CZ Act 1 "Alpha Preview" Map
TLG published a Castle Zagyg "Alpha Preview" to CZ1 backers on 2 April 2026, showing one-quarter of The Cellars, level 2 of Castle Zagyg:
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| Castle Zagyg Preview Map of Level 2, The Cellars |
Included along with the map were 12 pages of keyed encounters, all again labelled as an "Alpha Preview" so that we're ready for any and all typos and other errors in the text and map. I may review the encounter keys later sometime---the map is all that caught my eye in the content thus far.
Zach Howard of Zenopus Archives fame began a thread on 12 April 2026 to discuss the map and key details in Dragonsfoot's Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk forum: Castle Greyhawk Dungeon Level 2 [possible spoilers]. Trent Smith (of Mystical Trash Heap fame, and his Storm Fetish Productions rules and adventure designs are brilliantly Gygaxian) and other DF members have begun delving into the analysis, including me.
CZ Act 2 Backerkit Launch Map
The new Backerkit Castle Zagyg campaign preview launched on 7 April 2026 and revealed the complete map for the second level of Castle Zagyg, its full title revealed as Level 2 The Deep Cellars:
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| Castle Zagyg Level 2 Map, The Deep Cellars |
The lower-left portion of the map is same one from the CZ preview sent out to backers from the first campaign, but with further changes made.
The other three maps are all new to me, and I don't recognize them from my Castle Greyhawk or El Raja Key research thus far. I'll be doing some additional digging to see what (if anything) I find in my archives, but for the moment each of the other quadrants appear to be newly-revealed-to-the-public level maps, which is of course a wonderful thing!
CZ Act 2 Lower-Left Map
Here's a zoomed in version:
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| Zoomed-In Map Version of Castle Zagyg Level 2 The Deep Cellars |
Many differences exist between this map and the Alpha Preview version from earlier in the month, which I plan to review in depth alongside all three versions of the map.
Three versions, you ask?
TSR Version by Eric Shook
A much earlier version of same the lower-left corner of the CZ2 preview map was rendered by Eric Shook for the early 1980s Greyhawk revival at TSR, and was later sold at auction in the mid-2000s by Paul Stormberg of Legends of Role-Playing and The Collector's Trove fame:
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| Eric Shook's Castle Greyhawk rendering from TSR c. 1982 |
More to come soon! :D
Allan.
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