Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Cover by Jeff Easley Revealed at Gary Con

Luke Gygax revealed the cover to his upcoming collaboration with Wizards of the Coast at Gary Con over the weekend. During an annual auction at the convention, Gygax revealed a painting by Jeff Easley featuring his famed character Melf. According to GamingTrend, which posted the news on Saturday, the painting will be used as a cover for the upcoming Greyhawk compendium being developed by Gygax and Wizards of the Coast, which was unofficially called Melf's Guide to Greyhawk. The painting was won by actor Vince Vaughn, who paid $5,000. You can check out an image of the cover below, courtesy of GamingTrend. More photos of the artwork can be found on that site.

Gygax and D&D Head of Franchise Dan Ayoub announced their collaboration earlier at Gary Con, with Ayoub emphasizing a desire to "mend the rift" between the Gygax family and Dungeons & Dragons. No specifics have been revealed for what the book will entail, other than that it will be set within Greyhawk. Greyhawk is also featured in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide, although at the time Wizards had no plans to further flesh out the setting beyond that book.

Wizards of the Coast also announced at Gary Gon that Gen Con would serve as an announcement hub for upcoming books starting this year, and that modules would be returning in some format tied to the new Seasons approach to promoting material.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Luke has said there will be variant rules to increase the lethality of 5.5

Well I am surprised. Wonder what they will be.

 

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But I'd love to see Luke and WotC give it a try using Gary's original notes. While WotC owns Greyhawk, other companies have licenses for the Castle Greyhawk notes, so not sure how likely that is . . . but I think it could be super cool!

...this year's castle zagyg is probably the closest we'll ever get to the original castle greyhawk; it's not as slickly-produced as anything wizards of the coast might publish but the troll lords are rendering gary's intent faithfully, certainly far moreso than wizards of the coast might...