591 CY

Events

In this year

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Around this year

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Publications

The following publications take place in this year:

• Player's Guide
• The Adventure Begins
• Die Vecna Die!
• Dungeon #78 to #89, including the following Greyhawk adventures:
  • Deep Freeze (Dungeon #83)
  • Lord of Scarlet Tide (Dungeon #85)
  • Cradle of Madness (Dungeon #87)
  • Headless (Dungeon #89)
• Slavers
• The Scarlet Brotherhood (6106 SD)
• Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff
• Living Greyhawk Gazetteer
• Living Greyhawk Journal #0 - #7
• Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil

Living Greyhawk

The 591 campaign year began on August 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2001. Subsequent years would run for one year from Jan 1 to Dec 31.

Notes

591 CY is a significant year for World of Greyhawk products. Following TSR's bankruptcy and acquisition by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, the Dungeons & Dragons brand returned to releasing Greyhawk products for the first time since 1993's WGR6 The City of Skulls. In 1998, Wizards of the Coast released the Player's Guide, which explicitly advanced the timeline by six years from 585 CY (used in 1993's WGR4 The Marklands and recommended in 1998's Return of the Eight) to 591 CY.

This year remained explicitly current in D&D third edition's Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, published in 2000, and in 2001's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, based on the dating of the Battle of Emridy Meadows (569 CY) as "22 years ago".

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.

"There is an easy formula you can use to determine when any "Greyhawk" adventure takes place within the framework of the campaign timeline. Take a look at the last digit of the real-world year [before 2000] in which the adventure was published. Put a 5 and a 9 in front of it to determine the corresponding Greyhawk Common Year"