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Greyhawkonline.com is truly pleased to offer this page, written by its original author, Krista B. Siren, two decades ago back in the late 90s. Krista began her project in the late 80s, and by the time she went to college in 1990, she already had 40 pages of notes! From early 1998 to ’99, Krista endeavored to hand-code HTML to cross-reference and catalog ever single Proper Noun and reference point she could find in all the Gord the Rogue novels.
This was before Wikipedia had ever even launched. She created pages that referenced each other, linking them back and forth, so that a user could quickly and easily research all the topics by clicking related links and explore through the pages going from topic to topic.
A site with internally linked pages was a concept that was mind-boggling at the time even though wikis exist everywhere today and the idea of it not being a thing can’t be fathomed now.
At the time, Krista’s work became a popular success, and its usefulness as a resource lasted for many years.
Unfortunately, once the research was complete and the project mostly complete, it languished and became less consistently updated and became a static page but was still a popular resource.
Eventually, the host changed but Krista maintained the page on a series of servers until about October of 2015. It was only three years later (in 2018) that GHO.com decided to not let such a wonderful resource disappear from the ‘net or from readers’ attention, and asked Krista to allow Gord’s Greyhawk to have a new home at GreyhawekOnline.

And so, what follows here (and all the following pages) is Krista’s original works converted to a more modern format. Read on, and enjoy!

Links – Please be aware, this page, due to its original publication date, includes links to sites that no longer are on the net, and so, some links (especially to “members.aol.com/bobhrad”) have been converted to links to the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org. Others may be no longer functional due to their hosts no longer existing. Some of these links are kept as-is for the sake of retaining archived data. – Editors

Disclaimer:
This page is not an official TSR or Trigee page. It is derived from material written by Gary Gygax for those companies and the use of such trademarks as D&D, AD&D, World of Greyhawk, Greyhawk Adventures, Gord the Rogue et al. do not constitute challenges to the trademarks which may be owned by either of the above companies.

I have now completed my initial proofreading, formatting, and cross-ref linking, the original format having been uploaded from my ancient Mac SE/30 in June of ’98. [-Krista Siren 2/2/99]

I began working on this document while reading the Greyhawk Adventures/Gord the Rogue series of novels back in the mid to late eighties while in high school. At that time there was very little information available on the City of Greyhawk – that boxed set had not yet come out and neither had the second edition of AD&D.; I noticed that there was a good deal of campaign relevant information available in the novels and began taking notes. I later noticed that EGG’s Greyhawk differed quite a bit from the Greyhawk material that was published after he and TSR parted ways. I found his Greyhawk to be richer and more vibrant, which only made sense as Oerth was his campaign world. Carl Sargent’s supplements captured much of the detail and spirit that I found in Gygax’s Greyhawk, and the Brown/Moore/Johnson/Reynolds version seems an interesting attempt to reconcile the old with the new, but these notes had already lent much depth to my own campaign. Also included here are references to pre-1986 Greyhawk material when specifically indicated, including pointers to Dragon articles and Greyhawk information which appeared in non-Greyhawk rule books, such as the 1st edition DMG. I had refrained from making them freely available until recently, when TSR’s copyright policy reduced in strictness and when I was able to get the ok from Mr. Gygax and Trigee to make public my notes on their lands and characters. Again, this is in no way an official document for TSR or Trigee. Expect major plot spoilers for those novels to be found within these notes.

– Krista Siren

Contents:

The Planes

Miscellany and other

Bibliography:

  • 1. Gygax, E. Gary Saga of Old City Random House Inc. dist. TSR Inc., Lake Geneva WI, 1985.
  • 2. Gygax, E. Gary City of Hawks, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
  • 3. Gygax, E. Gary Dragon # 100 “At Moonset the Blackcat Comes” 1985.
  • 4. Gygax, E. Gary Night Arrant, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
  • 5. Gygax, E. Gary Artifact of Evil Random House Inc. dist. TSR Inc., Lake Geneva WI, 1986.
  • 6. Gygax, E. Gary Sea of Death, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1987.
  • 7. Gygax, E. Gary Come Endless Darkness, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1988.
  • 8. Gygax, E. Gary Dance of Demons, Berkley Publishing Group, NY, 1988

Links

  • Tom Harrison chairs The Council of Greyhawk which includes the archives of the Oerth Journal, a net-zine which has recently featured some of Rob “Robilar” Kuntz’s recollections of the Greyhawk campaign including Erac’s cousin and a certain demon from S4, and Robilar and Mordenkainen’s adventure in Dave Arneson’s City of the Gods from his Blackmoor campaign.
  • Roger E. Moore, excellent former Dragon Magazine editor and a current TSR game designer, has compiled a listing and brief descriptions of the various references to the Greyhawk campaign published in TSR and non-TSR sources, from Men and Magic in 1974, to the fragments of Ivid the Undying which appeared in Dragon Magazine in 1994 in this Greyhawk Index.
  • Carl Sargent’s Ivid the Undying is a thorough look at the Great Kingdom, in the From the Ashes time.
  • Randy Richards coordinates the World of Greyhawk Fan Club on AOL.

Consider the original material found herein and the organization and phrasiology applied to the old material to be Copyright 1998 by Krista Siren and may be reused as far as I’m concerned, so long as I’m credited with researching it. Of course, you’ll have to comply with TSR & Trigee’s guidelines as well, but if it’s just for personal use you’re in the clear.

Released under Creative Commons-Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives license, v4.0 [CC-BY-NC-ND].