Ballad: Battle of Emridy Meadows

Hail heroes of Greyhawk! I don't have much going on this week so why not check out this cool song on YouTube produced by an amazing Greyhawk fan, 3orcs (StylinLP38 on Canonfire). It's a cover of a classic song sang with lyrics that are spot on a historical account of the battle:

"The Ballad of the Battle of Emridy Meadows was a critical military event in 569 CY in which the allied forces of good sacked the Temple of Elemental Evil and dispersed hordes of its cultists. Emridy Meadows itself is a series of grassy clearings south of the Velverdyva in the World of Greyhawk. The idea behind this video is to convey Greyhawk history to the players in a campaign without reading box text to them out of a book. That the bard Greg Laughlighter playing for his meal at a local tavern or inn. Like the Village of Hommlet "Inn of the Welcome Wench" of the T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil campaign."

Kudos again to 3orcs for creating this inspired video. Share this song with the community, you will not be disappointed!

Thankful For Greyhawk

Greetings fellow Greyhawkers! In the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving by saying what we are grateful to have. When it comes to the World of Greyhawk community we should all be thankful for the growth of our fandom. Indeed, the Greyhawk Channel's own DM Shane is among those leading the resurgence:

"My dear new friends...

Crazy to say that, but it’s the truth. Most of our community is made up of new friends - new to me and new to one another. But reality is that just one year ago, we’d only aired one show. And only a few of you were there to watch it live. There was no Greyhawk Channel - just a small group of friends taking the risk to share their regular Sunday night game.

One year later… we’ve had more than 100 people play on the channel, nearly 20 different DMs, and have streamed more than 700 hours in the process. And @everyone thats super cool.

But waaaaay more cool is that there’s now a community of people who hang out together - supporting each other, foodporning together, sharing snacks and alcohol and crude humor together. Its a big group of good friends. And this is something none of us had a year ago. Its something we all built together.

I’m a blessed man. But this year one of my greatest blessings is something I didn’t expect, didn’t plan, didn’t see coming. Its you. All of you. This year, I’m thankful as hell for every one of you who help me look forward to every morning. You have made The Greyhawk Channel home. A home I deeply love.

This was year one. I promise you all another year of adventure, laughter, and friendship. Who’s with me?"

Who is with him? The Greyhawk community is still active and alive and can be found all over the map. In addition to the many fine DMs and players at the Greyhawk Channel I'm thankful to have:

Anna Meyer for the unparalleled Atlas of the Flanaess.

Dave Guerreri and staff running 5E Greyhawk Reborn.

Joseph Bloch for his foresight and the long-running Greyhawk Grognard.

Scott Casper for co-producing the Castle Greyhawk Comic with me as artist.

The Greyhawk faithful on the forums for Canonfire, Dragonsfoot and the Piazza.

Denis Tetreault for maps, lore and hosting my old comics at Melkot.

My friends Carlos Lising and Allan Grohe for running and producing wonderful professionally made Greyhawk games at conventions like Garycon.

Of course, my game own group for the Gamerstable podcast and putting up with my Greyhawk obsession.

The amazing Facebook groups, Sages of Greyhawk, Flanaess Geographical Society and also Canonfire a Greyhawk Resource for re-releasing my old comics to a new audience.

Lord Gosumba for keeping the old school alive on new media.

Return to the Bandit Kingdoms for being there with the streaming Greyhawk fandom.

Bards of Greyhawk for doing what no one else is doing in D&D fandom. Original music.

And to so many other creators of Greyhawk content and online entertainment that I can't recall you all, Happy Thanksgiving all and let's have a great CY 2019.

A Few Greyhawk Things

As you all know I generate a lot of original content for Greyhawk. It's been a hot, lazy weekend, so today I'm going to post a few interesting Greyhawk things that I've seen other people create online.

First is a cleaned up map posted on G+ by Random Wizard of the Forbidden City from the module I1: Dwellers of the Forbidden City. Pretty cool map, probably filled with spoilers so beware! Maybe someday I'll run this jungle adventure set in the depths of Hepmonaland.

 

 

Next up is another nice installment of Jason Thompson's walk-through cartoon maps of classic modules. This time he treats us to his rendition of the adventure T1: The Village of Hommlet. Jason always packs a ton of detail into his maps, check it out if you haven't already!

 

Lastly is this group on Facebook called the Bards of Greyhawk! Now that's what I'm talking about. How have I not heard of this until now? These guys have so far done a song on Keraptis and have another one in the works about the Bright Desert. There is undoubtedly more Greyhawk-centric music on this page. Very cool, I hope these guys go to GenCon.

 

Update 06/08/2021: Had to remove link to G+ map. That service is gone!