If you are reading this you probably already know what Greyhawk is. For those who think they know everything there is to know about Greyhawk go here for a minute.
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Greyhawk of course was the original homebrew campaign of Gary Gygax, that goes without saying. From his players sprang such famous character names as Tenser, Robilar and Mordenkainen. The first deities of this campaign were both tongue in cheek personas; 'Pholtus' who refused that any other deities existed and 'St. Cuthburt' known for hitting unbelievers with his cudgel.
In the late 70's Gygax teased people with bits and pieces of his home campaign through published tournament modules like the Tomb of Horrors and Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and in spell names found in the AD&D Players Handbook like Tenser's Floating Disc and Bigby's Interposing Hand. He also inspired Andre Norton's classic novel Quag Keep to be set in the World of Greyhawk, and Gygax even wrote short stories himself with The Gnome Cache published in the very first issues of his new game magazine The Dragon. Most notably however was his D&D rules expansion booklet entitled Supplement I: Greyhawk. Of all the teases this book was greatest for it held little to no information on what Gygax's Greyhawk setting was like. But hey, it did introduce everyone's favorite Greyhawk monster, the Beholder...
