time, Gygax was in Hollywood on a semi-permanent basis, approving scripts for the Saturday morning Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series and trying to land a deal for a D&D movie. Not only was Gygax's own output of Greyhawk-related materials greatly reduced, but the company began to shift its focus and resources away from Greyhawk to a new campaign setting called Dragonlance. The success of the Dragonlance series of modules and books pushed aside the World of Greyhawk setting, as TSR concentrated on expanding and defining the world of Krynn. One of the factors that contributed to the success of the Dragonlance setting when it was published in 1984 was a series of concurrent novels by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. Gygax realized that novels set in Greyhawk could have a similar benefit for his campaign world and wrote Saga of Old City, the first in a series of novels that would be published under the banner Greyhawk Adventures. The protagonist was Gord the Rogue, and this first novel told of his rise from the Slum Quarters of the city of Greyhawk to become a world traveler and thief extraordinaire. The novel was designed to promote sales of the boxed set by providing colorful details about the social customs and peoples of various cities and countries around the Flanaess. Before Saga of Old City was released in November 1985, Gygax wrote a sequel, Artifact of Evil. He also wrote a short story, "At Moonset Blackcat Comes", that appeared in the special 100th issue of Dragon in August 1985. This introduced Gord the Rogue to gamers just before Saga of Old City was scheduled to be released. Greyhawk modules In the two years after the Greyhawk boxed set appeared, TSR published eight adventures set in Greyhawk. Five were written or co-written by Gygax, and the other three were from TSR's United Kingdom division: EX1 Dungeonland (Gary Gygax, 1983) EX2 Land Beyond the Magic Mirror (Gary Gygax, 1983) Both of the EX adventures, although nominally set in Greyhawk, transported characters through a planar gate into an alternate reality. UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave (Dave Brown, Tom Kirby & Graeme Morris, 1983) UK2 The Sentinel (Graeme Morris, 1983) UK3 The Gauntlet (Graeme Morris, 1984) WG5 Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (Robert Kuntz & Gary Gygax, 1984) WG6 Isle of the Ape (Gary Gygax, 1985) T1–4 The Temple of Elemental Evil (Gary Gygax & Frank Mentzer, 1985)