Greyhawk Locations

by Denis Tetreault
Version 1.1

The City of Greyhawk is without a doubt the location that defines the World of Greyhawk. The "Gem of the Flanaess", it is the world's largest metropolis, and is a major trading center, political center, learning center, and adventuring center. Here you can see what the 2-by-3-foot poster map I created for the RPGA's Living Greyhawk Campaign looks like. Also, there is an all-new map of the undercity of Greyhawk, and descriptions of new areas. For those of you with a slow connection, I must warn you ahead of time that the page contains two images just over 500k in size, so the page may take a while to load! Also, because of the javascript (make sure it is enabled on your browser!), the images will not appear until AFTER the files are finished downloading, so if nothing seems to appear, wait until your browser completes the page download before panicking! When all works properly, location names will pop up when you hover over areas marked by red dots. If all of the hot spots do not work the first time, reload the page (which should only reload the html, and not the large graphics) and it should work fine. There are instructions at the bottom of the page for downloading the html, java and images if you would like to set up the pop-up-labelled map on your own computer. If you have problems downloading the maps, you can access them directly from here: City of Greyhawk map, Undercity of Greyhawk map.

The most detailed area of my home campaign is the City of Melkot, an original city located at hex G5-132 on the large World of Greyhawk maps from the original Folio and Boxed set. Located between the Tors, the Hool Marshes and a spur of the Hellfurnaces, it is a free and independent city built on the profits of gem mining, and the location of an immense castle. You will now find Melkot appearing on new maps of the World of Greyhawk published in products beginning with the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer in 2000. Yes, this is the Melkot.

An area not far from Melkot, and home to several of my players' PCs, is the Dreadwood Forest. Here you find a little general information about the region, and an adventure-ready, detailed description of an ancient site deep within the remotest part of the Dreadwood, where it all but gives way to the Hool Marshes.

The Southern Yatils are the location of two of the best known 1st Edition adventures in the world of Greyhawk... S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and its sequel WG4 The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun. Greyhawk DMs should not be surprised to know that inconsistencies between the module maps and the World of Greyhawk wall maps make the exact placement of these adventures quite problematical. Here you'll find a map with suggested locations.

Begun originally as a webproject by Gary Holian, Erik Mona and myself, the Irongate Project seeks to develop the City of Irongate as a detail adventure setting. The project has taken several twists and turns since then, and parts continue to be developed as a future article(s) for Dungeon Magazine, but here at the official Project webpage, you can see some of the preliminary maps. I have also added some of my own original information I developed for Irongate, including the geology of the region, as well as other details.

The newest section of my website will explore Greyhawk's Underdark. For now, there is information (and a map) about a large cavern some distance away from the Vault of the Drow that is home to the free city of Khor, however this section will expand over time to include more maps and new areas for adventure.

Maps of Mystery do not represent any particular place, but rather are more versatile maps that DM's can use anywhere they wish in their campaigns.

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This page last modified on February 10, 2008