Riggby

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Greyhawk Character
Riggby the Patriarch
Homeland	Verbobonc
Gender	Male
Race	Human
Age
Class	Cleric
Alignment	Neutral Good
Universe	World of Greyhawk

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Riggby (also known as Riggby the Patriarch) was a major cleric of Boccob and a companion of the archmage Mordenkainen.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Death 2 Creative origins 3 Notes 4 External links

[edit] History

Riggby began his career as a priest at a small chapel. At some point, he met with Mordenkainen and other members of an adventuring band the wizard was forming, and soon became a founding member of the Citadel of Eight.

Riggby was one of the adventurers, along with Mordenkainen, Bigby and Yrag, who delved into Maure Castle to face off against Eli Tomorast and the demon Kerzit.^[1] Riggby, along with Mordenkainen's Citadel of Eight also delved into the dungeons underneath the Temple of Elemental Evil.

In 570 CY, Riggby accompanied Lord Robilar into the dungeons underneath Castle Greyhawk in an ill-fated attempt to free, and then permanently kill, the demigod Iuz, who had been imprisoned there since 505 CY by Zagig Yragerne. Sometime after the failure and release of the demigod, he settled down in Greyhawk City as the head of city's great temple of Boccob, and spent much of the balance of his life in retirement.

[edit] Death

In 597 CY, Riggby died of natural causes in Verbobonc, as depicted in the module Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk.^[2] His body was taken to Greyhawk for burial. It would be Riggby's death that set in motion the latest of Iuz's gambits to destroy the city, revenge himself on Mordenkainen and Robilar and strike out for domination of the Flanaess.

[edit] Creative origins

As with many of the original Greyhawk characters, Riggby grew out of a character played by Gary Gygax during the first campaigns run by him and Robert J. Kuntz. Riggby originated as one of a series of "henchmen" characters who followed Mordenkainen, and was named by Kuntz employing a serial naming convention (all the names ended in "-igby") that also yielded the name Bigby. He first appeared in print in the 1980 supplement The Rogues' Gallery,^[3] and was revised four years later by Kuntz for use as a player character for Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Riggby at the Greyhawk wiki.