campaign setting created by Gary Gygax, Drow rank structure was based much more on personal experience level and proven personal abilities rather than on gender.

The vast majority of Drow Elves both male and female in the original campaign setting of Greyhawk have no authority or ranking at all and live an idle and degenerate life in the great city of the Drow.

The original Blackmoor product was published by Tactical Studies Rules ( TSR ) in 1975, as the second supplement to D & D ( the first being Greyhawk ).

The five chaotic-aligned dragon types from the 1974 boxed set, as well as the gold dragon and the four new dragon types from the Greyhawk supplement ( the copper dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, and silver dragon ) appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual ( 1977 ), along with Bahamut and Tiamat.

This book was a novelization of the original T1-4 adventure, and featured characters based on those that Reid and his friends had developed while playing the module as part of a Greyhawk campaign in college.

It remains the only D & D related computer game set in the original Greyhawk setting.

Although the original B2 publication was generic in terms of setting, the 1999 Return module placed the Keep in Yeomanry, making it a canonical location in the World of Greyhawk.

In 1990, TSR also published WGR1 Greyhawk Ruins, a module and source book about Castle Greyhawk by TSR writers Blake Mobley and Timothy Brown.

Nothing more about Greyhawk was ever published by TSR, with one exception: in May 1995, a Dragon column devoted to industry gossip noted that the manuscript of Ivid the Undying had been released by TSR as a computer text file.

A team of people was put together to revive the moribund Greyhawk setting by pulling together all the previously published information about it.

* Wesley Phillips ' Greyhawk Page It has some sources of information about Greyhawk from AD & D edition.

( For more information about the first days of Gygax's home campaign, see Greyhawk.

The series, originally designed to provide some social and descriptive details about Gygax's Greyhawk campaign world that he had not been able to fit into the limited space of either the 1980 folio edition or the 1983 boxed set, were written in a pulp swords and sorcery style reminiscent of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories.

Night Arrant is a collection of nine short stories about Gord's adventures, in his early twenties, in the City of Greyhawk.

Greyhawk Adventures contains information about Greyhawk deities, clerics, major non-player characters, monsters, geography, spells of the setting's famous magic-users ( such as Bigby and Otiluke ), magic items of the setting, rules for playing zero-level characters, and six short adventures.

TSR released Greyhawk Adventures in response to requests from Greyhawk fans, and the book is unusual among AD & D hardcover manuals in that the author solicited input from the gaming community about what subjects to include in the book before publishing it.

In 1988, most of the same information about Pholtus re-appeared in the Greyhawk Adventures source book.

The second book, the Campaign Book, was designed to supplement, rather than replace, the four year old City of Greyhawk boxed set.

Campaign worlds such as the World of Greyhawk detail entire cosmologies and timelines of thousands of years, while the setting of a game such as Deadlands might only describe one nation within a brief segment of alternate history.

The Greyhawk Campaign supplement ( 1975 ) added the copper dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, and silver dragon, along with the Platinum Dragon ( Bahamut ) and the Chromatic Dragon ( Tiamat ).

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.

In order to try to avoid these problems, Living Greyhawk used Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition ( later v3. 5 ), but modified by a set of " house rules " set out in the Living Greyhawk Campaign Sourcebook.

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0 ( Wizards of the Coast, 2005 ).

Books he has worked on for the d20-based 3rd edition include the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Savage Species, and Ghostwalk ( co-written with Monte Cook ).

Living Greyhawk Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, version 2. 0.