Sixth Edition? Part 2

In my last post, I mentioned the sudden appearance of WOTC head Dan Ayoub at GaryCon sitting right next to Luke Gygax and openly stating “WOTC has lost its way.”

Well, no kidding, Dan.

The fountain of information that came from that press conference has set a lot of brains abuzz. The announcement that Luke himself is working with WOTC on a new book about his old PC Melf which will act as a guide to the Greyhawk campaign setting is the doorway to a lot of speculation.

Let’s take a step back for a minute and look at Luke: son of D&D creator/designer Gary Gygax, Luke was one of the original players in the game. His PC names, Melf and Otis the Ranger, are all over Greyhawk lore… Melf’s Acid Arrow and Melf’s Minute Meteor spring to mind… and if you’ve been to Hommlet then you had to deal with Otis. Luke knows Greyhawk like the back of his hand, and with his brother Ernie gone, he’s the go-to guy on what that campaign was like (Rob Kuntz excluded since he effectively removed himself from the industry).

So, yeah… this is the guy to give us some Greyhawk goodness.

This leads to the question: how far will this relationship with WOTC… the company that went out of its way to slander his father just a short time ago… actually go?

I think it will go far.