Erik Mona's Greyhawk

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Erik Mona's Greyhawk is my name for the variant of the Greyhawk campaign setting which I use in my games. It is defined by the Core Dungeons & Dragons books (Players Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual) as expanded and/or modified by the various boxed-sets relating to Greyhawk from TSR (out of print), the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (out of print), the various issues of the Oerth Journal[1], the Adventure Paths that Erik Mona has edited, and the various Greyhawk-related works for Wizards of the Coast that Erik Mona has contributed to including the Fiendish Codex I: Horrors of the Abyss.

Various other materials are also used (such as Dragon Magazine articles about Greyhawk and just about any other Greyhawk-specific resource published by Wizards of the Coast / TSR), but the above items are the primary canon for the adventures that I run.

Why Erik Mona?

Erik has been instrumental in the resurgence of Greyhawk, and using his name makes it clear that I am talking about the modern, quasi-canon version of the setting rather than the pre-3.0 Wizards verison or the older TSR versions.

Adventure Paths

The Adventure Paths (such as the Shackled City Adventure Path) are living, breathing Greyhawk history. Each of them is carefully setting-agnostic in many ways, but is primarily set in Greyhawk, using classic locations such as Diamond Lake and Sasserine as well as beings such as Dragotha and Demogorgon.

See also: Concerns about the adventure paths

Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk

First announced at a Wizards of the Coast presentation given at GenCon in 2006, the line of "Expedition to..." books include Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk, a module and setting book which follows and ties in to the events of the last decade in Greyhawk, and forges forward in telling the tales of many of the best-known Greyhawk characters including Mordenkainen, Zagig (in name, only), Robilar, Riggby (who has died of natural causes), Iuz, and many other players from the Greyhawk setting. I'll be writing a full review for this book on AJS Reviews when I get a chance, but it's clearly a major step forward for the setting, being the only official Greyhawk publication outside of the (now canceled) magazines in many years. If you want to browse through some of its content, check out the preview page on the Wizards of the Coast site.