Editing Greyhawk (section)

====''The City of Greyhawk'' boxed set====
{{See also|The City of Greyhawk}}
The publication of ''Greyhawk Adventures'' came just as TSR released the [[Editions of Dungeons & Dragons#Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition|2nd edition of ''Dungeons & Dragons'']]. TSR released ''[[The City of Greyhawk]]'' boxed set in 1989 under the ''Greyhawk Adventures'' banner. Written by [[Carl Sargent]] and Rik Rose, this was not the city created by Gygax and Kuntz, but a new plan built from references made in previously-published material.

This release remolded Gary Gygax's old Circle of Eight into a new plot-device. Instead of a group of eight companions based in the Obsidian Citadel who left periodically to fight evil, the Circle became eight wizards led by a ninth wizard, Gygax's former character [[Mordenkainen]]. In addition to Mordenkainen, seven of the wizards were previously existing characters from Gygax's original home game: Bigby, Otiluke, Drawmij, Tenser, Nystul, Otto, and Rary. The eighth was new: the female wizard Jallarzi Sallavarian. The Circle's mandate was to act as neutral referees between Good and Evil, never letting one side or the other gain the upper hand for long. In addition, Sargent and Rose took Gygax's original Obsidian Citadel, re-purposed it as Mordenkainen's castle, and placed it in an unspecified location in the [[Yatil Mountains]].<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Sargent | first1 = Carl | author-link = Carl Sargent | last2 = Rose | first2 = Rik | title = The City of Greyhawk: Folks, Feuds and Factions | place = Lake Geneva WI | publisher = TSR, Inc. | year = 1989 | chapter = 3 | pages = 20–27 | isbn = 0-88038-731-9}}</ref>

The following year, in conjunction with this boxed set, TSR published a trilogy of ''World of Greyhawk'' Adventure (WGA) modules by Richard and Anne Brown - WGA1 ''[[Falcon's Revenge]]'', WGA2 ''[[Falconmaster]]'', and WGA3 ''Flames of the Falcon'' - set in the city, and centered on a mysterious villain called The Falcon. A fourth WGA module, [[Vecna Lives!|WGA4 ''Vecna Lives!'']] by David Cook, was published the same year, and featured the first appearance by [[Vecna]], formerly a mythic [[lich (D&D)|lich]] in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' lore, now promoted to demigod-status.