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grodog's Castle Greyhawk Archive:
Sources and Research Items
Introduction
Just how many levels do we know existed in Gygax's
version of Greyhawk Castle? How about Kuntz's El
Raja Key? How did Castle Greyhawk change after the two dungeons
were combined into one?
Researching the development of Castle
Greyhawk and
El Raja Key from the original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn
campaigns of Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz has sometimes been compared
to studying the Khabbala, and the comparison is not unapt.
Past and Current Publication Efforts
The history of the development of D&D and of Castle Greyhawk (which
grew together hand-in-hand), has been well-chronicled in several sources,
in particular articles published throughout the span of The Strategic
Review, The Dragon, and Dragon Magazine.
To read up on many of the earliest sources for
Castle Greyhawk means that a Greyhawk fan needs to track down and collect
various obscure wargmaing magazines, fanzines, and newsletters, since
that's where the earliest D&D market was, and where TSR expended it's
marketing efforts.
Greyhawk Castle Content Sources and Publishing
History -
Chronological
Listing
Greyhawk Sources in Magazines and other non-TSR
Publications
- Gary Gygax - "Battle for the
Brown Hills" in Wargamer's Newsletter #116 (November 1971)
- Gary Gygax - "The Giant's Bag" in Great Plains Game
Players Newsletter #7 (April 1974)
- Gary Gygax - "Swords and Sorcery - In Wargaming" in Wargamer's
Digest (Volume 1, Number 7; McCoy Publishing Enterprises,
May 1974)
- Gary Gygax - "How
To Set Up Your Dungeons & Dragons Campaign
- And Be Stuck Refereeing It Seven Days Per Week Until The Wee Hours
Of The
Morning!" in Europa
#6-8 (April
1975); this entire issue is available for download at http://www.whiningkentpigs.com/DW/oldzines/europa6-8.pdf
- Gary Gygax - "Dungeons & Dragons
- The Magician's Ring" in Wargamer's Digest (Volume 2, Number 8; McCoy Publishing
Enterprises, June 1975)
- Gary Gygax - "Letter to Lee
Gold" in Alarums and Excursions #2 ( July 1975)
- Gary Gygax - "The
Expedition Into the Black Reservoir; a Dungeon Adventure at Greyhawk
Castle" (El Conquistador [a Diplomacy
fanzine]: Viking Systems, September 1975); the full text of "The Expedition
to the Black Reservoir" is hosted on my site with permission, through
the kind graces of Gary Gygax
- Gary Gygax - "(Unknown Title: Mellard Plict Story)" in (Unknown
Magazine) @ (Unknown Date); per conversation with Erik Mona after WorldCon
2009 in San Jose, this probably doesn't exist
- Gary Gygax - "Sanctum
of the Savant" column in Realms of Adventure newsletter
#1 (Volume 1, Number 1; New Infinities Productions: Summer 1988)
- Gary Gygax - "To Forge a Fantasy World:
Greyhawk's Creation" in Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Essays
on Roleplaying (Jolly Roger Games, 2000)
- Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz's Up
on a Soapbox columns written for Dragon
Magazine from September 2001 through June 2004: distilled summaries
of lore relevant to Castle Greyhawk
- Gary Gygax and Jeff Talanian - Castle
Zagyg: Upper Works (Troll Lord Games, 2008); boxed set
- Rob Kuntz -
"D&D Past Present and
Future" in Wargaming #1 (Fantasy Games Unlimited:
July/August 1978)
- Rob Kuntz -
"3 Artifacts of the Demon
Senders" in Wargaming #2 (Fantasy Games Unlimited: September/October
1978)
- Rob Kutnz - Bottle City (Pied Piper Publishing, 2007; reprinted by Black Blade Publishing, 2014)
- Rob Kutnz - "The Living Room" (Pied Piper Publishing 2008)
- Rob Kuntz - El Raja Key Archive (Three Line Studio and TLB Games, 2016)
- Strategic Review, The Dragon, and Dragon Magazine
Greyhawk Sources in OD&D, AD&D, and Other TSR Publications
Contemporary Greyhawk Sources
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