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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1850374" data-attributes="member: 11734">There are actually several versions of the setting, so it depends somewhat on what version of Greyhawk's history you're using. I see there as being about three major versions:Original version - from the folio, and later boxed set, published in the 1st edition days. While there's a considerable amount of history associated with the setting, it's mostly covered in old out-of-print adventures and articles in the first 60 or so issues of Dragon; most often this set is a starting point for however a particular DM wanted to flesh things out.Greyhawk Wars/From the Ashes - basically the second edition version, this was an attempt to basically redraw the Greyhawk political map (as a result of a series of wars) and give it a different tone, since the Forgotten Realms had basically taken over as the default setting. A lot of Greyhawk's audience were (and are) split over whether this was a good thing. IMHO, the quality of the various supplements was much higher than average, so even though I didn't like the metaplot I still used a decent amount of this when I played Greyhawk.Living Greyhawk - in third edition, Greyhawk became the default setting for D&D, but WOTC didn't want to run a metaplot. So they only published a couple of supplements, set some years after the "From the Ashes" setting with a few of the major conflicts dialed back to "simmer". Then they basically gave the setting to the RPGA, who publish adventures and run events for their members.EBay is your friend for any older stuff you might want, but for currently published material Living Greyhawk is probably the way to go:<a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/welcome" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/welcome</a>Many of the folks involved in LG are long-time Greyhawk fans, so surfing some of their websites will probably expose you to a lot of older material.</blockquote>

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