LordGosumba Twitch.TV DM Roundtable Replay from 22 September 2019

I should have been more proactive about posting the DM Rountable I was invited to last night on Jay "Lord Gosumba" Scott's Twitch.TV live stream, but with everything else going on I forgot to blog about it beforehand:

LordGosumba DMs Roundtable -
22 September 2019

In case you're curious, on Sunday, 22 September 2019 I'll be live on Jay Scott's LordGosumba TwitchTV channel, in a DMs Roundtable discussion focusing on Greyhawk and AD&D 1st edition:

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Hello Friends and Greyhawkers! On this weeks Gabbin at Lord Peak's Haven #63 - DMs Roundtable Discussion, we will have some well known names in the Greyhawk and Streaming Communities taking part!

Scheduled to participate in our 4th Roundtable Discussion, are Allan T. Grohe Jr., Carlos Lising, Anna Meyer, William Henry Dvorak, James Duffie, and Ann (Sydwe) from Knightheartgaming. We will hope to bring some experience and insight into questions you may wish to ask, and we welcome viewer input and comments!

We begin this very intriguing conversation this Sunday, Sept. 22nd, 7:30PM EDT. See you in the Live Stream https://www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba

The replay can be watched at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/485181123 and we covered some fun and interesting (and in a few cases, somewhat unexpected!) topics, including:

• Our favorite DMs?
• Our favorite adventures?
• Our favorite recurring in-game enemies?
• Our saddest in-game moments?
• How has DMing helped our jobs/lives?
• Our thoughts on consent in gaming groups/sessions?
• Who would we most want as a player at our tables and/or to play with---both historical and living?
• How do we manage improvisation?
• What's our favorite game other than D&D to run?
• What do we think about Critical Role?
• What are our plans/hopes for the future?

Jay also interviewed me on his show last month, and you can watch the replay for that at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/469154701 if you're interested:

grodog interview -
17 August 2019

I'm sure I'll get more used to the streaming process and format, at some point, and I welcome any feedback and suggestions on how to better leverage the medium/format.

Allan.

Saving Throw OSRIC fundraiser zine News and Updates - #3 on DriveThruRPG Best Sellers!

Saving Throw - Introduction
and Table of Contents

Some news and updates on Saving Throw since its launch on Sunday:

1. Thank you for your generous support of this project!---Saving Throw has been as high as #3 on the DriveThruRPG.com best sellers list this week, outpacing both Eclipse Phase 2nd Edition and Legend of the Five Rings! 
   

   

   Tuesday 17 September 2019 -
   Saving Throw is the #3 Best Seller!

   
   That wouldn't have been possible without your support!
   
   
2. Please continue to spread the word---Saving Throw isn't even a week old yet, so many old-school gamers won't be aware of it:  mention it in your gaming groups, your local game stores, and in your social media channels! 
   
   Your primary link should be back to the DriveThru project page at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/288750/Saving-Throw-fundraiser-fanzine-for-James-D-Kramer
3. Positive reviews are starting to come in:
   
   Bryce "tenfootpole.org" Lynch's review is at https://tenfootpole.org/ironspike/?p=6236 and states:
   • "Jim Kramer is the guy behind Usherwood Publishing. Several of his adventures appear on my Best & Regerts list, including Arachnaphobia and most his Bone Hilt campaign series."
   • "You should go pick this up because you’re not an asshole. And, also, because the adventures are quite good. Also, there’s a lot of OTHER content in it, beyond the adventures."
   
   The DriveThru page now notes two five-star ratings thus far, and user Guggy Z also commented as a verified purchaser:  "What a great zine! Just skimming I think the hours of solid play to page count ratio looks immense, and I appreciate the chance to support a good cause. This stuff is going right to my table ASAP!"
   
   
4. The print edition is getting closer to reality, per updates from Guy Fullerton:
   • 18 September:  On the bright side, the premium color hardcover masters got approved (this doesn't mean they'll look right), so I ordered a proof. Last time I ordered something, it took about a week to arrive. Fingers crossed.
     
     I may end up putting a variety of print options together, since drivethru makes that easy enough to do. A perfect bound book might suck format-wise, but it's cheaper to produce. I still plan on making a pair of staple-bound books available, one each with the first & last halves of the content, respectively, with the title page and OGL page in both; that's probably the cheapest option for lay-flat.
     
