Do the timelines of greyhawk modules directly corespond to years that they came out? For instance, did the Age of Worms campaign go from 595 to 596? Classic modules seem to have their own set "dates" for when the occured, such as Temple of Elemental Evil taking place in 579 cy. Anyone got any answers for me?
Director of Narrative
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Though I am no expert, I would assume that the the parts of Greyhawk that leak out onto the pages of Dungeon and Dragon are current to the timeline unless otherwise noted. I am not certain that an adventure set too far in the past would be accepted unless it was by an established GH author.
Yet since the most of the adventures published do not delve too far into the politics of the world and it is mainly GH in geography and religion, only a small amount of adaptation would be needed to place them in any timeline.
Actually, this question goes beyond mere dungeon magazine articles obviously, since I basically want to know if the CY in Greyhawk coresponds with our years. Was 591 supposed to be 2001?
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Creative Director
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Yeah; that's pretty much the way it works. Although technically, you can pretty much run the Adventure Paths at any time; the only reason inside the campaign for advancing the years is because they occur in chronological order; certain events in previous Adventure Paths set up encounters and events in later ones.
Yes, IIRC, it was said somewhere that real year minus 1410 gives the GH common year. This should hold up even for the oldest publications.
So, WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun from 1982 would be set in 572 CY, and the 1983 WoG box was set in 573, IIRC.
Stefan