Castle Greyhawk (module)

Castle Greyhawk (module)

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Game designer John D. Ratecliff wrote in an article published on the Wizards of the Coast website:

" Despite being intended in fun, the unrelenting mayhem of Dungeonland and The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror creates a sense of bedlam, and the parody element opened the door for the later WG7, Castle Greyhawk (1988) -- thought by some at the time to be a deliberate attempt by TSR to destroy Gygax’s reputation in the wake of his departure from the company. The truth, especially given the freelance talent involved, is more likely to be that someone thought it a good idea at the time. They were wrong. Castle Greyhawk’s assortment of villains -- Col. Sanders, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the cast of Star Trek, and others -- would be more in keeping with a bad episode of Scooby Doo than a dungeon crawl. Unfortunately, the Castle Greyhawk collection of unconnected parody adventures tainted the mystique of D&D’s original dungeon so badly that not even the astonishingly deadly killer dungeon presented slightly later in WGR1. Greyhawk Ruins (1990) could reclaim its lost prestige." [cite web | url = http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/dx20020121x8| title = EX1-2. Dungeonland and The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror| author=John D. Ratecliff| accessdate = 2008-04-20 |date= Undated | work = ]

Table of Contents

Credits

Editing: Mike Breault with Jon Pickens
Cover Art: Keith Parkinson
Interior Art: Jim Holloway with Jeff Easley
Typography: Kim Janke
Cartography : Stephen Sullivan
Keylining: Stephanie Tabat and Dave S. LaForce

Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributors. Distributed in the United Kingdom by TSR UK Ltd.

product number 9222XXX1401
ISBN 0-088038-530-8

Back cover reads

"Deep beneath the keep of Castle Greyhawk, a really nasty device is creating all of these gross mutated and unpleasant monsters that are running wild throughout the Castle and the 12 level dungeon beneath the Castle. The call has gone out for heroic, fearless, and kind of foolish adventurers to out-hack, out-slash and sometimes even out-think hordes of dough mn, headless mice, manic bee queens, really bad did things, Burgermen, crazed chiefs, and movie moguls. If they survive these and much odder obstacles, the characters still have too fine a nasty monster creator and put it out of business."
"Castle Greyhawk contains 13 detailed levels for adventuring and expiration. Each level is a separate adventure written by a different author and each has its own unique brand of insane and baffling weirdness. Some levels involve solving puzzles and some require good old hacking and slashing the adventures can be played separately are altogether as a grand quest to free Castle Greyhawk from the evil, rotten boards that are plaguing it. The common theme of this dungeon is that no joke is too old is too bad no snhtick is so obvious that it can't be used to confuse and trip up the PCs!"
"13 adventures for characters levels 0 to 25"

Notable nonplayer characters

* Herzog Akitrom
* Poppinfarsh the Dough Golem
* Gingerbread Man
* Inflated Ego
* Miss Gulch
* Ye Secret Tom of Inestimable Knowledges
* Driderman, The Inedible Bulk, Da Ting,
* Captain Kork, Mees Taspark, Bones
* Indiana Gnome
* Prof. Why, Baba Yaga [Citation
last = Moore
first = Roger
author-link = Roger Moore
title = The Dancing Hut
journal = DRAGON magazine #83
volume = VIII, No. 9
pages = 31–52
date = March
year = 1998 ]
* Elfin John
* Hack and Slash
* Captain Cheer Eo
* Marvin Grape
* Aunt Bee
* Tela Vision, Bunny
* Gross Profits, Net Profits, Profits of Doom
* Jak Briddon
* Penny & Fluffy
* Crystal Lite Ooze
* Mordenkainen
* Voyeux

ee also

*List of Dungeons & Dragons modules
*Castle Greyhawk

Footnotes

References

*Breault, Mike, ed. "Castle Greyhawk" (TSR, 1988).

*Mobley, Blake, and Timothy B Brown. "Greyhawk Ruins" (TSR, 1990).

*Moore, Roger E. "" (TSR, 1998).

External links

* [http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/modpages/wg.html World of Greyhawk Series] at the Acaeum
*" [http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=643 Castle Greyhawk] " at Pen-Paper.net
*" [http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/gh/gh-wg7.htm Castle Greyhawk] " at the TSR Archive


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