   • 15 September:  I submitted a cover & (non-final) interior to drivethru for a hardcover version. It takes a couple days for their validation process to determine whether there are any glitches. I will order a proof of the hardcover as soon as they give me the green light. I've never done a hardcover cover pdf before, so I don't know whether to expect multiple iterations. I tried to out-smart the lightning press template, which I may come to regret.
     
    
5. Further content updates are in the works, including new artwork; update again from Guy Fullerton:
   • 18 September:  On the artwork addition front, we got several new filler illustrations by Wind the other day, and I saw an in-progress monster illustration by austinjimm that looks pretty amazing!
   • 15 September:  If you see any typos that we didn't catch, please let rredmond or me know. I want to fix glitches before we make a print version available, and will update the pdf too with fixes and additional artwork to come.

If you're interested in following the updates and breaking news for the project, you can do so via two threads on the Knights & Knaves Alehouse:

• "Saving Throw fundraiser fanzine for James D. Kramer" in the New Products forum 
• "Need contributors to a worthy fundraiser project" in the Special Projects Info forum

Thank you again for supporting this project, and please continue to share Saving Throw to amplify its visibility---the more gamers who are aware of Saving Throw, the more support it will bring to Jim and his family! 

Allan.

Saving Throw - new OSRIC zine to support Usherwood Publishing's Jim Kramer

Saving Throw is a new zine dedicated to OSRIC and AD&D 1st edition gaming, and it's being produced to support James D. Kramer of Usherwood Adventures, who is battling through his third round of brain cancer treatments.  

Saving Throw cover art by Alex Zisch

I've known and worked with Jim for more than a decade now, and he has been an integral member of the old-school gaming communities that spawned the OSR:  his work to layout OSRIC is reflected in the standard version available on Lulu, the high-end Black Blade/Usherwood hardcover OSRIC edition, as well as his highly-usable OSRIC Pocket SRD digest-sized softcover book, also available in a layflat spiral-bound edition.  And it doesn't stop there!---Jim has built  .epub and .mobi versions of OSRIC, laid out the six issues of Knockspell Magazine, written and published the Bone-Hilt Sword Campaign, and created several stand-alone adventures and supplements, too.  

Jim's contributions to OSRIC and old-school gaming in general are quite extensive, so a group of folks at the Knights & Knaves Alehouse gathered together to help support him and his family.  Here's the product announcement from Guy Fullerton of Chaotic Henchmen Productions, who coordinated this project: 

Saving Throw — a fundraiser fanzine to help James D. Kramer

You may know Jim Kramer from his Usherwood Publishing modules & supplements, or his work helping produce works like OSRIC and Knockspell. You probably didn’t know Jim had multiple brain surgeries to remove tumors, and the battle has gotten much harder. To help Jim and his family during this difficult time, a group of his friends, collaborators, and first edition enthusiasts banded together to make this fundraiser fanzine, where all royalties go directly to Jim and his family.

This 60+ page issue of Saving Throw contains:

• Introduction by Ron Redmond
• Island Tables - random generation/inspiration tool by EOTB
• Sorcerer’s Stone - dungeon level by Keith Sloan
• Trolls of the Simpolo Swamps - leech-mated trollish variations by Joseph Browning
• Perladon Manor - adventure module by Gabor Lux
• By The Runes - fiction by Dan Rasaiah
• Magic Item Intrinsic Material Values - variant magic item value rules by Guy Fullerton
• Goblin Garbug Cavalry - new monster by Andrew Hamilton
• The Tiled Labyrinth - mini-dungeon by Guy Fullerton
• Lotus Blossoms - magical and special properties of these exotic flora by Keith Sloan
• Burly the Baker - ready-to-use NPC and cantrips by Gary Francisco
• Darkworld Troll - new monster by Bryan Fazekas
• Offig’s Tomb - treasure map by EOTB
• Lizard Man Lair - outdoor module and new monsters by EOTB
• Mephitic Geysers of the Intaglio Rift - treasure map by Allan T. Grohe Jr. (“grodog")
• The Mere Beneath - dungeon level by Guy Fullerton, Allan T. Grohe Jr. (“grodog"), and Henry A. Grohe
• Sarendra’s Crew & Kelurrin’s Crew - ready-to-use NPC parties by Allan T. Grohe Jr. (“grodog")
• Rescue from the Sanctuary of the Leopard Goddess - dungeon module by Matthew Riedel
• Featuring illustrations by Jimm Johnson, James D. Kramer, Wind Lothamer, Gabor Lux, Denis McCarthy, Peter Szmer (soon), Del Teigeler, and Alex Zisch

For the lucky price of $13, you get two treasure maps, three referee tools, five new spells, six modules, at least nine new monsters, twelve ready-to-use NPCs, and more. Plus the knowledge that your purchase helps a family during a difficult time.

