Editing Greyhawk (section)

====''Living Greyhawk''====
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[[File:Greyhawk Book.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]'' ([[Wizards of the Coast]], 2000), an updated sourcebook for the campaign setting.]]
With the release of the 3rd edition of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', [[RPGA]]—the organized play division of WotC—announced a new massively shared [[living campaign]], ''[[Living Greyhawk]]'', modeled on a 2nd edition campaign called ''Living City''. Although ''[[Ravens Bluff#The Living City|Living City]]'' was relatively successful, RPGA wanted to expand the scope of their new campaign—instead of one city as a setting, the new campaign would involve thirty different regions of Greyhawk, each specifically keyed to a particular country, state, or province of the real world. Each region would produce its own adventures, and in addition to these, RPGA would provide worldwide ''Core'' adventures. To provide the level of detail needed for such a venture, WotC published the ''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]'', the most in-depth examination of the world of Greyhawk ever produced, and the official starting point for not only the campaign, but also for all home campaigns from that point forward.

Concurrent with the release of the 3rd edition ''[[Player's Handbook]]'', ''Living Greyhawk'' debuted at [[Gen Con]] 2000 with three ''Core'' adventures: COR1-1 ''Dragon Scales at Morningtide'', by [[Sean K. Reynolds]]; COR1-2 ''The Reckoning'', by Sean Flaherty and John Richardson; and COR1-3 ''River Of Blood'', by [[Erik Mona]]. WotC also released ''[[The Fright at Tristor]]'' by Keith Polster (2000), designed as an introductory adventure to the Living Greyhawk campaign world.

Unlike previous campaign settings, in which the calendar was frozen at a point chosen by the author, the ''Living Greyhawk'' calendar did advance one year in game time for every calendar year in real time: the campaign started in 591 CY (2001) and ended in 598 CY (2008), at which point over a thousand adventures had been produced for an audience of over ten thousand players.<ref name = tulach>{{cite web | last = Tulach | first = Chris | title = RPGA Report: Evolution of Shared Worlds (Part 4: The 3rd Edition Era) | publisher = Wizards of the Coast | date = 2008-06-20 | url = http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drrep/20080620 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080623070345/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drrep/20080620 | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 23, 2008 | access-date = 2009-01-31}}</ref> During this time, the campaign administrators incorporated most of WotC's new rules into the Greyhawk world, only excising material they felt would unbalance the campaign. In 2005, the administrators incorporated every deity ever mentioned in official Greyhawk material previous to the ''D&D'' 3rd edition, as well as all deities mentioned in the new 3rd edition source books. This tripled the number of deities in the campaign from about seventy to almost two hundred.<ref name=conforti>{{cite book | last = Conforti | first = Steve | title = Living Greyhawk: Official Listing of Deities for Use in the Campaign, Version 2.0 | publisher = [[RPGA]] | date = 2005-03-02 | url = http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060206025339/http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 6, 2006}}</ref>

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the ''Living Greyhawk'' storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers; this material only received a cursory vetting by RPGA campaign administrators, and no review by WotC personnel.