Gaming with Gygax

grodog · Mar 10, 2012

Henry said:
Dish, man! Where the were we? I've always wondered.

Check the thread @ KNIGHTS & KNAVES ALEHOUSE • View topic - Gygax Castle Greyhawk Map for the scoop, Henry (short answer: you were on level 3).

Henry said:
And have a good time at Garycon! One year I will be there.

Thanks, I shall: I almost didn't make it this year. Anytime you make it up there, let me know and I'll save a seat in whatever Castle Greyhawk game of mine you'd like

Tav_Behemoth · Mar 10, 2012

grodog said:
I almost didn't make it this year.

Glad you did, looking forward to seeing you & everyone at GCIV!

Hearing Piratecat's account of Gary's dungeon was perhaps the high point of a fantastic FalCon experience. I've recently been fortunate enough to play with Michael Mornard, who was an original player in both Gygax and Arneson's group; fellow player Paul is collecting some of the stories here.

Rodrigo Istalindir · Jul 27, 2012

Bump. Just because everyone needs to read the first post today.

Piratecat · Jul 27, 2012

I was headed here to do exactly that - thanks!

Rodrigo Istalindir · Jul 27, 2012

If I do it, it's not attention whoring!

Rodrigo Istalindir · Jul 27, 2013

Just to keep Piratecat from attention whoring again. The things I do for that guy.

GM_Chris · Jul 28, 2013

Gygax really looked like an evil DM

There was a story about how he wrote tomb of horrors so that he could kill people's favourite characters. I think he requested the names and address of their GMs as well.

Scott DeWar · Jun 4, 2015

bump, for the high value of this thread!

Rel · Mar 4, 2017

Raising a glass to Gary tonight. These are memories that I'll carry with me all the rest of my days.

Henry · Mar 4, 2017

Rel said:
Raising a glass to Gary tonight. These are memories that I'll carry with me all the rest of my days.

Me too, bud. I was actually going to start a new thread about memories of Gary today, but saw this.

For the short time I knew him, I was most struck by how he genuinely enjoyed chatting with every gamer he came across. Man wasn't shy with his opinions, but he always seemed genuinely pleased to chew fat, even if he had completely different opinions.