{"product_id":"1e-wg7-castle-greyhawk-advanced-dungeons-dragons-ad-d-1st-edition","title":"1e WG7 Castle Greyhawk Advanced Dungeons Dragons AD\u0026D 1st Edition","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e👉🏾 128 Pages! 13 Adventures for Levels 0-25!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e👉🏾\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis SOFTCOVER reprint is an unread copy that is made to order. Any foldout maps (if any) that were included in the original print are separated and bound all together as 8.5 x 11 inch pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Western;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e👉🏼These reprints are made to order. Please allow 1-2 weeks for your order to ship. 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A tracking number will be provided when your order ships.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Western;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e👉🏾All orders are packaged safely in boxes for shipping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e👉🏿\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll books ship for FREE and thus have FREE combined shipping!\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e📧\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePlease get in touch if you want a particular title! TSR, WOTC, R. Talsorian, Space Frontiers and more are available!\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeep beneath the keep of Castle Greyhawk, a really nasty device is creating mutated, unpleasant monsters that are running wild throughout the castle and the twelve-level dungeon beneath. The call has gone out for heroic, fearless, and perhaps foolish adventures to out-hack, out-slash, and sometimes even out-think hordes of doughmen, headless mice, manic bee queens, really bad dead things, burgermen, crazed chefs, and movie moguls. If they survive these and much odder obstacles, the characters still have to find the nasty monster creator and put it out of business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003econtains 13 detailed levels for adventuring and exploration. Each is a separate adventure written by different author and each has its own unique brand of baffling weirdness. Some levels involve solving puzzles and some require good old hacking and slashing. The adventure can be played separately or all together as a grand quest to free Castle Greyhawk from the evil, rotten hordes that are plaguing it. The common theme of this dungeon is that no joke is so old, no pun so bad, and no schtick so obvious that it can't be used to confuse and trip up PCs!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Adventures for Character Levels 0 to 25.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*****\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct History\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWG7:\u003ci\u003e Castle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e (1988) was theoretically the seventh adventure in the World of Greyhawk series and (theoretically) depicted the infamous Castle Greyhawk. It was written by a huge collection of authors and released in January 1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Adventure Anthology.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Though \u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e presents a single dungeon, it's actually an adventure anthology, with each level written by a different designer. The first D\u0026amp;D adventure of this sort was \u003ca\u003eB9: \"Castle Caldwell and Beyond\"\u003c\/a\u003e (1985), but it was a singular experiment at the time. For some reason, TSR suddenly became very fond of anthologies in 1988, with other releases including DL15: \"Mists of Krynn\" (1988) and \u003ca\u003eOP1:\u003ci\u003e Tales of the Outer Planes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e Expanding Greyhawk.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Gygax may have created the Castle Greyhawk dungeons as early as 1972. He promised publication as early as 1980, but only got as far as publishing adventures based on \"demiplanes\" that were connected to Castle Greyhawk. In the end, there were three: \u003ca\u003eEX1: \"Dungeonland\"\u003c\/a\u003e (1983), \u003ca\u003eEX2: \"The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror\"\u003c\/a\u003e (1983), and WG6: \"Isle of the Ape\" (1985).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs for the actual dungeons, Gygax never published them, and this adventure definitely is not Gygax's Castle Greyhawk. In fact, this satirical adventure isn't really a World of Greyhawk adventure, despite its \"WG\" product code. TSR purposefully superseded it just a few years later with WGR1: \"Greyhawk Ruins\" (1990) - a better attempt to match the style of Gygax's dungeons, though that one didn't directly derive from Gygax's campaign either. Ironically the other major Greyhawk project from this time-period - Rose Estes' \"Master Wolf\" series of novels (1987-88) - are also of questionable canonicity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHistorically, \u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e falls between the first two major waves of Greyhawk publication: after the last Gygaxian reprint, S1-4:\u003ci\u003e Realms of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), and before the first serious release by someone other than Gygax, which was \u003ca\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreyhawk Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (1988), by James M. Ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing WG7.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e The Acaeum reports that WG7 should have been an adventure by Gary Gygax and Skip Williams called either \"Shadowland\" or \"Shadowlords.\" Gygax had first announced it way back in \u003ci\u003eThe Dragon #37\u003c\/i\u003e (May 1980), where he wrote, \"Skip Williams is working on my original outline for Shadowland, and from what I’ve seen so far, we should be able to have a final product out this year. The module will be an adventure on the Plane of Shadow - perhaps that should be Quasi-plane of Shadow.\" Years later, Gygax noted that he and Williams had created lots of new monsters for \"Shadowland\" and that he'd outlined an adventure for high-level PCs, 12th and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGygax and Williams were once again working on Shadowland around 1985 when Gygax was forced out of the company. As a result, his version of WG7 appeared in a few TSR product catalogs in 1986 and 1987, but was then cancelled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParody \u0026amp; Humor.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Though it \u003ci\u003ewasn't\u003c\/i\u003e the original Castle Greyhawk, this Castle Greyhawk was enjoyed by some for its parody and its humor, which included references to \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMarvel Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e, the Three Stooges and much more. Some parodies and other D\u0026amp;D humor had appeared in April issues of \u003ci\u003eDragon\u003c\/i\u003e previously, but as a fairly humorous supplement, \u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e was pretty unprecedented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWas This \u003c\/i\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003ci\u003e Produced Out of Spite?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Fans of Gary Gygax and Greyhawk have long contended that this version of Castle Greyhawk was produced specifically to spite Gary Gygax, to mock his creations, and\/or to make Greyhawk and its prime adventure spot look ridiculous. This assertion is questionable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdmittedly, Lorraine Williams might have had spiteful feelings toward Gygax, dating back to his attempt to block Williams' purchase of TSR stock in 1985. After that, she appeared to go out of her way to sue both companies that Gygax later published with: New Infinities Productions and GDW. In fact, the TSR lawsuits against those two companies were some of the prime causes that ultimately drove them out of business.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, laying out that history of anti-Gygax litigation doesn't necessarily suggest that \u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e was produced as a purposeful slap in his face. In fact, there were so many freelancing professionals involved with it that it's clear that at least the \u003ci\u003eauthors, \u003c\/i\u003eat least, didn't intend to mock Gygax. Whether the TSR staff who edited the book might have been willing to do so is harder to say, as in the early 80s there had been some real resentment toward Gygax from some of the creative folks. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bottom line? We don't know if the overall concept was purposefully spiteful, but we can say pretty safely that the specific dungeon levels as written weren't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the Creators.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Another argument against \u003ci\u003eCastle Greyhawk\u003c\/i\u003e being produced out of spite? The all-star cast of authors: Fantasimulations Association, the creators of FASA's \u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e RPG (1983); Greg Gorden, one of the creators of \u003ci\u003eDC Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e (1985); Jennell Jaquays, a well-known illustrator and author for Flying Buffalo, Judges Guild, and TSR; John Nephew, the future founder of Atlas Games; Steve Perrin, author of \u003ci\u003eRuneQuest\u003c\/i\u003e (1978); Rick Swan, a frequent TSR writer from 1988-95; Ray Winniger, another Mayfair Games star, who'd soon be better known for his work on second edition \u003ci\u003eDC Heroes\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eUnderground\u003c\/i\u003e (1993); and many others of note.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chaos Lord Games","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47290701185218,"sku":"HiB-400-3d","price":34.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/0591\/3538\/files\/s-l1600_ae6bfb81-aed6-4f9f-8220-34af0d508f8d.webp?v=1776988243","url":"https:\/\/chaoslordgames.com\/products\/1e-wg7-castle-greyhawk-advanced-dungeons-dragons-ad-d-1st-edition","provider":"Chaos Lord Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}