Jeffrey P. Talanian, Paul J. Stormberg, and Allan T. Grohe Jr.

GaryCon V Seminar Saturday, 16 March 2013  Introductions  Early History of the Original Castle –Paul  The Expanded Castle – Allan  Castle Zagyg: The Final Version –Jeff  Queries for Boccob – Q&A  *Campaign Starts *Heavy outdoor Aventures begin *Adventures into GH Castle by Teric, Robilar and *Tenser Acquires Red Dragons Tenser, and "Ahlissa" *Teric Acquire a black dragon *The Wight Adventure‐‐all a dream‐‐by Tenser *Robilar acquires 3 green dragons, looses efreeti and Robilar doing so *Other adventures‐‐Otto Captured by Tenser City has grown 4 fold with wealth flowing out of *The Level of Greyhawk Battles: Quij Slays a castle Troll and is raised in level *The White Dragon and the Wizard of the Tower *Otto joins Robilar out of distate for his captor Adventure by Robilar *The 1st lllevel is sealdled and fifidfortified by the same *Loosi ng of the "Nine " by RbilRobilar in GH castle three "Building of the "three" 3 Keeps *Strange Way and Odd Alley adventures by *The Solo Adventures of Robilar Robilar, finds a ring of spell turning. *Robilar in the Troll Dens *Finding of the MU's crown by Tenser *Robilar and against the black Dragon *Robilar turns evil, killing some of his retainers, and Purple worm, level 6 of GH. but one escapes to tell the tale *Robilar goes to "China" *Robilar completes *Teric and Tenser follow Robilar to China *Scaking of the Temple of Elemental Evil by *Trip back homeward‐‐ City of Brass with flying Robilar carpets, the Rocs and the Gems *Robilar's Castle Sacked, goes into hiding. *Three different routes: Tenser heads home, *Adventure to the City of the Gods, Robilar and Teric looks for forces of voodoo in the southern isles and Robilar advantures into midern day ‐‐TSR writers take control and all is lost... Hepmonoland where he is captured and his +1 Robilar bcomes a doofus and backstabs everyone bow left behind wwhen he escapes. and is now riding an ebony bull chasing pygmies *Solo Adventures by Teric into Castle in the Bright Desert... Dungeon Europa, Dragon Horsemen of Up on a Notes Level 1975 Annual #2, the Apocalypse, Soapbox #5 , 1997 2000 2002 1st a simple maze Barracks Vaults Dungeons Open pits as traps. of rooms and corridors 2nd Included a Storerooms Dungeons Catacombs Covered pits as traps. Nixie pool & fountain of snakes 3rd torture Cells Lower Dungeons Crypts a magical laboratory that's difficult to find chamber and exists near the center of dungeon level 3; many small Obmi first encountered here, with gnoll cells and archer servitors; Obmi had boots of speed prison rooms and dwarven thrower; gnolls and Obmi had a repulsion projector ray (10'‐wide beam, 90' range), later destroyed as part of PC action;

more dangerous pits began to appear once PCs reached 3rd level and beyond: spiked pits pits 20' or 30' deep trapdoors that close upon the pit victim poison on the spikes black pudding, yellow mold, etc. at the bottom

4th crypts and Torture Crypts Gygax places a band of gnolls on the 4th undead Chambers dungeon level "in an out‐of‐the‐way corner" and hides a portable hole a dead‐end corridor behind the gnolls' lair‐‐‐the 'hole is open, so it looks like a "jagged hole in the floor" (it is 10 feet deep and four feet wide) Dungeon Europa, Dragon Horsemen of Up on a Notes Level 1975 Annual #2, the Apocalypse, Soapbox #5 , 1997 2000 2002 5th a strange font Maze Catacombs of black fire and gargoyles 6th repeating Labyrinth Labyrinth Labyrinth maze with dozens of wild hogs (3 HD) in inconvenient spots, backed by wereboars 7th circular Catacombs Lesser Caves Lesser Caves 7th labyrinth and a street of masses of ogres 8th eight through Crypts Greater Caves Greater Caves the Jeweled Man, "a figure made entirely of tenth levels gold" and "encrusted with faceted gems of were caves all sizes and shh"apes"‐‐"h"thousand s of carats of and caverns diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and rubies" featuring first encountered by Terik, Robilar, and Trolls, giant Tenser in a large chamber on dungeon level insects and a 8 (the "mid‐levels" and "down to a moderate transporter depth"); Erac’s Cousin and Aylerach fine a nexus with an dungeon maze "at the center of which a evil Wizard werebear guarded a special scroll that would (with a free the Fraz‐urb‐luu from his confinement" number of tough associates) Dungeon Europa, Dragon Annual Horsemen of the Up on a Soapbox #5 Notes Level 1975 #2, 1997 Apocalypse, 2000 , 2002 9th Arena Caverns Lesser Caverns 9th

10th Greater Caverns 10th

11th The remainder of 11th the level was populated by Martian White App,es, except the sub‐passage system underneath the corridors which was full of poisonous creatures with no treasure 12th filled with Dragons 12th

13th ?? "Invisible Maze = level 13 Monster” (bottom where Zagyg was level) manifest  Side levels included a barracks with , Hobgoblins anf Gnolls continually warring with each other, a museum, a huge arena, an unddderground lklake, a Giant' s home, and a garden of fungi.)  Bottle City  Black Reservoir  Machin e Leeevel  Orc Level  Pools/Pentacles level (where Erac died)  Museum from Another Age  Arena  Garden of the Plant Master  Orc/Hobgoblin/Gnolls battleground (perhaps the same as the Orc level?)  Giants' home (perhaps with Giant's Pool Hall?)  Some of these levels may have been more like set‐piece encounters, including Garden of the Plant Master (as initially conceived), Giant's Pool Hall, etc. vs. entire levels, perhaps.  Extra‐planar/Extra‐planetary/etc. ‐underground lake [Black Reservoir?] ‐series of caverns filled with giant fungi [side level per #12 ab?]bove?]  Wonderland ‐ EX1/EX2 ‐bowling alley for 20' high Giants [same as Pool Hall?]  Skull Island ‐ WG6 ‐arena of evil [side level per #12 above?]  Barsoom (ERB) ‐crypts [most likely level 4 above]   Melnibone (MM) The Teeth of Barkash Nour   Oz (Frank Baum) MkiMonkeying AdAround (Isl e of the AA)pe), HHiorsing AAdround (Greek Mythology level), and Clowning(or was it fooling) around?  Dying Earth (Vance) I'm drawing a blank on the last one.   Element Master/YinYang levels from “The Heart of Darkness”  Vance's Planet of Adventure in the short story collection Night Arrant  Greek Mythology  Roblbilar employs Herb the sage to get to one of Oerth's moons, but Herb wastes Robilar's treasure creating Oerth's  NYC subways largest catapult; Gygax intended PCs to adventure on the  Starship Warden ("Faceless Men & Clockwork Monsters") moons, but after Robilar's fiasco, none ventured there  Nazi Germany ("Sturmgeschutz and Sorcery")  DMG: a land of pure Greek mythology; the island of King Kong; Jack Vance's "Planet of Adventure", where they hunt sequins in the Carabas while Dirdir and Dirdirmen hunt them.  OD&D U&WA: ‐museum from another age [id[side lllevel per #12 ab?]bove?]

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