Greyhawk Wikipedia. Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons Dragonsfantasyroleplaying game. Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons DragonsDave Arnesons Blackmoor campaign predated it by over a year3 the world of Greyhawk was the setting most closely identified with the development of the game from 1. The world itself started as a simple dungeon under a castle designed by Gary Gygax for the amusement of his children and friends, but it 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 RPGAs massively shared Living Greyhawk campaign from 2. Early developmenteditIn the late 1. Gary Gygax, a military history buff and pulpfantasy fan, started to add elements of fantasy into traditional tabletop medieval miniatures wargames at his games club in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He sometimes replaced typical medieval weapons with magical spells, or used dragons and other fantastical monsters in place of soldiers. In 1. Chainmail that he was co writing, he created supplementary rules for magical spells and monsters as well as one on one combat. University Of Findlay Faculty Handbook on this page. Around the same time, in MinneapolisSt. Paul, another tabletop wargamer, Dave Arneson, was also developing a new type of game. Arneson had been impressed by the Napoleonic tabletop Braunstein campaigns of fellow wargamer David Wesely that developed elements of what is now called role playing, such as using a neutral referee or judge and having the players take on the roles of imaginary characters to resolve challenges. However, Arneson soon grew tired of the Napoleonic setting, and one night when the gaming group assembled, he presented a plastic model of a castle in place of the usual battlefield,9 and told the players that instead of controlling regiments that night, they would each take one individual character into the castle of the Barony of Blackmoor to explore its dangerous dungeons. For combat resolution, he started by using rock paper scissors,1. Chainmail and a nautical wargame he had co written with Gary Gygax and Mike Carr called Dont Give Up the Ship1. What set Arnesons game apart from Weselys tabletop wargaming was that the players could keep the same characters from session to session, and that the characters advanced by developing better abilities or powers over time. Arnesons Minneapolis St. Paul Napoleonic gaming group was in touch with Gygaxs Lake Geneva group, and Arneson mentioned the dungeons of his Blackmoor game that the group was playing on alternate weekends. Gygax was interested, so during a visit to Lake Geneva in the autumn of 1. Arneson ran a session of his Blackmoor dungeons with Gygax as a player. Gygax was immediately intrigued by the concept of individual characters exploring a dungeon setting,1. He and Arneson agreed to co develop a set of rules based on Chainmail. Gygax took two weeks to write up 5. Castle Greyhawk, and preparing the first level of a dungeon that lay beneath it. Two of his children, Ernie and Elise, were the first players,1. Tenser and Ahlissa,1. Greyhawk dungeon Gygax recalled them as being either giant centipedes2. During the same session, Ernie and Elise also found the first treasure, a chest of 3,0. After his children had gone to bed, Gygax immediately began working on a second level for the dungeon. A1-4 Scourge Of The Slave Lords Pdf' title='A1-4 Scourge Of The Slave Lords Pdf' />At the next play session, Ernie and Elise were joined by Gygaxs friends Don Kaye, Rob Kuntz, and Terry Kuntz. About a month after his first session, Gygax created the nearby city of Greyhawk, where the players characters could sell their treasure and find a place to rest. Home campaign 1. As Gygax and Arneson worked to develop and publish the rules for Dungeons Dragons through TSR, Gygax continued to design and present the dungeons and environs of Castle Greyhawk to his circle of friends and family, using them as playtesters for new rules and concepts. As the players began to explore more of the world outside of the castle and city, Gygax developed other regions and cities for them. With play sessions occurring seven or more times a week,2. Gygax didnt have the time or inclination to create the map for a whole new world he simply drew his world over a map of North America, adding new cities and regions as his world slowly grew through ongoing adventures. The city and castle of Greyhawk were placed near the real world position of Chicago, his birthplace various other places were clustered around it. For instance, the rival city of Dyvers he placed in the area of real world Milwaukee. Gygax also continued to develop the dungeons underneath the castle. By the time he was finished, the complex labyrinth encompassed thirteen levels filled with devious traps, secret passageways, hungry monsters, and glittering treasure. Although details of these original Greyhawk dungeons have never been published in detail, Gygax gave some glimpses of them in an article he wrote for the European fanzine Europa in 1. Before the rules for D D were published, Old Greyhawk Castle was 1. The first level was a simple maze of rooms and corridors, for none of the participants had ever played such a game before. The second level had two unusual items, a Nixie pool and a fountain of snakes. The third featured a torture chamber and small cells and prison rooms. The fourth was a level of crypts and undead. The fifth was centered around a strange font of black fire and gargoyles. The sixth was a repeating maze with dozens of wild hogs. Wereboars. The seventh was centered around a circular labyrinth and a street of masses of ogres. The eighth through tenth levels were caves and caverns featuring Trolls, giant insects and a transporter nexus with an evil Wizard with a number of tough associates guarding it. Liste de modules DD ADD 1ere Edition Dragonlance N TSR Code Titre Module PDF Copie DL2 Drachen der Flammen DL1 Drachen der Verzweiflung DL5 Drachengeheimnisses. TSR 9534 ADD A Heros Tale 110 1996 29. TSR 9039 A1 ADD Slave Pits of the Undercity 47 1980 5. TSR 9167 A14 ADD Scourge of the Slave Lords 7. The eleventh level was the home of the most powerful wizard in the castle He had Balrogs as servants. The remainder of the level was populated by Martian White Apes, except the sub passage system underneath the corridors which was full of poisonous critters with no treasure. Level twelve was filled with Dragons. The bottom level, number thirteen, contained an inescapable slide which took the players clear through to China, from whence they had to return via Outdoor Adventure. It was quite possible to journey downward by an insidious series of slanting passages which began on the second level, but the likelihood of following such a route unknowingly didnt become too great until the seventh or eighth level. Side levels included a barracks with Orcs, Hobgoblins, and Gnolls continually warring with each other, a museum, a huge arena, an underground lake, a Giants home, and a garden of fungi. Anyone who made it to the bottom level alive met Zagyg, the insane architect of the dungeons. Zagyg is a reverse homophone of Gygax, and it was Gygaxs inside joke that the person who had designed the dungeonhimselfmust be insane. Only three players ever made it to the bottom level and met Zagyg, all of them during solo adventures Rob Kuntz playing Robilar, Gygaxs son Ernie playing Tenser, and Robs brother Terry playing Terik. Their reward was to be instantly transported to the far side of the world,3. Greyhawk. Terik and Tenser managed to catch up to Robilar along the way, and the three journeyed back to Greyhawk together. By this time, over twenty players crowded Gygaxs basement almost every night,3. Gygaxs spare time. He had been very impressed with Rob Kuntzs imaginative play as a player, and appointed Rob to be co Dungeon Master of Greyhawk.