I have recently come across a perfect copy of the “Living Greyhawk Gazetteer”. Complete with map. Back when I used to play D&D, I knew Greyhawk’s geography better than our “real” world… Earth.
I believe I’m going to set our DW campaign here. I still have a lot of the old Adventure Modules set there. It would be easy to convert them over to DW (I think). Plus I have a bunch of DW adventures that would fit right on in there too.
The gazetteer gives rundowns on each kingdom, who rules there (class/race/alignment), etc…
Anyone out there remember this setting?
I still have the poster map hanging on my wall.
Mark Larson Oh man. I miss mine so bad. I remember I was cleaning out a basement in a place my Mom and I were renting and we found a buncha old D&D books, the Greyhawk Gazetteer included. This was hanging up on my wall from ages 11 through 23 (at least)
Greyhawk is probably one of my preferred D&D settings. Not the most Unique, but I have the most fond memories about it.
I am currently running a DW campaign in 1e/2e Greyhawk (Temple of Elemental Evil). It’s got that old school fluff with new school narrative crunch. It’s a blast!
I don’t have much in the way of nostalgia for Greyhawk but I’ve got to say, that map is the kind of place me and my lot always want to end up with after a lengthy campaign. Looks great!
Kinda off-topic but I thought you guys would think it was neat. Not only are all the old “classic” characters from the Greyhawk world (Mordenkainen, Bigby, etc) but the world itself was fleshed out and made as part of Gygax’s multi-campaign spanning world. In other words, it the FIRST first-edition world, even though it wasn’t released until they joined up with TSR.
Oh, and the aforementioned characters were actual players in those campaigns.
I love Greyhawk boxed set, but I hate that was done with “From the Ashes” box. Too much Gygax works bashing IMHO.
The funny thing about Greyhawk is that you look at this map and you imagine Mr. Gygax having written tomes and tomes of lore about it, but in actuality, he hardly detailed ANY of it, and most of what is now ‘canon’ was invented by other people to sell supplements to fill it in. Yes, it has its roots in “the original D&D campaign” and that is where all those wizard names come from, but in actuality, it’s a map with nothing behind it but YOUR imagination.
Which might be why it is awesome.