What’s Old is New Again!

Many of our readers have been playing in the World of Greyhawk for years, now.

Just as many, perhaps more, are new to the setting, since it is so widely mentioned alongside other major settings in the D&D 5e core books.

One of the greatest missions of GreyhawkOnline.com is to preserve and share the writings of fans and professional authors that relate to the World of Greyhawk.  Many websites of yesteryear have fallen to the ravages of the ages and many fans lament the loss of many of those sites, since they contained a great deal of resources. 

We are pleased to say, GHO is continually in the process of trying to revive and preserve those sites, and recently we’ve accomplished that for at least two major sites.  Krista Siren’s Gord’s Greyhawk, and Russ Taylor’s Greyhawk Online Adventures are two sites that many fans used to use regularly.  And it gives us great pleasure to tell you that Gord’s Greyhawk is now going to be hosted through GHO, and it looks like Russ Taylor’s site also will be soon, as well. 

We’ve been in talks to get some of the original site files and retrieve others from old archives.  And we’ve begun posting some of the pages. 
They’re interesting, primarily, because they’re a look at the World of Greyhawk gamers wouldn’t otherwise get to see. 

One of the popular sayings relating to GH is wheels within wheels.  And Krista’s site, especially, really shows that. There’s always something else that’s another click deeper into the site that’s just one more subject to read into. 
All those years ago, it was almost like a wiki.  But, 15 years ago, Wikipedia wasn’t really even barely a thing.  In 2004, “Wikipedia” wasn’t even a registered trademark yet, the site was still in its infancy, and “wiki” had not even entered the social lexicon, yet.
Krista’s Gord’s Greyhawk focuses on the novels by E. Gary Gygax.  Which are substantially different than the World of Greyhawk as published by TSR, Inc. and later by Wizards of the Coast (WotC).  And so, a site devoted strictly to the novels was a rarity then, and is even more so today.

Russ Taylor’s site, Greyhawk Online Adventures is a great resource, as well.  One of the first things one sees on it is his Repair to the Keep on the Borderlands; a conversion of the original module to have proper references to people, places, and deities native to the World of Greyhawk.  It’s a fascinating look at the module and points out a lot of things readers wouldn’t otherwise think of regarding culture, names, and details of the setting. 

                One of the reasons this conversion is so significant is that when it was published it wasn’t a common thing for a sidebar or paragraph to be written which addressed the location or setting of an adventure, if it were used in other published settings.  Now, that’s actually the norm.  And so, the idea that a fan would do the conversion and then share it openly and for free on the internet really speaks volumes of the kind of community that was around at the time. 

                And it’s the kind of community that GHO tries to foster. 
Creating and Sharing for the World of Greyhawk.

                We are all fans of in the World of Greyhawk.  And we can all create a myriad of different versions of Greyhawk.  And we can enjoy the creations of our friends and fellow fans, and share them with each other, inspiring each other to play our own way, each in their own home ‘Hawk, or in a version shared with others! 

                Create and Share!

“… ’til the starbreak!”