Denis Tetreault

Greyhawk Creator

Denis "Maldin" Tetreault
Denis "Maldin" Tetreault, 202o
Nationality:	Canadian
Born:	May 1960
First Greyhawk work:	City of Greyhawk Map, LGJ #2
Alias:	Maldin

Denis Tetreault (born May 1960) is a Canadian university Academic Advisor, lecturer, and paleontologist who also happens to dabble in RPG game design.

Biography

Denis Tetreault began playing D&D/AD&D in 1980 and has been a Greyhawk DM continuously since. Using the online moniker “Maldin”, he has been involved in the online D&D community since "The Dark Years" of TSR’s online activity as a regular on rec.games.frp.dnd (mainly from 1994-1997), an early member of the GEC Group and the "Greytalk" list (since 1996), and less frequent poster on the old Greyhawk-L list.

Tetreault launched his personal World of Greyhawk website "Maldin’s Greyhawk" on melkot.com in 1998, and it remains one of the oldest still-active Greyhawk websites on the web. "Maldin’s Greyhawk" contains an enormous amount of material from his own Greyhawk campaign and, like his home campaign, includes Spelljammer and Planescape materials. "Maldin’s Greyhawk" also hosts Mike Bridges’ "World of Greyhawk Comic" archive and the Dragonsfoot community "Mapping the Depths of the Earth" collaborative Greyhawk project.

He was the Greyhawk Adventures Webring ringmaster for more than 2 decades (once over 50 member sites, but webrings have gone the way of the dodo), and the Living World of Greyhawk Webring ringmaster (for RPGA Living Greyhawk official websites). As the more modern replacement for those, he is the admin for the Greyhawk Adventures Facebook page, the first such Greyhawk-dedicated group on Facebook. He was a member of the RPGA during the Living Greyhawk years, advisor to several Living Greyhawk regional triads, and was one of two official reviewers/fact checkers on the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (by Erik Mona, Gary Holian, Fred Weining, and Sean Reynolds, 192p.) published by Wizards of the Coast in 2000 and the reference book the Living Greyhawk RPGA campaign was built on.

Tetreault is best known for having designed and produced the RPGA/WotC Living Greyhawk campaign's official map for the City of Greyhawk. It was published as a 24" x 48" (61 x 122cm) poster map insert in Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Tetreault is also well-known for writing a continuing series of articles on the City of Greyhawk with Erik Mona (then editor of Dragon magazine, Dungeon magazine, and the Living Greyhawk Journal). He is also a frequent contributing editor for the Oerth Journal.

Parts of his home campaign have become part of Greyhawk official canon, such as the design of the City of Greyhawk and many locations within it, his original City of Melkot, and his own primary player character Maldin (appearing in Dragon magazine Issue #337 (2005), Wormfood: Bazaars of the Bizarre by Erik Mona, an article supporting the Age of Worms adventure path, as well as Living Greyhawk Journal #2, "Gem of the Flanaess: City of Greyhawk" (2000).

Greyhawk works

Official Publications

• Holian, Gary, and Denis Tetreault. "Irongate: City of Stairs." Dragon #351. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, Jan 2007
• Tetreault, Denis. “Special Insert: City of Greyhawk Poster Map” Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
• Tetreault, Denis, and Erik Mona. "Gem of the Flanaess: City of Greyhawk Map Key." Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
• Tetreault, Denis, and Erik Mona. "Gem of the Flanaess: The Artisan’s Quarter." Living Greyhawk Journal #2. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2000.
• Mona, Erik, and Denis Tetreault. "Gem of the Flanaess: City of Greyhawk—Clerkburg." Living Greyhawk Journal #4. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
• Mona, Erik, and Denis Tetreault. "Gem of the Flanaess: City of Greyhawk—Clerkburg, part 2." Living Greyhawk Journal #5. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.

Fan Community Publications

• Miller, Rick, and Denis Tetreault. “Origins of the Twin Cataclysms”. Oerth Journal (Issue 22—Jun 2007)
• Tetreault, Denis. “Brindec”. PC09 Greyhawk Lairs, 2009
• Tetreault, Denis. “The Wall”. Oerth Journal (Issue 28—Feb 2019)
• Tetreault, Denis. “The Broken Staff of the Broken Staff”. Oerth Journal (Issue 29—Summer 2019)
• Tetreault, Denis, and Rick Esch. “The Pentagram”. The Oerth Journal (Issue 34—Autumn 2020)

Guest appearances on livestreams

• The Iron League—Legends & Lore #60; Special Guest: Denis "Maldin" Tetreault July 29 2020
• Very Special Guest: James M. Ward-Gabbin' at Lord Peak's Haven#104; Drawmij & Leomund Together August 16 2020
• Virtual Greyhawk Con 2020: Greyhawk—Ask the Experts and VGHC Finale Show! Gabbin #112. October 4 2020
• Gary Con XIII Ethereal; Gabbin #139: Greyhawk "Ask the Experts" Including Erik Mona & Gary Holian March 28 2021
• Greyhawk Specialty Priests, Gabbin #156, with Special Guests: Eric Boyd & Denis "Maldin" Tetreault! July 25 2021
• Virtual Greyhawk Con 2: Ask the Experts! Erik Mona, Allan Grohe, Joseph Bloch, and Denis Tetreault October 3 2021