Mr. Gygax,
First off, let me offer my apologies if the questions I ask have been covered already; I've only recently discovered your Q&A threads here, and several hours of slogging through them have been absolutely engrossing, but I'm nowhere near having read them all.
I'd like to start off with a question relating to one of my favorite series of modules penned by your good self; the Giants/Drow/Lolth series.
In it, you set up a wonderfully complex internal political struggle within the Drow society. On the one hand is clan Eilserv, having broken away from the worship of the demonness Lolth and using the giants' attacks on the surface to increase their influence within the Vault, at the expense of the more "orthodox" elements of Drow society who still worship Lolth. A clever party of adventurers would surely be able to use that conflict to their advantage; since the Elder Elemental God-worshipping Eilservs are the instigators behind the giant depredations, does it not make sense that their rivals the Lolth-worshipping establishment, could be a natural ally for the party?
However, that conclusion comes into question with the climax of the series of adventures, "Queen of the Demonweb Pits". Here, all of a sudden the big, bad villian seems to have been swapped out. Surely Lolth would have been pleased at the downfall of clan Eilserv (who had abandoned her worship and actively sought to supplant those loyal to her within the Vault) at the hands of the party. I'm curious as to how you envision the transformation of the chief villain of the piece from the Elder Elemental God to the demonness Lolth.
Also, on a somewhat-related note, I am currently having the pleasure of re-reading "Sea of Death". I'm wondering what relation the Eclavdra therein has to the Eclavdra featured in G3 and the following modules. Is it possible that, once clan Eilserv's plans were undone, she switched her allegiance to Graz'zt in an attempt to regain some of her lost status? Was Graz'zt perhaps masquerading as teh Elder Elemental God all along? It's of course entirely possible that it's just artistic license on your part, but I do enjoy trying to suss out these sorts of apparent conflicts...
And, last question for this post, I promise. Obmi the dwarf in G3 is listed as being Chaotic Neutral in alignment. Surely that's a typo, yes? He's really Chaotic Evil?
My thanks for thirty some-odd years of entertainment.