Thank you!

Note: We plan to make a print version available soon. When it becomes available, will send DriveThru coupon codes to everyone who purchased the .pdf so they can get a print version at a discount.

Note #2: We are still in the process of gathering artwork for some of the articles, so don't be surprised by any of the blank spots. We will notify everybody when we update the .pdf with new art, and you can download the latest version from your library.

Here's a preview of one of the earlier drafts for my "Mephitic Geysers of the Intaglio Rift" treasure map:

Treasure map to the
Mephitic Geysers of the Intaglio Rift
by Allan Grohe

Please consider purchasing a copy of Saving Throw to support Jim and his family!

  

Allan.

grodog in Greyhawk---a Summer Raining Multitudes!

It's been a busier summer than usual this year, in part because I've got lots of Greyhawk going on, which is a wonderful "problem" to have =)

Here's what's been cooking:

• I'm continuing to play in Bill "TheDungeonDelver" Silvey's ongoing Greyhawk AD&D campaign, which is heavily-focused at present on the exploration of his version of Castle Greyhawk!  Let me tell you that it's a treat to explore Bill's Greyhawk and its Castle, not knowing a thing about it =)
  
  Here's where we are, after spending most of this year clearing out the upper ruins of Bill's version of Castle Greyhawk:
  
  
   

  

  Bill Silvey's Castle Greyhawk - Ruins Level
  Player map by Allan Grohe

  
  
  

  Bill Silvey's Castle Greyhawk - Ruins Level
  Player map by Allan Grohe

  
  
  We just began to explore down the central well last week, and will likely pick that up again this week.
  
  I began playing in Bill's game since July last year, and have enjoyed it immensely!  Thus far we've remained in the vicinity of Greyhawk City and the Gnarley Forest---not counting a demi-planar/extra-planar holiday adventure at Christmastide.  My high elf, Svert, is now a 5/5 Fighter/Magic-User, about to level up to 6th MU (but I've hit my level limit in Fighter unless I'm able to permanently gain two or more points of Strength, alas...).


• My 11-year-old son Henry has been running an on-and-off again AD&D campaign for some school friends, his older brother Ethan, my wife Heather, and me (although both Ethan and Heather have largely stopped playing D&D in general save for special occasions here and there).  Set in his Underground Mansion dungeon, situated on an island in the Nyr Dyv.  While Henry's game is nominally set in Greyhawk, he doesn't know much about the setting itself, which is fine because he crafts a great mega-dungeon.  This is what we've explored of the first level to date, before moving into the second level over the summer:
  
  

  

  Henry's Underground Mansion - Level 1
  Player Map by Allan Grohe

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  


• Henry, not quite having enough AD&D in his life already (!!!, to quote Andy Markham), began to craft a new mega-dungeon earlier this summer as the primary forus of his game for just me and him to play in.  (Which is pretty darn sweet, isn't it?).  We've played once thus far over Labor Day weekend, and I'm looking forward to getting back in there to see what else I can find:
  
  

  

  Henry's Dada Mega-Dungeon - Level 1
  Player Map by Allan Grohe



• And, since I'm clearly not having sufficient fun in the World of Greyhawk already (!!!), I am in the process of starting up one or perhaps two groups of new players in The Flanaess locally here in Wichita.

I've also been continuing to work on some of my levels of my version of Castle Greyhawk for publication next year, and have made good progress on The Iounic Caverns, The Heretical Temple of Wee Jas, Diamonds in the Rough, and The First Landings Level.

More to come on that front as things continue to develop!

Allan.

Darlene Greyhawk Gothic Font

Darlene Artist's wonderful Greyhawk font, showing-off some of the dungeon level titles from my version of Castle Greyhawk!

You download the free-for-non-commercial-use font from https://www.facebook.com/groups/1471065309863986/permalink/2082384232065421/

In the text file of the download, Darlene includes details on how to purchase a commercial license as well.  

Some additional context/details from Anna Meyer, who sponsored Darlene's development of the font:

I helped Darlene create a font featuring the famous script of the Greyhawk logo. It took awhile but here it is, version 1 of the Greyhawk Gothic font.

