Greyhawk (and grodog) News Miscellany

Some updates from or of interest to World of Greyhawk fans:

• Virtual Greyhawk Con 2 to be held from 1 to 3 October 2021 was announced by Jay Scott, and event submissions are already live and being accepted through 29 September 2021; Event Registration begins in one week, on 15 August 2021; badges are $5 so come check it out!:
  
  
  
  
  
• Trent Foster posted his AD&D conversion notes for Gary Gygax's magnum-opus adventure, Necropolis, and he also recounts (in the links in his blog post) playing it with Gary back in the late '80s
• Dan Boggs recently posted a map by the Dutch cartographer Daniel Hasenbos that blends the original Blackmoor campaign setting with Darlene's classic Greyhawk map (as well as with Anna Meyer's too):
  
  
  
  
• Zach "Zenopus Archives" Howard recently rediscovered that the published text of Lenard Lakofka's L3 Deep Dwarven Delve adventure (the last official AD&D adventure published, in the 1999 Silver Anniversary Boxed Set) was in fact much-more accurate than he had originally thought
  
• Anthony Huso recently posted about a cool site that allows you to build heraldry at the elements level, and I thought it might catch folks' eye, particularly Greyhawk fans:  https://worldspinner.com/heraldry/device_editor/
  
• Carlos "casl Entertainment" Lising will be a Guest of Honor at GrogCon 2 in central Florida from 15-17 October 2021; Carlos will be running a new Greyhawk scenario entitled "The Witch Queen's Lament" (a title which I suggested, in fact!---and I really need to place my catch-up order on his newer titles, too)
  
• The Oerth Journal issue numbers #35, #34, and #33 are all now available to download (for free, as always) since I last plugged the zine ;)
  
• Black Blade Publishing (which I co-founded with Jon Hershberger back in 2009) has recently reprinted the rules for OSRIC (the 1e retro-clone; with ordering details if you're interested)

grodog's Greyhawk Updates and Interviews

Some new and updated content on my grodog's Greyhawk web site:

• I've recently updated my Greyhawk Anagrams page with various new entries
• I've also re-compiled my Greyhawk Runes reference file, by cutting and pasting the two sets of runes from the 1980 Folio and 1983 Boxed Set together for side-by-side comparisons (the runes are, by far, not all the same!)

 

I've also recently appeared on a pair of streaming shows, in case you'd like to catch up the recordings:

• GrogTalk on Saturday, 10 July 2021, where I chatted away with Dan and James about lots of stuff of about OSRIC and the World of Greyhawk; you can jump to the beginning of the interview at the 2:06:44 mark
  
• Bill "thedungeondelver" Silvey's livestream on Thursday, 5 August 2021, where Bill and I spend some time talking about Call of Cthulhu, Greyhawk, Wee Jas, and some general guidance for AD&D campaigning
  

 

I actually had an internet outage on the morning of Bill's stream, and dialled into the session on my phone via the Discord app (I hate apps!), which is why the perspective of the video is rather skewed ;)  

I had a great time talking with Dan, James, and Bill, and will happily revisit their shows again in the future, as our stars (and schedules) are right.

Allan.