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World of Greyhawk Timeline • Common Era • Age of Great Sorrow
593	594	595	596	597	598 CY	599	600	601	602	603
In other reckonings: 1018 SE • 1242 OR • 1402 OL • 2006 TC • 2748 FT • 3257 BH • 5060 OC • 6113 SD

Events

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Around this year[edit timeline]

Publications

In 2008 the primary means of publishing Greyhawk material was online—on the Wizards.com website or through the RPGA Living Greyhawk campaign. The Greyhawk Grumbler, for example, came out in 2008 (598 CY).

The last third edition hardback sourcebooks and adventures were in 2007, as well as the print Dungeon and Dragon magazines, and fourth edition began in 2008. Later products which referenced Greyhawk, such as Tales from the Yawning Portal or Ghosts of Saltmarsh (2019), either did not specify a year or did not advance the timeline.

In Living Greyhawk

This section contains content from the Living Greyhawk organized-play campaign.

The 598 campaign year began on January 1, 2008 and ended on December 31, 2008. This was the final year of the Living Greyhawk campaign.

Notes

Living Greyhawk content published in 2008 are all set in 598 CY.

As was Wizards of the Coast's policy at the time, the Living Greyhawk campaign continuity advanced the timeline to 591 CY for works released in 2001, continuing on a year-for-year basis for all adventures and Wizards.com web articles up to to 598 CY in 2008. This timeline concurrency rule would also be applied in Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), set in 591 CY, and Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk (2007), set in 597 CY CY, explicitly set dates bookending these years.

In several Paizo forum threads, editor Erik Mona asserted that the rule applies in general to all Greyhawk adventures:^[1]^[2]^[3]

"The default assumption of all Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon ... is that the last digit of the year in which they were published corresponds to the last digit in the Common Year calendar... 59X CY (X= last digit of real world year). So adventures published in 2004, for example, take place in 594 CY."
—Erik Mona (Jul 2007)^[3]

Citations

↑ Mona, Erik. Appropriate Year for Greyhawk SCAP (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 22 November 2006. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
↑ Mona, Erik. What happens before the Greyhawk Wars? (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 2 February 2006. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
↑ ^a ^b Mona, Erik. Campaign Dates for all three APs (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 31 July 2007. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.

[1] Mona, Erik. Appropriate Year for Greyhawk SCAP (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 22 November 2006. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.

[2] Mona, Erik. What happens before the Greyhawk Wars? (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 2 February 2006. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.

[campaigndates-3] Mona, Erik. Campaign Dates for all three APs (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo, 31 July 2007. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.

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 ==Notes==
-Living Greyhawk products published in 2008 are all set in 598 CY.
+''[[Living Greyhawk]]'' content published in 2008 are all set in 598 CY.
 As was [[Wizards of the Coast]]'s policy at the time, the ''[[Living Greyhawk]]'' campaign continuity advanced the timeline to [[591 CY]] for works released in 2001, continuing on a year-for-year basis for all adventures and Wizards.com web articles up to to [[598 CY]] in 2008. This timeline concurrency rule would also be applied in ''[[dragmag|Dragon]]'', ''[[Dungeon]]'', and ''[[Polyhedron]]'' magazines.  The ''[[Living Greyhawk Gazetteer]]'' (2000), set in 591 CY, and [[Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk]] (2007), set in [[597 CY]] CY, explicitly set dates bookending these years.