It is released as Creative Commons -BY -NC -SA 4.0 so you can use it for all your gaming needs as long as they are not for commercial purposes. 

You can grab it here: http://bit.ly/GreyhawkGothic-Font

After I downloaded the font, I played around with it using some of my Castle Greyhawk dungeon level titles:

Allan.

"Celebrating Greyhawk - A Fandom Renaissance" GaryCon XI - seminar video recording now available

Luke Gygax just posted the video from our "Celebrating Greyhawk - A Fandom Renaissance" seminar at GaryCon XI to his YouTube channel:

Thank you Luke, for arranging to record the seminars and for keeping GaryCon a great place for Greyhawk gaming, year-in-and-year-out!

Allan.

The Spinel Ossuarium - Reliquary of St. Kargoth

The Spinel Ossuarium - Reliquary of St. Kargoth, Grand Marshal of the Demonic Knights of Doom

Sacred to the faiths of Erythnul and St. Kargoth, The Spinel Ossuarium is known to house the ashes and bone fragments of St. Kargoth's mortal form.  Previously anointed as Grand Marshal of the Demonic Knights of Doom, Kargoth's conflagration in Mentrey marked the end of his mortal existence as his body was consumed in his fiery descent into death knighthood.

The central skull gemstone of The Spinel Ossuarium is of dark rust-red luster, and was Kargoth's unholy symbol in life.   The unholy symbol is encased in red-gold and platinum, and inset with twenty-two diamonds, one for each Demonic Knight of Doom in the order, with a baleful jacinth crowning the amulet for Kargoth himself.  The whole is mounted upon a double-stranded thick red-gold chain that cannot be broken if worn by the faithful.

Known powers for The Spinel Ossuarium operate at 28th level and include:

• Continuously radiates Protection from Law and Protection from Good in a 20' radius at double-strength; the hue of the aura is as of drying blood
• Detect Good at triple duration and range 6/day
• Commune twice per week with St. Kargoth, once per month with Erythnul; up to 5 questions may be asked
• Eruption of Discord, as Symbol, at 18" range with 50' radius area of effect twice per month
• Radiates Protection from Good in a 400' radius sphere at quadruple-strength for 28 hours once per month
• When unholy water is poured through the reliquary, the unholy water tints red with the blood of Kargoth, and inflicts +2 damage.  If unholy sacred red wine of Medegian vintage is poured through the reliquary and harvested in a unhallowed bloodstone font, the wine will transform into an unholy elixir of healing:  if consumed by a neutral or evil character, it cures as 2-9 hit points of damage; if drunk by the faithful of Erythnul or St. Kargoth, it heals as Keoghtom's Ointment, curing 9-12 points of damage, curing disease, and neutralizing poison; good characters drinking it must save vs. poison at -4 or die, with successful saving throws inflicting 18-24 (2d4+16) points of damage and the effects of a symbol of pain for one day per point of damage sustained.

The Fables of Burdock describe further powers which may or may not be actual, most centering around the ability to create or to summon the Blood Shades of St. Kargoth---whether these were powers of the relic or of Kargoth himself are mysteries revealed only to the Prelates of Terror.

GP Value: 135,000 gp based on its monetary value alone

Thanks for The Red Priest (TRP) at The Knights & Knaves Alehouse, who inspired this creation:  http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16096

Allan.

grodog interview on Twitch TV, Sunday 18 August @ 7:30pm EDT

Jay Scott, one of the gamers I know in South Jersey, runs a Twitch TV channel dedicated to his 30+ year 1e campaign set in the World of Greyhawk. 

While visiting with him on my last trip back home, he asked about having me on his show, which will be live-streamed on Sunday this weekend.  Here's his announcement:

Sunday Evening on the Lord Gosumba Channel

Hello Friends and Greyhawkers! Finishing up a wonderful vacation week with family at the shore! On this Sunday's Gabbin at Lord Peak's Haven #58, my special guest will be Allan T. Grohe Jr., the grodog!

We will discuss Allan's multitude of accomplishments to the D&D and gaming community, his love of the World of Greyhawk, and share what Allan and his company, Black Blade Publishing, are working on currently.

Also, we will discuss some intriguing Greyhawk topics, including, Castle Greyhawk and Castle El Raja Key, Greyhawk Artifacts, rules variants for homebrew Campaigning, and using third party D&D Adventures in the World of Greyhawk setting. I cannot wait to delve into this discussion!

