Editing Greyhawk (section)

===Between editions (1980–1983)===
Before the folio edition was released, Gygax planned to publish supplementary information, using his column "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" that appeared on a semi-regular basis in TSR's ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon Magazine]]''.

In the May 1980 issue,<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = From the Sorcerer's Scroll: Greyhawk - The Shape of the World | journal = Dragon | volume = IV, No. 11 | issue = 37 | pages = 10–11, 30 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=May 1980}}</ref> Gygax gave a quick overview of the development of his new ''The World of Greyhawk'' folio. For players who planned to use large scale army tactics, he gave details of the private armies that were commanded by some prominent Greyhawk characters from his original home game: [[Bigby (Greyhawk)|Bigby]], [[Mordenkainen]], [[Robilar]], [[Tenser]] and [[Erac's Cousin]]. Gygax also mentioned some of the planned Greyhawk publications he was overseeing: a large-scale map of the city of Greyhawk; some adventure modules set in Greyhawk; a supplementary map of lands outside the Flanaess; all fifty levels of Castle Greyhawk's dungeon; and miniatures army combat rules. None of these projects, other than a few of the adventure modules, were published by TSR.

Although Gygax originally intended to immediately publish more details of Greyhawk in ''Dragon'' on a regular basis, other projects intervened, and it was not until the August 1981 issue of ''Dragon'' that [[Len Lakofka]], in his column "Leomund's Tiny Hut", outlined methods for determining a character's place of birth and languages spoken. Gygax added an addendum concerning the physical appearances of the main Greyhawk races.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Lakofka | first1 = Len | last2 = Gygax | first2 = Gary | author-link = Len Lakofka | author-link2 = Gary Gygax | title = Leomund's Tiny Hut: Adding Depth to the Flanaess | journal = Dragon | volume = VI, No. 2 | issue = 52 | pages = 18–24 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date = August 1981}}</ref> In the November 1981 issue, Gygax gave further details of racial characteristics and modes of dress.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = From the Sorcerer'Scroll: More "Meat" for Greyhawk | journal = Dragon | volume = VI, No. 5 | issue = 55 | pages = 17–19 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=November 1981}}</ref>

In the December 1982 issue, David Axler contributed a system for determining weather in the world of Greyhawk.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Axler | first = David | title = Weather in the World of Greyhawk: A Climate for realistic AD&D adventuring, adaptable for use in your world | journal = Dragon | volume = VIII, No. 7 | issue = 68 | pages = 42–53 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=December 1982}}</ref> Gygax later said he thought a system of fourteen charts for determining the weather was too cumbersome, and he personally did not use it in his home campaign.<ref>Gygax: "I must accept the blame, of course, as I okayed the material. Of course, being a DM who always flew by the seat of his pants, I never used [the tables]... When I was running a game the weather was what I said it was". {{cite web | title = Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part V, Page 15) | publisher = EN World | date = 2005-01-06 | url = http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76849&page=5&pp=15 | access-date = 2009-03-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050118005802/http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76849 | archive-date = 2005-01-18 | url-status = dead}}</ref>

====More information about every political region====
The folio edition had thirty two pages, and information about each region was condensed into a short paragraph or two. Gygax realized that some players needed more in-depth information about the motivations and aspirations of each region, and the history of interactions with surrounding regions. With this in mind, Gygax decided to publish a much longer description of each region in ''Dragon''. The first two articles, covering seventeen regions, appeared in the December 1981 and January 1982 issues.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = From the Sorcerer'Scroll: More "Meat" for Greyhawk | journal = Dragon | volume = VI, No. 6 | issue = 56 | pages = 17–19 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=December 1981}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = From the Sorcerer'Scroll: More "Meat" for Greyhawk | journal = Dragon | volume = VI, No. 7 | issue = 57 | pages = 13–16 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=January 1982}}</ref> Due to his involvement in many other TSR projects, Gygax handed responsibility for completion of this project to Rob Kuntz, who covered the remaining forty three regions in the March, July and September 1982 issues.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Kuntz | first = Rob | author-link = Robert J. Kuntz | title = Greyhawk's World - News, Notes and Views of the Greyhawk World: Events of the Eastern and Southern Flanaess | journal = Dragon | volume = VII, No. 1 | issue = 63 | pages = 14–17 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=July 1982}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Kuntz | first = Rob | author-link = Robert J. Kuntz | title = Greyhawk's World - News, Notes and Views of the Greyhawk World: Events of the Eastern and Southern Flanaess | journal = Dragon | volume = VII, No. 4 | issue = 65 | pages = 11–12 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date = September 1982}}</ref>

====Deities of Greyhawk====
{{Main|Greyhawk deities}}
In the August 1982 issue of ''Dragon'', Gygax gave advice on how to adapt deities from the previously published ''[[Deities and Demigods]]''<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Ward | first1 = James M. | author-link = Jim Ward (game designer) | last2 = Kuntz | first2 = Robert J. | author2-link = Robert J. Kuntz | title = Deities and Demigods | place = Lake Geneva WI | publisher = TSR | year = 1980 | isbn = 0-935696-22-9}}</ref> for worship by non-human races in the Greyhawk world.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = Greyhawk's World - News, Notes and Views of the Greyhawk World: Events of the Eastern and Southern Flanaess | journal = Dragon | volume = VII, No. 3 | issue = 64 | page = 13 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date = August 1982}}</ref> A few months later, he published a five-part series of articles in the November 1982 through March 1983 issues of ''Dragon'' that outlined a pantheon of deities custom-made for humans in the world of Greyhawk. In addition to his original Greyhawk deities, St. Cuthbert and Pholtus, Gygax added seventeen more deities. Although later versions of the campaign setting would assign most of these deities to worship by specific races of humans, at this time they were generally worshiped by all humans of the Flanaess.

