Glossography

The Glossography is a 48-page work framed as the work of Pluffet Smedger, the Elder, of the Royal University at Rel Mord. It bears an in-world publication date of the year 998 CY, or 422 years after the "current day" of 576 CY.

A foreword describes that the other book in the 1983 box set, the Guide, was actually written by a character called the Savant-Sage who lived circa 576 CY, and is an incomplete copy of the third volume of his seven-volume Catalogue. The Glossography is in turn described as a supplement to the Guide, containing among other things mathematical models and games invented by Smedger to recreate historical events.

The Glossography describes travel rates across various terrain, settlement population and map keys, random encounter tables for various regions and types of terrain, and the distribution of high-level NPCs. The names, class and level of the rulers of the realms of the Flanaess are listed (although they are also named in the Guide).

Tables and rules to determine weather are listed, along with the effects of inclement weather on player characters, position of latitude of the Flanaess and the mapping of 2D hexes considering that the world should be spherical.

Suggested scenarios are given, including ideas for adventures and the locations of prewritten adventure modules within the World of Greyhawk. There is a random table to determine a character's place of birth.

Rules for the "Comeliness" stat are included, which represents physical attractiveness. It appears in a chapter describing the quasi-deities Heward, Keoghtom, and Murlynd, and the hero-deity Kelanen. Rules for divine abilities of gods are given, as are statistics for several important deities and special rules for clerics of certain deities.