As always, we will welcome questions and participation from the audience! See you Live Stream, Sunday, 8/18, 7:30 PM EDT! https://www.twitch.tv/lordgosumbahttps://www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba

Perhaps I'll see a few of you on Sunday night in the audience :D

Allan.

Cairn Hills Lairs - The 1st and 2nd Fluted Cairns

I've been noodling on more regional Greyhawk adventure locations, and the Cairn Hills continue to call to me---there's LOTS of room in them thar hills for various vicious and grand adventuring sites, as well as gold and explorational hijinks!

The Cairn Hills - map by Darlene
from the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio

I've dubbed these small dungeons Cairn Hills Lairs, and drew two new ones last night and this morning. Both are part of an inter-related system of cairn dungeons called "The Fluted Cairns"---so called because of their titular flutes are, in fact, the entrances into the cairns:  I imagine them as the end-points for large pipe-organ-like tubes that stick up out of the ground all over the hill that the cairn is sited on. You enter by climbing in and sliding down, arriving in one of the various fluted corridors drawn along the edges of each map:

The Fluted Cairn

The Fluted Cairn - by grodog

The Second Fluted Cairn

The Second Fluted Cairn - by grodog

 

More to come later in terms of the actual key information about the Fluted Cairns, as well as updated maps with intra-level stairs and other dungeon features.

Allan.

Celebrating Greyhawk: A Fandom Renaissance - GaryCon XI Seminar

On Friday afternoon last week, I co-hosted a seminar panel discussion at GaryCon XI entitled, "Celebrating Greyhawk—A Fandom Renaissance."  Our panel had a great time discussing past, current, and future fan works, projects, and plans centered on The World of Greyhawk, across all editions, eras, and versions. 

Seminar Topics

The seminar brought together six long-time Greyhawk fans, each discussing different aspects of fan engagement with the Greyhawk setting:

• Kristoph Nolen kicked off the seminar, starting at 4:00.
• Mike Bridges (starting at 9:00 to 14:20) spoke to his writings, art, and cartography as seen via his Greyhawkery blog, his creative work on Ull, his W.o.G. comic (showcased weekly-ish on Facebook by Bryan), and Castle Greyhawk comic (written by Scott Casper with Mike's artwork), and his recent work with Anna Meyer on their Legends & Lore show on the Greyhawk channel (live on Twitch, reruns on YouTube)
• Allan Grohe (me, starting at 15:00 to 27:55) shared some of my favorite Greyhawk researchers and their "deep dives" into the setting's lore, in particular the work of bloggers like Timrod's T1 Moathouse-DMG Sample Dungeon-B2 analysis, Scott “scottsz” Szczypiorski for his Cold Text Files work on WG4 Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun, and Scott Casper and Mike Bridges' Castle Greyhawk web comic, among other topics.  You can also download my "Greyhawk Fandom - The Deep Cuts" presentation in PDF format.
• Anna Meyer (starting at 28:40 to 53:20) spoke about her long-term love for and engagement with the cartography of the Greyhawk setting, including the Flanaess Geographical Society and her Patreon---Anna is the only panelist who's full-time day-job focuses on games-related work; Anna also spoke about Creative Commons licensing
• Carlos Lising (starting at 54:20 to 1:10:22) discussed how to publish and share your Greyhawk home content, with an emphasis on the challenges around self-publishing for Greyhawk based lessons learned via his casl Entertainment publishing company and Patreon
• Bryan Blumklotz (starting at 1:11:06 to 1:30:45) spoke about the dynamics of building, growing, maintaining, and managing fan communities, how to help encourage Greyhawk fans to tap into the wealth of resources that are available today; Bryan co-administers the Canonfire!  Facebook group, and also creates fabulous Greyhawk Heraldry (which we didn't discuss much during the seminar, but which is featured throughout Anna's maps as well as OJ28 and its handouts!)
• Kristoph Nolen (starting at 1:31:45 to 1:49) wrapped up our presentations with his vision for GreyhawkOnline's role in the Greyhawk fan community, including the Greyhawk Wiki, fan space on GHO (both current and legacy fan sites), and the Oerth Journal, among other topics
• Q&A conclude the session, starting at 1:49.

I recorded the audio for the seminar and posted it to my site at http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/greyhawk-seminar-garycon-2019-03-08.mp3.  A transcript for the session will also available once I get that generated.  If I get ambitious, I'll carve up each segment so that you can drop back into the seminar wherever you'd like to do so, but until that time, I've placed time-markers in our section notes above.