Shortly after the release of the folio edition, TSR released the adventure module C1 ''The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan'', designed to familiarize players with the [[Olman]] race of the [[Amedio Jungle]]. Largely based on [[Aztec]] and [[Incan]] cultures, this adventure introduced the first published deities of the Greyhawk campaign: [[Mictlantecuhtli]], god of death, darkness, murder and the underworld; [[Tezcatlipoca]], god of sun, moon, night, scheming, betrayals and lightning; and [[Quetzalcoatl]], god of air, birds and snakes. This area was further explored in ''[[The Scarlet Brotherhood]]'' (1999), which expanded the Olman pantheon, and newly introduced the [[Touv]] people, including their nine gods.

====Non-player characters of Greyhawk====
{{main|List of Greyhawk characters}}
Also included in the March 1983 issue of ''Dragon'' was an article detailing four unique Greyhawk characters. The first two ''quasi-deities''—[[Heward]] and Keoghtom—had been created by Gygax as [[non-player character]]s (NPCs). The third, [[Murlynd]], was a character that had been created by Gygax's childhood friend [[Don Kaye]] before Kaye's untimely death in 1975. The fourth, a ''hero-deity'' named [[Kelanen]], was developed to illustrate the "principle of advancement of power".<ref>{{cite journal | last = Gygax | first = Gary | author-link = Gary Gygax | title = Greyhawk's World: Four Uncharacteristic Characters | journal = Dragon | volume = VII, No. 9 | issue = 71 | pages = 19–22 | publisher = TSR | location = Lake Geneva WI | date=March 1983}}</ref>

====TSR Greyhawk adventures published after the folio edition====
Of the ten adventures set in Greyhawk published by TSR before the folio edition, all but one had been written by Gygax. However, the new availability of information about Gygax's campaign world and TSR's desire to make it central to ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' encouraged many new writers to set their adventures in Greyhawk. This, combined with the fact that Gygax was increasingly involved in other areas of the company, meant that of the seventeen Greyhawk adventures published in the two years after the folio edition, only four were written or co-written by Gygax:
* [[Expedition to the Barrier Peaks|S3 ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'']] (Gary Gygax, 1980)
* [[Slave Pits of the Undercity|A1 ''Slave Pits of the Undercity'']] (David Cook, 1980)
* [[Secret of the Slavers Stockade|A2 ''Secret of the Slavers' Stockade'']] ( Harold Johnson & Tom Moldvay, 1981)
* [[Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords|A3 ''Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords'']] (Allen Hammack, 1981 )
* [[In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords|A4 ''In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords'']] (Lawrence Schick, 1981)
* [[Queen of the Demonweb Pits|Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits'']] (David C. Sutherland III & Gary Gygax, 1980)<ref name="Dragon #143"/>
* [[The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan|C1 ''The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan'']] (Harold Johnson & Jeff R. Leason, 1980)
* [[The Ghost Tower of Inverness|C2 ''The Ghost Tower of Inverness'']] (Allen Hammack, 1980)
* [[Dwellers of the Forbidden City|I1 ''Dwellers of the Forbidden City'']] (David Cook, 1981)
* [[The Secret of Bone Hill|L1 ''The Secret of Bone Hill'']] (Lenard Lakofka, 1981)
* [[Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh|U1 ''Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh'']] ([[Dave J. Browne|Dave Browne]] & [[Don Turnbull (game designer)|Don Turnbull]], 1981)
* [[Danger at Dunwater|U2 ''Danger at Dunwater'']] (Dave Browne & Don Turnbull, 1982)
* [[Against the Cult of the Reptile God|N1 ''Against the Cult of the Reptile God'']] (Douglas Niles, 1982)
* [[The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun|WG4 ''The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun'']] (Gary Gygax, 1982)
* [[Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth|S4 ''Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth'']] (Gary Gygax, 1982) Originally published as ''Lost Caverns of Tsojconth '' in 1976
* [[The Final Enemy|U3 ''The Final Enemy'']] (Dave Browne & Don Turnbull, 1983)
* [[The Assassin's Knot|L2 ''The Assassin's Knot'']] (Lenard Lakofka, 1983)

In 1981, TSR also published the ''super-modules'' [[Descent into the Depths of the Earth|D1-2 ''Descent into the Depths of the Earth'']] and [[Against the Giants|G1-2-3 ''Against the Giants'']], both being compilations of previously published modules from the ''[[Drow (Dungeons & Dragons)|Drow]]'' series and the ''Giant'' series respectively.

Numerous projects were planned to add more depth and detail to the setting after the publication of the initial folio, but many of these projects never appeared for various reasons.<ref name="Dragon #143"/>