598 CY
| World of Greyhawk Timeline • Common Era • Age of Great Sorrow | ||||||||||
| 593 | 594 | 595 | 596 | 597 | 598 CY | 599 | 600 | 601 | 602 | 603 |
| In other reckonings: 1018 SE • 1242 OR • 1402 OL • 2006 TC • 2748 FT • 3257 BH • 5060 OC • 6113 SD | ||||||||||
Events
In this year[edit timeline]
- A major festival year, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Free City of Greyhawk's declaration of independence and freedom. The Lord Mayor's advisors are concerned of an attack by evil cults or individuals. (TAB p.64; The Griffon's Nest)
- Those fears come true when Turin Deathstalker murders Lord Mayor Nerof Gasgal during the Centennial Celebration. In total, there were five deaths of Directing Oligarchs during the Centennial Celebrations. (Greyhawk Grumbler #3)
- In Spring, druids of the Old Faith arrive to tend to the StoneRing outside of the Free City of Greyhawk. (The StoneRing of Greyhawk)
Around this year[edit timeline]
Publications
In 2008 the primary means of publishing Greyhawk material was online—on the Wizards.com website or through the RPGA Living Greyhawk campaign. The Greyhawk Grumbler, for example, came out in 2008 (598 CY).
The last third edition hardback sourcebooks and adventures were in 2007, as well as the print Dungeon and Dragon magazines, and fourth edition began in 2008. Later products which referenced Greyhawk, such as Tales from the Yawning Portal or Ghosts of Saltmarsh (2019), either did not specify a year or did not advance the timeline.
In Living Greyhawk
 | This section contains content from the Living Greyhawk organized-play campaign. |
The 598 campaign year began on January 1, 2008 and ended on December 31, 2008. This was the final year of the Living Greyhawk campaign.
Notes
Living Greyhawk content published in 2008 is set in 598 CY.
As was Wizards of the Coast's policy at the time, the Living Greyhawk campaign continuity advanced the timeline to 591 CY for works released in 2001, continuing on a year-for-year basis for all adventures and Wizards.com web articles up to to 598 CY in 2008. This timeline concurrency rule would also be applied in Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), set in 591 CY, and Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk (2007), set in 597 CY CY, explicitly set dates bookending these years.
In several Paizo forum threads, editor Erik Mona asserted that the rule applies in general to all Greyhawk adventures:[1][2][3]
"The default assumption of all Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon ... is that the last digit of the year in which they were published corresponds to the last digit in the Common Year calendar... 59X CY (X= last digit of real world year). So adventures published in 2004, for example, take place in 594 CY."
—Erik Mona (Jul 2007)[3]
Citations
- ↑ Mona, Erik (22 November 2006). Appropriate Year for Greyhawk SCAP (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ Mona, Erik (2 February 2006). What happens before the Greyhawk Wars? (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ a b Mona, Erik (31 July 2007). Campaign Dates for all three APs (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.