D&D General Melf’s Guide to Greyhawk is called ‘The Shield Lands’ as actor Vince Vaughn gifts cover artwork to Luke Gygax

Luke Gygax said on social media earlier today that the full title of the upcoming Greyhawk book from WotC is Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands.

This beautiful rendering of Melf by Jeff Easley arrived at my home safely. This is the only painting of Melf that reflects my vision of him as played by me in my father's Greyhawk campaign. This will be the cover to Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands. I am so thankful to Vince Vaughn for bidding on this at the Gary Con Charity Auction and gifted it to me. He is incredibly generous and a thoughtful friend. I am taking this to get framed and then it will go on the wall near my other 2 Easley originals.

The art, by Jeff Easley, was purchased by a fan at Gary Con, winning an auction with a bid of $5,000, and it appears that the fan in question—the actor Vince Vaughn—gifted the piece to Luke. The auction was a charity auction, benefiting the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A pretty good region to start off with. Classic D&D vibes, but doesn't require detailing the City of Greyhawk or Castle Greyhawk.

 

[M.T. Black]

If it’s a multi-volume guide, then I suspect it will be digital only.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Suddenly my opinion of Vince Vaughn just went up several notches.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Suddenly my opinion of Vince Vaughn just went up several notches.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

If it’s a multi-volume guide, then I suspect it will be digital only.

it's explicitly not digital only.

 

[GravyFingerz]

I didn’t realize Vince Vaughn was a D&D fan. I’ll be honest I thought this was an April fools gag.

 

[Marc Radle]

Yep, he plays in Joe Manganiello’s game!
Inside Joe Manganiello’s Epic Dungeons & Dragons Campaign

 

[R_J_K75]

I just watched Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice with him in it. Good movie; popcorn flick. As I was watching it, I was thinking that I haven't seen him in anything lately, but he's been acting steady. Somewhere around 2000 I was searching online and found a few lists of celebrities that played D&D. A few were obvious while others were very surprising. I've looked in the last few years, but the websites are long gone.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I didn’t realize Vince Vaughn was a D&D fan. I’ll be honest I thought this was an April fools gag.

I called my wife from Gary Con to tell her I was having lunch with celebrities (I was eating lunch several tables over from vaugn….did not bother him of course).

I did however get Easley to sign my unearthed arcana though!