Editing Saint Cuthbert (section)

==Publication History==
As mentioned, Saint Cuthbert was born in the days when D&D was still being playtested by Gygax and Dave Arneson. As they romped around the dungeons of [[Castle Greyhawk]], some of the players wanted a specific deity so that cleric characters could receive their powers from someone less ambiguous than "the gods". Gygax thought this wasn't necessary, but, tongue-in-cheek, responded with Saint Cuthbert, the God of Common Sense who was willing to beat wisdom into people with a stick, and [[Pholtus]], God of Self Righteousness, and thus Oerth received its first two gods.

The very first mention of Saint Cuthbert - called "Saint Cuthburt" at that point" - was in a serialized short story called "The Gnome Cache", written by Gygax and printed in The Dragon #2. His faith later made its first debut in the [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition module [[The Village of Hommlet]], which is the prologue to the famous [[Temple of Elemental Evil]] adventure. The god's statistics and personality were revealed in [[Dragon Magazine]] #67, when Gygax penned the article "The Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk". St. Cuthbert and his faith would later receive more details for this edition in the splatbooks World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (1983), and in Greyhawk Adventures (1988).

In AD&D 2nd edition, he was described in the set "From the Ashes" and again in "Greyhawk: The AdventureBegins". His role in the [[Planescape]] setting was detailed in "On Hallowed Ground", and he is mentioned as a patron of [[Angel|celestials]] in "Warriors of Heaven".

In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], due to it borrowing random bits from Greyhawk as the foundation for its new generic setting, Saint Cuthbert appeared in both the 3.0 and 3.5 [[Player's Handbook]]s. Saint Cuthbert's role in the 3rd edition Greyhawk setting was defined in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, whilst his "generic D&D" church was expanded in Deities & Demigods for 3.0 and [[Complete Books Series|Complete Divine]] for 3.5. He also received a 3.5 expansion in the [[Dragon Magazine]] #358 "Core Beliefs" article.

Absent in 4th edition, he returned as part of the Greyhawk Pantheon listed in the [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] [[Player's Handbook]].

[[Image:2e Saint Cuthbert.png|200px|thumb|right|How older players remember him. ]]

{{D&D-Greyhawk-Deities}}