grodog
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If you're looking for one-stop shopping, I really do think it depends on what you want to do with the setting.
If you want a loose outline, then the folio/1983 box sets will do fine, as could Sargent's FTA if you want darker (just don't leverage all the rest of the other regional supplements: not that they're not some of the best GH writing published, but that they do fill in a lot of details). If you're looking for more depth to the setting/history without being overly comprehensive, but with revisionist-canonist bents, then Moore's tAB and the LGG are your better bets; I like tAB a lot---it crams a bunch into the book, but also fills in other holes/details (as did the various GH98 adventures), whereas the LGG deliberately expands the adventure hooks (I think in reaction to the various seeds from FTA being designed as part of GH98). Both are good books.
For maps, you'll want either the original Darlene maps from 1980/1983/1990 (in FTA), or you should buy the Dungeon maps in issues 118-121 @ http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/issues/greyhawkmap You could also do far worse than to use the maps by Eric Anodson or Anna Bernemalm (see Canonfire! or www.ghmaps.net respectively), although neither comprehensively covers the Flannaess as yet.
Actually, most of the "Events in the WoG" articles were not incorporated into the 1983 boxed set, just the original run of "D&DG of the WoG" from Dragons 67-71 was; the Suel gods run in the 80s appeared after the box set, too. And the PC castles/followers/armies details about Mordy, Robilar, et al, in Dragon 37 weren't reprinted either.
If you like that stuff, your best bet is to use the folio/1983 box/FTA, and the Dragon Archive
If you want a loose outline, then the folio/1983 box sets will do fine, as could Sargent's FTA if you want darker (just don't leverage all the rest of the other regional supplements: not that they're not some of the best GH writing published, but that they do fill in a lot of details). If you're looking for more depth to the setting/history without being overly comprehensive, but with revisionist-canonist bents, then Moore's tAB and the LGG are your better bets; I like tAB a lot---it crams a bunch into the book, but also fills in other holes/details (as did the various GH98 adventures), whereas the LGG deliberately expands the adventure hooks (I think in reaction to the various seeds from FTA being designed as part of GH98). Both are good books.
For maps, you'll want either the original Darlene maps from 1980/1983/1990 (in FTA), or you should buy the Dungeon maps in issues 118-121 @ http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/issues/greyhawkmap You could also do far worse than to use the maps by Eric Anodson or Anna Bernemalm (see Canonfire! or www.ghmaps.net respectively), although neither comprehensively covers the Flannaess as yet.
Actually, most of the "Events in the WoG" articles were not incorporated into the 1983 boxed set, just the original run of "D&DG of the WoG" from Dragons 67-71 was; the Suel gods run in the 80s appeared after the box set, too. And the PC castles/followers/armies details about Mordy, Robilar, et al, in Dragon 37 weren't reprinted either.
If you like that stuff, your best bet is to use the folio/1983 box/FTA, and the Dragon Archive
