Missed the original post, Henry,Henry said:ING (I'm not Gary), but I've instead heard that "Wee Jas" is a (Gaelic?) way of saying "little Janice," rather than the "ouija" story. Only Gary can answer with certainty.
Col_Pladoh said:Ahem!
As a descendant or Noah Webster on my maternal, maternal side of the family I must object to that baseless assertion. Curb such statements, as the question of proper spelling is in the gray area. I do believe America English has a larger number of speakers than any other form, ay?
Gary
I was just joking around! I thought the goofy little face at the end of my statement cleared that up :\ . No harm or offense was intended, I apologise profusely to any who were directly or indirectly hurt by my post.
Col_Pladoh said:
John Drake said:Ah, sorry Gary and Nathan P. Mahney,
before signing off didn't tip my hand, show that I was just being silly?
Right-O Colonel!ColonelHardisson said:
LoL, I didn't notice it til it was too lateCol_Pladoh said:
And my
Cheers,
Gary
! Ah well, as long as we're all clear!
Sure thing!John Drake said:LoL, I didn't notice it til it was too late
As I've remarked before, I must be the only person who like FTA. It lead to a lot of adventuring possibilities, particularly with Iuz's empire across the north Flanaesses, Rary setting up shop in the Bright Desert with Robilar, and the insanity of the remnants of the Great Kingdom threatening all.haakon1 said:None of which is THAT terrible, but in general FTA is a rotten as a week old fish in August. And that's about the kindest thing you'll ever hear me say about it.
Rant mode, activated . . .
Basically, Gary and crew wrote a great setting based on their personal campaign in Lake Geneva, WI . . . suits kicked out Gary and took over TSR, and produced said setting, which was based on poor-mans Risk-type game set on the Greyhawk map called "Greyhawk Wars". "Wars" took pretty much the names of countries and alignments, but not a decent read through of the original WOG material . . .
For some reason, a play through of the "Wars" game was used as the basis for the FTA setting, which is all about a war between good and evil, and evil forces romping around smiting countries in such a way that some pretty cool parts of the map are officially "gone" and replaced by vague no-mans-lands which are useless for adventuring (nothing to save, and nobody can really go there).
It was k-rad kewl to mess up Gary's setting . . . the best illustration of this is the cover illustrations of the respective editions.
WOG: Knights riding out from a castle. Implying PC's on a noble quest, related to a medieval land of some type.
FTA: Undead riding skeleton horses, riding away from a burning castle. Kewl! PC's no longer matter. Certainly, the posssibility of the PCs having won the big Against the Giants supermodule was never ever considered -- the setting just says the PC's must have failed, because the giants conquered everything they wanted.
Rant mode, deactivated . . .
The new management is better, but unfortuntely, they did not burn the FTAness from Greyhawk. The stink lingers in parts of the setting still.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
