Bigby (Greyhawk)
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In the Dungeons & Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting, Bigby is an archmage. The former apprentice of Mordenkainen, Bigby is part of the Circle of Eight, and is a former member of the Citadel of Eight. Before the Greyhawk Wars, Bigby made his home in Scant, capital of Onnwal. Nowadays, he can often be found in Mitrik, Veluna.
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[edit] Spells
Bigby is responsible for developing such commonly known spells as:
- Bigby's Clenched Fist
- Bigby's Crushing Hand
- Bigby's Forceful Hand
- Bigby's Grasping Hand
- Bigby's Interposing Hand
Bigby has also developed the following additional spells:
- Bigby's Battering Gauntlet
- Bigby's Besieging Bolt
- Bigby's Bookworm Bane
- Bigby's Construction Crew
- Bigby's Dextrous Digits
- Bigby's Fantastic Fencers
- Bigby's Feeling Fingers
- Bigby's Force Sculpture
- Bigby's Most Excellent Force Sculpture
- Bigby's Pugnacious Pugilist
- Bigby's Silencing Hand
- Bigby's Slapping Hand
- Bigby's Strangling Grip
- Bigby's Superior Force Sculpture
[edit] Writings
Bigby is known to have authored the following works:
- Manual Powers Beyond Life
[edit] Trivia
In the computer game Planescape:Torment, some text found within the game's files (but not within the game itself) indicates that Bigby was an incarnation of the The Nameless One. [1]
In the book Passage To Dawn by R.A. Salvatore when Harkle Harpell enters into an unorthodox contest of wizardry with the Sea Sprite's wizard Robillard, Harkle boasts that he had "improved on Bigby" with his spell Bigby's Snapping digits.
[edit] References
- Blume, Brian, David Cook, and Jean Wells. The Rogues Gallery (TSR, 1980).
- Cook, David. "History of the Greyhawk Wars." Wars (TSR, 1991). Available Online: http://www.nyrond.org/turbine/page/university/greyhawkwars.html
- Cook, David. Vecna Lives (TSR, 1990).
- Gygax, Gary. Artifact of Evil (TSR, 1986).
- Gygax, Gary. Players Handbook (TSR, 1978).
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Kuntz, Robert J, and Gary Gygax. Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure (TSR, 1984).
- Mona, Erik, and Gary Holian. "Wheels within Wheels: Greyhawk's Circle of Eight." Living Greyhawk Journal #0 (Aug 2000). Available online: http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LGJcircleof8pdf.zip
- Moore, Roger E. The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).
- Moore, Roger E. Return of the Eight (TSR, 1998).
- Niles, Douglas, and Carl Sargent. The City of Greyhawk (TSR, 1989).
- Pryor, Anthony. Rary the Traitor (TSR, 1992).
- Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1993).
- Ward, James M. Greyhawk Adventures (TSR, 1988).
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