Tonight I'm going to participate in our second annual "Celebrating Greyhawk: A Fandom Renaissance" seminar at GaryCon. You can review last year's seminar info---including a summary and recording details.
Here's the 2020 event description:
Seminar will Dual Live Stream on www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba and twitch.tv/garycon2. A personal Twitch ID is helpful, but not absolutely necessary. Also, there will be Prize Drawings at Seminar Completion for Giveaway Items related to Greyhawk & Old-School Gaming---for example, free copies of the print version of the Oerth Journal.
Greyhawk fans have been creating and sharing content online for 25+ years, across many platforms. Join Bryan Blumklotz, Mike Bridges, Allan Grohe, Carlos Lising, Anna Meyer, and Kristoph Nolen as we celebrate and showcase Greyhawk resources created by the fans who champion one of D&D's oldest settings.
Additional information about the seminar will appear on the seminar page at Greyhawk Online.
- Bryan “Saracenus” Blumklotz – Bryan is the lead administrator for the Greyhawk Resources Facebook group and is creator of the World of Greyhawk Heraldry site at WoG Heraldry
- Mike "mortellan" Bridges – Mike publishes the Greyhawk blog Greyhawkery and co-hosts the weekly Legends & Lore show on the Lord Gosumba channel at Twitch
- Allan "grodog" Grohe – Allan publishes his Greyhawk fan site at Greyhawk, grodog Style and is co-founder of Black Blade Publishing (OSRIC, Rob Kuntz’s The Original Bottle City, etc.)
- Carlos "caslEntertainment" Lising – Carlos writes and publishes OSRIC adventures set in Oerth and in Avremier via the casl Entertainment Patreon
- Anna "GH Maps" Meyer – Anna publishes her Flanaess maps at www.ghmaps.net and founded the Flanaess Geographical Society and Patreon. She also co-hosts the Legends & Lore show with Mike Bridges on the Lord Gosumba Twitch channel
- Kristoph "Icarus" Nolen – Krisoph adminsiters Greyhawk Online, edits and publishes the Oerth Journal (which just launched a new Patreon!), and showcases his artwork at http://wkristophnolen.daportfolio.com/
- Jay L. Scott, Lord Gosumba Twitch channel: Jay's World of Greyhawk, Order of Ulek AD&D campaign is in its 40th+ year of gameplay; it is believed to be the oldest, continuous Greyhawk Campaign in existence. He has been streaming for two years, and his groups play D&D with a 1E/2E rules, Miniatures/Tabletop, in person, playstyle.
This year there are, of course, a few changes of note:
- Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, GaryCon has been cancelled and Virtual GaryCon has taken its place; more info/details in the GaryCon Facebook group and on the Virtual GaryCon page in TableTop Events
- Also due to the cancellation of GaryCon, Carlos Lising of caslEntertainment will not be joining the virtual seminar panel
- The structure of the panel is new this year---we'll dig into topics submitted by Greyhawk fans online, and take live topics from the audience, and have expanded audience Q&A to 30 minutes at the end of the program
- The topics of discussion are somewhat fluid due to the nature of the interaction between panelists and the audience, and while we can't promise that these will all fit into the flow of the live discussion, here's what we have in mind:
- Introductions
- Where Greyhawk Discussion is Hot in Social Media
- Greyhawk Beyond the Flanaess
- Greyhawk products - favorites, modules, obscure/under-appreciated products, etc. "
- Core" Greyhawk lore Fan Projects
- Conclusions
- This year we have several sets of prizes being offered to seminar partipants, including Greyhawk fiction by Gary Gygax, adventure modules from contemporary OSR publishers and Greyhawk classics from TSR, print copies of the Oerth Journal, and more!
See you tonight 8-10pm CDT!:
Seminar will Dual Live Stream on www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba and twitch.tv/garycon2. A personal Twitch ID is helpful, but not absolutely necessary. Also, there will be Prize Drawings at Seminar Completion for Giveaway Items related to Greyhawk & Old-School Gaming---for example, free copies of the print version of the Oerth Journal.
Allan.
