Greyhawk
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Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year—the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972, and after being published it remained associated with Dungeons & Dragons publications until 2008.
Key facts
- Game.title
- Greyhawk
- Game.image
- File:WotC Greyhawk.jpg
- Game.designer
- Gary Gygax
- Game.publisher
- TSR, Inc.Wizards of the Coast
- Game.date
- 1980
- Game.random_chance
- Dice rolling
- Game.genre
- Fantasy
- Game.system
- Dungeons & Dragons
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- publication date
- 1980-00-00
- inception
- 1973-00-00
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48 sectionsContents
- Setting
- Development history
- Early development
- Home campaign (1972–1979)
- Significant player characters
- Greyhawk firsts
- The first publication to mention Greyhawk
- The first mention of Oerth
- The first deities of Greyhawk
- The first Greyhawk novel
- The first Greyhawk adventures published by TSR
- ''The World of Greyhawk'' folio edition (1980)
- Development of geography
- Development of history and politics
- Publication
- Between editions (1980–1983)
- More information about every political region
- Deities of Greyhawk
- Non-player characters of Greyhawk
- TSR Greyhawk adventures published after the folio edition
- ''World of Greyhawk'' boxed set (1983)
- After publication of the boxed set (1984–1985)
- Greyhawk modules
- ''Dragon'' articles
- Gygax departs
- Greyhawk without Gygax (1986–1987)
- Greyhawk novels continue without Gord the Rogue
- The dungeons of Greyhawk revealed
- Greyhawk revived (1988–1990)
- ''The City of Greyhawk'' boxed set
- Modules released under the ''Greyhawk Adventures'' banner
- A new vision of the Flanaess (1991–1997)
- The ''Greyhawk Wars''
- ''From the Ashes''
- TSR drops Greyhawk
- Wizards of the Coast (1998–2008)
- ''25th anniversary of D&D''
- Third edition (2000–2008)
- ''Living Greyhawk''
- Wizards of the Coast Greyhawk releases
- Fourth and fifth edition of ''D&D'' (2008–present)
- Fourth edition
- Fifth edition
- Unofficial Greyhawk sources
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year—the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972, and after being published it remained associated with Dungeons & Dragons publications until 2008.
The world itself started as simply a dungeon under a castle designed by Gary Gygax for the amusement of his children and friends, but it was rapidly expanded to include not only a complex multi-layered dungeon environment, but also the nearby city of Greyhawk, and eventually an entire world. In addition to the campaign world, which was published in several editions over twenty years, Greyhawk was also used as the setting for many adventures published in support of the game, as well as for RPGA's massively shared Living Greyhawk campaign from 2000 to 2008.