Editing Greyhawk (section)

{{short description|Dungeons & Dragons fictional campaign setting}}
{{about|the role-playing game setting|other uses|Greyhawk (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox game
|title = Greyhawk
|image = [[File:WotC Greyhawk.jpg]]
|designer = [[Gary Gygax]]
|publisher = [[TSR, Inc.]]<br />[[Wizards of the Coast]]
|date = 1980
|years = 
|random_chance = [[Dice]] rolling
|playing_time =
|genre = [[Fantasy]]
|system = ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
|web =
|footnotes =
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'''Greyhawk''', also known as the '''World of Greyhawk''', is a fictional world designed as a [[campaign setting]] for the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' [[fantasy]] [[roleplaying game]].<ref name="wog1980">{{cite book | last=Gygax | first=Gary | author-link=Gary Gygax | title=The World of Greyhawk | publisher=[[TSR, Inc.|TSR]] | year=1980 | isbn = 0-935696-23-7}}</ref><ref name="lgg2000">{{cite book | last1=Holian | first1=Gary | author-link=Gary Holian | first2=Erik | last2=Mona | author-link2=Erik Mona | first3=Sean K. | last3=Reynolds | author-link3=Sean K. Reynolds | first4=Frederick | last4=Weining | author-link4=Frederick Weining | title=[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]] | publisher=[[Wizards of the Coast]] | isbn=0-7869-1743-1 | year=2000}}</ref> Although not the first campaign world developed for ''Dungeons & Dragons''—[[Dave Arneson]]'s ''[[Blackmoor (campaign setting)|Blackmoor]]'' campaign predated it by about a year<ref name="blackmoor">{{cite book | title = Playing at the World | last = Peterson | first = Jon | publisher = Unreason Press | year = 2012 | location = San Diego CA | page = 65 | isbn = 978-0615642048}}</ref>—the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972, and after being published it remained associated with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' publications until 2008.

The world itself started as simply a [[dungeon]] under a [[castle]] designed by [[Gary Gygax]] for the amusement of his children and friends, but it was rapidly expanded to include not only a complex multi-layered dungeon environment, but also the nearby city of Greyhawk, and eventually an entire world. In addition to the campaign world, which was published in several editions over twenty years, Greyhawk was also used as the setting for many adventures published in support of the game, as well as for [[RPGA]]'s massively shared ''[[Living Greyhawk]]'' campaign from 2000 to 2008.