Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, TSR's Co-Founder Now Available

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Merlynd the Magician on Target for Early December Release

OK. Merlynd the Magician has been laid out and we are going over pre-press proofing today and the next, giving it a final look. It will then, with the 3 special color prints and the 1 special bonus print, be sent along to our printer (uploaded). From there that takes about 7 days until they ship to our fulfiller, Paul Stormberg, in the US. Then he has to weigh the combined single items for shipping costs. Then we will e-mail its availability to those on our list and post here and elsewhere about its availability and go live! And you thought these things were easy?? Nope. But they are a joy in the long road to producing them.

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New EN World Column: #1

I am now an author for EN World with a monthly column.  Six lead columns have been submitted to EN World with the first being published several days ago:

https://www.enworld.org/threads/the-beginning-1968-and-meeting-gary-gygax-and-the-gygax-family.667636/

This describes my meeting Gary Gygax in 1968.  Take a look and do consider subscribing to EN World to keep up on such discussion I am having with fans, game historians and designers interested in the history of our great hobby.

CASTLE GREYFALKUN™ UPDATE

Castle Greyfalkun™ Organization

© 1973-2019.  Robert J. Kuntz.  All Rights Reserved.

North 2 Mordenkaine's Menagerie

North 3 The Terrible Tunnels

North 4 The Ancient Isle

North 5-7 Merlynd's Maze descends for 3 levels; also exit to Merlynd’s House

North 8 The Hideous Halls

South 2  Invisible Maze Level 

South 3    Gem Room and Crypts Level 

South 4 Oubliette of the Doomed 

South 5 Dead Knight's Grotto

South 6    Black Pudding Doorkeeper Level 

South 7 The Haunted Labyrinthe 

South 8 The Hexed Maze

East 2 Paths of the Forgotten

East 3  Garden & Giant's Pool Hall Level 

East 4 Chambers of Chaos

East 5  Sealed Tomb

East 6 Chambers of Chance 

East 7  The Lake Level

East 8   Machine Level

West 2 The Dark Vaults 

West 3 The Sundered Caverns

West 4 The Hidden Caves

West 5   Gallery Level

West 6 The Mad Paths

West Level 7    Barracks Level

West 8 Weird Warren

Core 9   Plus 3 inter-level specials: Horsing Around/The Hunting Grounds/The Forgotten Land

Core 10 Elevator Level

Core 11   Dreamland

Core 12   Boreal Level

Core 12A  Valhalla (special inter-level); connects to Asgard 

Core 13   Asgard 

Core 13A/B Special Annex to Demonworld, large level

Core 13C Dark Earth Annex (Tharzdu’un)

Core 14  Orb, Scepter, and Crown Level

Core 15 The Gardens of Gax/Hewaerd's Hedge

Core 16 The Dragonne Caves

Core 17 Wyrm’s Way

Core 18 Museum Phantastmagoria

...

  

TRIBUTE LEVELS (as included above/with dedications, slight historical fore-matter/work).  These are being designed with the listed players/designers in mind.

E.  GARY GYGAX:  Mordenkaine's Menagerie

Ernie Gygax:  The Terrible Tunnels

Terry Kuntz:   The Dark Vaults

Eric Nelson Shook:  The Sundered Caverns

Tom Champeny:  The Hidden Caves 

Don Kaye:  Merlynd's Maze  

Jim Ward:  Chambers of Chance  

Jim Goodfellow:  The Mad Paths 

Michael Mornard:  Dead Knight's Grotto

And an Honorarium level dedicated to Dave Arneson and his creations: 

The Haunted Labyrinthe

Joe Goodfellow--Oubliette of the Doomed

Bob Burman--Chambers of Chaos

Mark Ratner--The Ancient Isle

Joe Fischer--The Hideous Halls

Bill Corey/Cookie Corey--Weird Warren

Jeff Perren--Paths of the Forgotten

David Sutherland/Dave Trampier--Museum Phantastmagoria and Wyrm Way

As well as another Honorarium level to Mary Gygax  The Gardens of Gax (linked to Hewaerd's Hedge)  Without Mary's patience, forbearance support and all around great nature in the face of pressure and change, D&D probably would not have been published.  I am honored to create this send-up level for her for she has been sorely overlooked in the historical record from those times.

I am now adding each level as a section to my new Red Book folder and outlining/sketch mapping one after the next.  

Red Book™ Line--Free PDF MAJOR UPDATE

Three Line Studio has posted a 10 page/1.1 meg PDF file as an Update and Proposed Product Line Map for the Red Book™ Line. Very Exciting! Download at this link:

https://www.threelinestudio.com/store/the-red-book-line/

Consider joining our mailing list while at our site! And do share this link with everyone you know and at forums you visit. Things are taking shape pretty quickly here and we thank you all for being on board! -- Rob Kuntz, Somewhere in the Depths of The Mind Maze...

Days of May Sale

**OYEZ Friends & Fans! If a BARGAIN you seek to make, hurry to DAYS OF MAY SALE. Gold pieces you shall save, on ERKA Standard Edition purchase. DVDs and USBs, now a thrifty $59.99. And right in your pocket, a $20-$30 saving!**

Red Book Branded Line and "Last Man Standing" The History of Greyhawk

I have been posting a lot on Face Book.  In order to support our forthcoming Products, including the launch of the Red Book Line, please go there and show us your support.  Here's the link:

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Lots of new stuff on the near horizon.  Read the posts there and you'll understand and perhaps will be as excited as we are!

Rob Kuntz

Branded Line Rebooting The Original Greyhawk Campaign 1972-Present

"Last Man Standing"  The History of Greyhawk

Lake Geneva Days, Still Writing

I have been spurred to remember--due to the recent explosion of those accusing Zak S. of his many abuses--one of the reasons that I am writing Lake Geneva Days, a definitive insider view of my relationships with Gary Gygax, the Gygax family, TSR, etc.  It's quite an emotional chore re-summoning truths that have been closeted for so long and that paint a much different picture than I have seen expressed over the years and that in many ways approach the realm of the mythical by comparison.  

Wish me luck.   The abuses, the chicanery, the laughs and the fool's quest, and not without the battered POV of the idealist and believer mashed into a cynical pulp -- it's all there and more, including the victory of the survivor as only the latter can describe it while eyeing what is now promoted as fact about those days, its times, its people, and what actually transpired...