GaryCon also recorded audio/video for the session, and it is available on YouTube on Luke Gygax's YouTube channel @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCfI_zFaVZE:

 

The GaryCon event description for the seminar is at
https://tabletop.events/conventions/gary-con-xi/schedule/355 and if you're curious I wrote a little more about the seminar's background in my January update to my Charting the Flanaesss: a Settlements Distance and Mileage Chart project, too.

 

Seminar Video Content

Jay "Lord Gosumba" Scott and DMShane of the Greyhawk Channel also provided videos for the seminar.  Unfortunately we ran out of time and weren't able to share them live, but through the magic of the internet you can view them both:

• Jay built a 1:48 trailer for the 16-hour streaming charity event on 23 March 2019 from 08:00 to 23:59.  His crew will be running through an epic Greyhawk-based Stories of the Orb of Dragonkind campaign, in four parts:
  • Part 0 - The Prelude discussion for the event appears on Jay's Gabbin Show on Sunday, 17 March at 7:30 PM EDT at https://www.twitch.tv/lordgosumba
  • Part 1 - 8am-Noon EDT (on 23 March):  begins with @Giantstomp DMing in the Bandit Kingdoms at https://www.twitch.tv/wickedstudiosllc
  • Part 2 - Noon-4pm EDT: continues with @DM Marco DMing in the Shield Lands at https://www.twitch.tv/events/qJMDAokrRZCDOd5tBEb3RQ
  • Part 3 - 4pm-8pm EDT: continues with @NPCBree DMing at https://www.twitch.tv/greyhawkchannel
  • Part 4 - 8pm-Midnight EDT: concludes with Jay DMing in Greyhawk City and the Cairn Hills at https://www.twitch.tv/events/86YMUYR1TXKz7eSLRlgBtw
  
  There are two ways to Donate:  through Bits (Cheers) or using the Donate button on each Twitch Channel. All monies raised throughout the event will benefit the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.



• DMShane hosts the Greyhawk Channel, and he built a 5:23 trailer to provide a quick introduction and overview for the many shows on Twitch, (and you can watch the non-live broadcasts on the Greyhawk Channel on YouTube as well)

 

Oerth Journal 28!

At the seminar, we also debuted the newest issue of the Oerth Journal #28, and distributed 100 copies in print for free to the attendees of the seminar and other folks at the show.  This is the first time that the OJ has been published as a print project!  

Oerth Journal #28 cover -
cartography by Anna Meyer,
artwork by W. Kristoph Nolen,
heraldry by Bryan Blumklotz

The seminar participants each contributed expanded material inserted to the OJ print edition, with some new/overflow content appearing online only (not in the print booklet/handouts):

• Flanaess Maps – by Anna B. Meyer
• Greyhawk Heraldry – by Brian Blumklotz
• Map and Adventure Hooks for Ull – by Mike Bridges
• Erastoriûl Ka’arndrik: a 1e drowic sage of Erelhei-Cinlu – by Allan T. Grohe Jr.

In addition, OJ28 also includes these articles:

• Order of Ulek: Founding and Synposis – by Jay Scott
• State of the Bandit Kingdoms – by William Dvorak
• Order of Ulek: The Shield Lands – by Jay Scott
• Trading Card Style Artwork – by Jeffrey B. Garrison
• Rhennee Rumors from Up and Down the River – by W. Kristoph Nolen with the Oliver Brothers
• The Great Flanaess River Adventure – by the Oliver Brothers with W. Kristoph Nolen
• Cultists of Tharizdun – comic by Mike Bridges
• The Cerulean Cyst – by Carlos Lising, an AD&D 1e adventure set in the Cairn Hills
• The Wall – by Denis “Maldin” Tetreault, an AD&D encounter area
• Greyhawk Reborn Introduction – by Dave Guerreri
• The Greyhawk Channel – by W. Kristoph Nolen
•  Flanaess Distance Chart – by Allan T. Grohe Jr.

Lastly, the submitted materials included a lot of "overflow" content that could not possibly fit into the print issue.  

For full details, see https://greyhawkonline.com/seminar/ (and note the upcoming 24th anniversary of the OJ in May 2019, too!). 

Thank You!

We'd like to thank all of the fans who attended the seminar, who expressed interest in the recordings and the Oerth Journal content afterward, and who have helped make Greyhawk into one of the most-fun worlds to game in over the years!

Bryan, Mike, Allan, Carlos, Anna, and Kristoph.