598 CY

Events

In this year

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Around this year

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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

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 products published in 2008 are considered to take place in the year 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:

"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)