TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax

Gray Mouser · Jul 16, 2005

Col_Pladoh said:
Kampai!
Gary

Ah, now there's one of my favorite sayings. Nothing like a good bottle of sake to go with the sushi and sashimi!

Gray Mouser

haakon1 · Jul 17, 2005

Zudrak said:
When you LIVE in NJ, you pretty much hear all sorts of jokes from out-of-staters -- who still come in and amazingly find nothing wrong with our beaches, skiing, parks, sightseeing, the USS New Jersey... Ha.

Nobody disses a battleship . . .

I'm a New Yorker by nationality (though a West Coaster by current address), and as you know on the little AD&D PHB chart for initial attitude, the intersection of New York and New Jersey says "A". It's like elves and dwarves. But when three of my gaming friends from college lived there, I spent a lot of time in Joisey and liked it . . . after all, you have good pizza . . . but I stuck with 287 instead of the Garden State or I-95.

JRRNeiklot · Jul 17, 2005

dcas said:
There are 11 toll plazas over 172.4 miles (about one every 15.7 miles) -- each 35 cents. That's only $3.85 to travel the whole distance of the GSP. A similar distance on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is over $10. Also, when compared to the PA Turnpike or I-95, the GSP is driving heaven.

Toll roads? Our taxes already maintain the roads. Down south we lynch politicians who try to vote in that kind of crap. No tolls here.

Timeboxer · Jul 17, 2005

Hey, Gary -- this is something that I've just been curious about, though I haven't followed the thread in its entirety so possibly you may have answered it in some previous part, but:

What's your preferred way to roll for stats?

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 17, 2005

JRRNeiklot
Toll roads? Our taxes already maintain the roads. Down south we lynch politicians who try to vote in that kind of crap. No tolls here.

Come visit Dallas/Fort Worth to see and travel on mythical Southern Toll Roads!

We have 2 that I know of, and we may be getting more.

BOZ · Jul 17, 2005

JRRNeiklot said:
Toll roads? Our taxes already maintain the roads. Down south we lynch politicians who try to vote in that kind of crap. No tolls here.

in certain parts of chicago, the interstates are specifically designed in such a way that once you get to certain point on them, you're stuck paying and there's no way to get off and avoid them (unless you want to turn around and drive against traffic, woohoo!)

JRRNeiklot · Jul 17, 2005

Dannyalcatraz said:
Come visit Dallas/Fort Worth to see and travel on mythical Southern Toll Roads!

We have 2 that I know of, and we may be getting more.

Bah, Texas is west, not south!

Dannyalcatraz · Jul 17, 2005

Technically, TX is the Southwest.

We have Grits AND Guns.

Grits & Guns...hmmmm...the RPG?

Col_Pladoh · Jul 17, 2005

Amy Kou'ai said:
Hey, Gary -- this is something that I've just been curious about, though I haven't followed the thread in its entirety so possibly you may have answered it in some previous part, but:

What's your preferred way to roll for stats?

Howdy

As a DM who wants the players to be as pleased as possible with the process. I typically allow stat rolls of d46, taking the three highest, and allowing the totals to be arranged in whatever order the player desires.

In regards to HPs, I typically say re-roll any 1, and I agree with the initial GD being at the max--a good way to assist in survival of low-lEvEl PCs

Cheers,
Gary

Frank Mentzer · Jul 17, 2005

Oh scholarly senescent sloth:

In certain early TSR works if the 1970s, you sometimes wrote a Foreword, sometimes a Foreward, and sometimes a Forward.

Was there a hidden message in such variations?

-- ye nagge

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