Zagyg and the Cheap DM – A Guide to Free Resources for Running a Greyhawk Campaign

So, continuing with our series, can we garner enough free resources from the web, to allow us to run a more or less canonical Greyhawk campaign? Without resorting to piracy or ebay? Hell yes! Thanks to the many dedicated Greyhawk scholars active on the web, we’re set!

Let’s start with some maps!

The Maps Compilation Index at Greyhawk Online is the only link we need. Go there and be prepared to spend a couple of hours, scarfing everything  up! There are certainly other pages with other maps, floating about. But this site has you covered.

Ok, that was easy! Now, what about a Gazetter/Encyclopedia?

This will be easy, too! The Great Library of Greyhawk, a Greyhawk Wiki, will be our main resource, here. The Locations Index page, is a good place to start. The Realms sub-page is here. Here’s the url  for the Greyhawk Deities page.  From there, just follow the links or type something into the search box. The statistics page, estimates that there are 1,254 pages with content on the wiki. Many of the pages I looked at were illustrated as well. Very pleasing! This comprehensive site, has fulfilled our needs, very well!

So, it’s quite early in our quest and we’ve already pretty much accomplished our mission! But, let’s not stop yet. There’s a whole bunch, of really useful resources available. Let’s look at a few!

More Greyhawk!

The Oerth Journal. 25 issues and counting. History, timelines, locations, gods and more.

Grodog’s Greyhawk site. Greyhawk scholarship, for your reading and gaming pleasure!

Canonfire! has some things for you to check out. Be sure to visit their forums.

Maladin’s Greyhawk is another good site. Be sure to check out this page, for the Encyclopedia Subterranica.

Gord’s Greyhawk, contains material derived from the Gord novels by Gary Gygax.

Help from the Blogosphere.

Joe Bloch of Greyhawk Grognard fame, has some great material for us! Including his Castle of the Mad Archmage megadungeon and maps of the City of Greyhawk!

Grendelwulf from Axe & Hammer has some more Greyhawk Goodness, including work on his herculean task, of bringing us a certain Grey City!

Lord of the Green Dragons, has plenty of material of interest, including the Cold Text File WG4 Series by Scottsz.

All right, that one was too easy!

A hearty thanks to all the awesome gamers, who’ve went the extra mile to give us everything we need to run Greyhawk! If you’ll look to the left, my Greyhawk links section will lead you to a even more, awesome Greyhawk material.