Talk:Greyhawk canon

Regarding "Canon" vs. "Apocrypha" …

I think that there needs to be something more than these two distinctions. "Canon" mentions that it doesn't include anything written off wholesale by the IP Holder.
But, we're putting WG7: Castle Greyhawk and Child's Play and Revenge of Ghorkai in the same category as In the Shadow of Dragons.
Ghorkai isn't even published or approved by the IP Holder. I am hard pressed to understand why it's listed - I can't even find GH reference in it. Gygax wrote a lot of things that have nothing to do with GH.

For example, The Adventure Begins specifically says, "Note: WG7 Castle Greyhawk [TSR#9222, 1988] is a comedy version of this dungeon, not for use in a straightforward and serious Greyhawk campaign."
I can't think of a more direct way of writing off that adventure, wholesale.
At the same time, the Gord novels, while certainly useful and revered by some, other than the first two, do not meet the stated criteria of being "approved or published by the IP holder". And on top of that, contain absolutely non-canon elements, like destroying the world.

In the end, Canon and Fanon are clear terms. "Apocrypha" isn't. We need to separate that into at least two distinct catagories, and entirely remove Castle Greyhawk from the list of Apocrypha, either way.

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