Editing Greyhawk (section)

====Publication====
{{See also|World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting}}
TSR originally intended to publish ''The World of Greyhawk'' (TSR 9025)<ref name=wog1980 /> early in 1979, but it was not released until August 1980.<ref name = dragon46 >"Often promised, but often delayed, ''WORLD OF GREYHAWK'' sometimes appeared destined to never see the light of publication... Soon the summer was fast disappearing, along with most of our expectations, but on a fateful day in early August, the cherished cry was finally raised. THE WORLD OF GREYHAWK had arrived!"{{cite journal | last = Seiken | first = Jeff | title = The Dragon's Augury: The Wait Was Worth It | journal = Dragon | volume = V | issue = 8 | pages = 48–49 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=February 1981}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> ''The World of Greyhawk'' consisted of a 32-page folio (the first edition is often called the ''World of Greyhawk folio'' to distinguish it from later editions) and a 34" x 44" (86&nbsp;cm x 112&nbsp;cm) two-piece color map of the Flanaess. Reviewers were generally impressed, but some remarked on the lack of a pantheon of Greyhawk-specific deities, as well as the lack of any mention of the infamous dungeons of Castle Greyhawk.<ref name=dragon46 />

Game designer [[Jim Bambra]] found the original set "disappointing", because "there is only so much information you can cram into a 32-page booklet, particularly when covering such a large area".<ref name="Dragon #143"/>