Paul Farquhar
Legend
That was standard practice. When TSR published a module they added a few lines suggesting a Greyhawk location for it, but unless it was actually written by Gygax it wasn't intentionally written with Greyhawk in mind.
For some reason this was very popular in the UK.one example would be City State of the Invincible Overlord.
Well, I only have experiential evidence for that, no sales figures or anything. It could have been simply a consequence of very few outlets selling D&D, or maybe it's cynicism appealed. But it is the only "campaign setting" that I saw used in those early days. Not that it was used as much as homebrew (my world was imaginatively called Erf!) or simply sitting down and playing a module as a one-off without any references to setting.I did not know that! My knowledge of UK gaming of the era, outside of Fiend Folio, the UK modules, and Warhammer FRPG is pretty pretty limited.
And not just any ordeal. Tiddlywinks, the worst of the bunch.Trial by ordeal.