Canonfire!
Encyclopedia
Canonfire! is a fan Web site which acts as a repository for information about the World of Greyhawk campaign setting
for the Dungeons & Dragons
roleplaying game. The site is notable for its large collection of articles about the now out of print setting ranging from simple indexes of previously published game content to fan fiction
and quasi-official missives from authors associated with the setting such as Erik Mona
's The Final Word on Iuz and Company.
Canonfire! was created by the members of the GREYtalk mailing list as a repository for creative material. The site hosts forums and chat rooms
for fans to discuss, debate, and share ideas about the setting in addition to its archives.
Campaign setting
A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place...
for the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
roleplaying game. The site is notable for its large collection of articles about the now out of print setting ranging from simple indexes of previously published game content to fan fiction
Fan fiction
Fan fiction is a broadly-defined term for fan labor regarding stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator...
and quasi-official missives from authors associated with the setting such as Erik Mona
Erik Mona
-Career:Erik Mona served as the editor-in-chief of Dragon magazine since 2004 and Dungeon magazine from 2004 to 2006; at the time, both magazines were published by Paizo Publishing, until the license through Wizards of the Coast expired in September 2007...
's The Final Word on Iuz and Company.
Canonfire! was created by the members of the GREYtalk mailing list as a repository for creative material. The site hosts forums and chat rooms
Internet Relay Chat
Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
for fans to discuss, debate, and share ideas about the setting in addition to its archives.
External links
, an early review of the site by GamingReport.com- Canonfire! references
- , main page