City of Greyhawk Boxed Set PDF and the Age of Worms

[Herremann the Wise]

Hello Everyone,

I'm currently organising an Age of Worms campaign in the Greyhawk setting for our group. I've never done anything specific with Greyhawk before so I've been purchasing a variety of pdfs to help flesh out the area.

City of Greyhawk Boxed Set
In short, has the City of Greyhawk Boxed Set been released in PDF yet anywhere? From my searching, I cannot find it anywhere where as pretty much everything else seems to be available. Is there a reason for this? Erik Mona mentions that it can be purchased online through a number of officially licensed retailers but I cannot find it anywhere.

On the Age of Worms
The one thing that I really wanted to do with this is flesh out the local area a little bit more. It's one thing to have names of local villages and townships nearby, but it's another thing altogether to have the solid presentation of an actual map of the area. I can thoroughly recommend the Doomgrinder module for its fantastic map of the Cairn Hills area for those like me who "need a map" to work with.

The group I DM get right into the roleplaying and tend to be free spirits when it comes down to what they do. As such I have been digging up a huge array of sources. Unfortunately, the boxed set seems to be the last piece of the puzzle.

By the way, if people have any advice in regards to the Greyhawk Setting (in particular the Free City of Greyhawk or the Cairn Hills) or anything regarding the Age of Worms Adventure Path, feel free to comment or advise.

Best Regards
Herremann the Wise

 

[Voadam]

www.rpgnow.com has all the for sale TSR ESDs, but I don't see it for sale there.

I know the ESD program got cut at the end before they could finish converting every product TSR put out.

Which is a real shame.

 

[Patman21967]

Harremann,
I too am running AoW. I bought Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins. It has a fantastic map of the area, and details the city very well.

Pat

 

[Alzrius]

Herremann, have you checked out the Age of Worms Overload? It has a lot of great resources, including some modifications you can make to the Adventure Path so it's more Greyhawk-specific.

 

[grodog]

The City of Greyhawk box set was never converted to ESD

In addition to those resources mentioned above, there are some other good CoG books/sites out there, too, including:

• Maldin's Greyhawk City poster map (from Living Greyhawk Journal #2), and the accompanying, unpublished City Sewers Map: http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/cogh.html
• The LGJ also published several articles about the City, beginning in issue 2, up through issue 5 or so, and then some may have reappeared somewhere toward the end of the run, too; the LGJ index on Canonfire! should help you out: http://www.canonfire.com/cfhtml/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3
• Chris Siren's Gord the Rogue site, based on Gygax's novels which are largely based in Greyhawk City: http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/gordmain.html
• The other adventures outlined in The Adventure Begins are centered around Greyhawk City, too, as are several other articles from LGJ (in particular the Hardby and Bright Desert articles, which speak to other, local powers)
• WG5/Maure Castle (Dungeon 112 and 124) are both in the area.
• Gygax's new Castle Zagyg series from TLG may also be of interest---the first book presents the town of Yggsburgh and its surrounding environs, and will be followed up by Castle Zagyg proper, the grand-daddy of all dungeons

I hope that helps?

 

[grodog]

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[diaglo]

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well for nearby stuff... the whole Lost Tombs series...

Doomgrinder by Steve Miller (1998)
Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad by SKR (1998)
The Star Cairns by SKR (1998)
plus the 1edADnD ones: C1 and C2

and the Falcon series set in the City:

WGA1 , 2, 3

Falcon's Revenge, Falconmaster, Flames of the Falcon

and Greyhawk Ruins (1991)

other material try:

Greyhawk Folio (1980)
World of Greyhawk (1983)
Greyhawk Wars (1991)
Greyhawk Adventures by James Ward (1988)
Players' Guide (1998)
Return of the Eight (1998)
From the Ashes (1992)
City of Greyhawk (1989)
The Adventure Begins (1998) by Roger Moore

 

[Maldin]

• Maldin's Greyhawk City poster map (from Living Greyhawk Journal #2), and the accompanying, unpublished City Sewers Map: http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/cogh.html

Thanks for the plug, grodog. I would also like to point people interested in Erik's Wormfood articles in Dragon that there is a "web expansion" of my shop, Maldin and Elenderi's Shop of the Arcane, first described by myself in LGJ#2 and described again by Erik in the last Dragon Magazine (#337), along with an interior map of the "showroom" for DMs to show to players, on my website at http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/maldins.html There is also a description of Eridok's equipment shop (also described in the LGJ#2, and subsequently used in several RPGA LG mods) as well, at http://melkot.com/locations/cogh/eridok.html
Check back again soon, as there will be more City of Greyhawk goodness added within the next week, including a full index of my LGJ#2 CoG map.
While you're in the neighborhood, check out my clickable site map for loads of other non-CoG Greyhawk goodies that can easily be adapted to non-Greyhawk use.

Denis, aka "Maldin"
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Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
Check out the ton of cool Edition-independent stuff on my website:
New Spells, Magic Items, Campaign Notoriety, Artifacts, Kyuss, secrets of the Twin Cataclysms, the Codex of the Infinite Planes, the Dreadwood, the cities of Melkot, Greyhawk and Irongate, a Unified Theory for all of D&D and its multiverse, and much, much more!!

 

[Sturtevant]

Sweet map, dude!!! Thanks!
I especially like your history of Kyuss on your website. I'm certainly gonna use it in my Wormy campaign. I disagree about the deification thing though. I think Kyuss makes a great god of creepy undeath.

Sturt

 

[Steel_Wind]

Thanks for the plug, grodog.

Thanks very much for the update and for the resources you continue to provide Denis.

I've been gaming for nearly 27 years now. While I played in Greyhawk in the 70's and early 80s - I never ran it, until now.

I decided I would do so with the AoW. A few months ago I came across your site. I then bought all of the LGJ's on ebay - including the coveted Map of the City (Issues #0 to #5 cost me a pretty penny let me tell you) but the resources your site has provided to me are HUGELY appreciated.

Big Thumbs up!