Portal:Sourcebooks

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Welcome to the Sourcebook Portal! Here, you'll find links to many of the articles about various official and apocryphal sources on the Great Library of Greyhawk wiki.
Sources — There's a lot of sources throughout all the editions of D&D. These categories and portals will help you find information you're looking for! For ease of use, many of the sources have an "abbreviation code" by which they're commonly known in the GH community. You can lookup what the names and codes are for each adventure, sourcebook, novel, or magazine on the List of source abbreviations and codes. The infobox on each article about a source will also have the abbreviation codes for that source. • See Also: Novels
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Below, you will find a listing of all the major World of Greyhawk™ setting books.

First edition

World of Greyhawk folio (1980)

• 32-page pamphlet inside a folder, with the heraldry of the Flanaess on the covers.
• 2 posters, comprising a 34" by 44" (86 cm by 112 cm) map

World of Greyhawk Boxed Set (1983)

Contents:

• Guide to the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting—"A Catalogue of the Land of the Flanaess"
• Glossography—For the Guide to the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting
• 2 - 22" x 34" maps each displaying half of Eastern Oerik

Greyhawk Adventures (1988)

128-page hardcover

• Deities and Clerics of Greyhawk
• Monsters of Greyhawk
• Hall of Heroes
• Magical Spells
• Magical Items of Greyhawk
• Geography of Oerth
• Adventures in Greyhawk

- Appendix 1 - Zero-Level Characters

- Appendix 2 - Greyhawk Spell List

Second edition

The City of Greyhawk boxed set (1989)

Contents:

• Greyhawk: Gem of the Flanaess - 'A gazetteer of the Free City of Greyhawk and the surrounding area' 96-page softcover.
• Greyhawk: Folk, Feuds, and Factions - 'The good, the bad, and the in-between: People who make the city what it is' 96-page softcover.
• 3 large fold-out maps of the city & environs, and overhead picture of the city.

- 1043XXX0701 Area map (scale: 1 inch = 8 miles)

- 1043XXX0702 City map

- 1043XXX0703 Sewers / secret passages

- [uncoded] pictoral overhead map

• Two-dozen adventure cards, with mini-adventures set in the city.

"Wars" boxed set (1991)

This boxed set is actually a fantasy board game, set in the World of Greyhawk. The boxed set includes two poster maps, based on the Darlene map, but with the nations separated into game-regions. Most significantly, the Adventurer's Guidebook includes the "official" history of the Greyhawk Wars in the "Course of the War".

From the Ashes boxed set (1992)

Contents:

• Atlas of the Flanaess (96 pages)
• Campaign Book (96 pages)
• 20 cardsheets of encounters and information [First 14 are numbered. Subjects include weather, nation data, map info, symbols of the powers (deities), priest spells, encounter tables, NPCs of Greyhawk. Last 6 cards are encounter set-ups: Brainstorm, Dark Heart of Oak, Honest Bandits, Slavers by Midnight, Tamara Belongs to Me, The Beckoner in the Dark).]
• 5 Monstrous Compendium sheets (Varrangoin, Abyss Bat, Thassaloss, Losel, Lyrannikin (Black Treant), Dwarf (Derro), and Animus)
• 3 color fold-out maps:

- 1064XXX0701 Postwar Flanaess West

- 1064XXX0702 Postwar Flanaess East

- 1064XXX0703 From the Ashes Campaign Map

Player's Guide (1998)

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Flanaess
• The High and Mighty
• The City of Greyhawk

- Includes 2-page line-art map of the city

• Races of Eastern Oerik
• Roleplaying in the Flanaess
• Adventuring Attractions in the Central Flanaess
• Player-Character Kits

- Rangers of the Gnarley Forest

- Knights of the Holy Shielding

- Knights of the Watch

- Knights of the Order of the Hart

- Apprentices at the University of Magical Arts

- Greyhawk Thugs

- Dwurfolk of the Domain

• 11"x16" maps of the Domain of Greyhawk and the Flanaess, both c. 591 CY

The Adventure Begins (1998)

Contents:

• Extensive histories of the Flanaess and the Domain of Greyhawk
• A place-by-place description of the City of Greyhawk
• A 16-page map booklet with new and updated maps of towns and adventuring sites in the central Flanaess
• Updates on famous people - good and bad
• The seeds for thousands of new adventures

Third edition

Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000)

192-page sourcebook:

• Poster map of the Flanaess with deity's holy symbols—the Lazzaretti map (2000) (also called the "LGG map")

Dungeons & Dragons Gazetteer (2000)

32-page booklet containing the basics of the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, intended for quickly introducing new players to the Flanaess

• Small poster map (different than the LGG map above)

Fifth edition

Dungeon Master's Guide (2024)

The DMG 2024 includes a 29-page section detailing the World of Greyhawk™ as an example campaign and as an example for world building. It primarily focuses on the tone and themes of the setting, and on the City of Greyhawk, devoting 9 pages to the city. It gives a further 12 pages to the broader Flanaess, including tables with a brief (one-line) description of nations separated into five broad regions. The chapter describes each region's culture, political situation, themes, and possible adventures.

It also includes two poster maps, and one full-page interior map:

• Poster map of the Flanaess —the Schley map (art by Mike Schley)
• Poster map of the City of Greyhawk—the Baerald map (art by Francesca Baerald)
• Full-page map of the City of Greyhawk and Environs—the Schley Domain of Greyhawk map (art by Mike Schley).