TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax

Col_Pladoh · Aug 23, 2006

haakon1 said:
Ha! That's like how I play poker. Staying alive is good enough to make to the second last to die, most times. :\

I really don't like gambling, but playing poker with a group of friends and associates is enjoyable aslong as the stakes are such that even the big loser for the night is not out more than he would normally spend on a night's entertainment.

Cheers,
Gary

rossik · Aug 23, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
Somehow I don't believe that was done by the veteran OAD&D audience, for I have received far too many comments panning the Q1 module and it is worth noting that the rating was given for the module combining its predacessors, G 1-3 and D 1-3, not just Q1.

If the Abyss is a maze design on a towel, I am at a loss, completely overwhealmed

Cheers,
Gary

well, thats not my opinion, i just found it at wikipedia...eheheh :heh:

mr gygax, what do u think was the best adventure u wrote? would u change anything about it? do you think it would have the same impact now?

(oh, the email you posted have returned! gggax@genevaonline.com ....
i even tried variations, but it didnt work. maybe its full, or something.
if u like, i can post my email to you

)

Ron · Aug 23, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
Ah well,

I had what I consider a much more interesting plan for the conclusion of the G-D series, one in which the PC party could loose the Elder Elemental god or send him into deeper isolation, thus assisting Lolth to become more powerful. By very astute play, they could have thwarted the designs of both evil entities. The Demonweb Pits were indeed envisioned as mze like, but there were to be no machines therein.

Cheers,
Gary

Perhaps you could release such adventure, skipping references to WotC's IP, not much different from what your Castle Zagyg is. People will know what is about. I bet that even the panel that elected Queen of Spiders as the best adventure ever would buy it.

Col_Pladoh · Aug 23, 2006

rossik said:
well, thats not my opinion, i just found it at wikipedia...eheheh

No reflection on you, certainly.

mr gygax, what do u think was the best adventure u wrote? would u change anything about it? do you think it would have the same impact now?

Ask me which of my childred is my favorite...

Why on earth would I spend time with such pointless speculation?

(oh, the email you posted have returned! gggax@genevaonline.com ....
i even tried variations, but it didnt work. maybe its full, or something.
if u like, i can post my email to you )

The correct addy is:

ggygax@genevaonline.com

Cheers,
Gary

Col_Pladoh · Aug 23, 2006

Ron said:
Perhaps you could release such adventure, skipping references to WotC's IP, not much different from what your Castle Zagyg is. People will know what is about. I bet that even the panel that elected Queen of Spiders as the best adventure ever would buy it.

I could, but it isn't likely. Not much market potential for as OAD&D product, And I don't write for new D&D.

Cheers,
Gary

rossik · Aug 24, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
No reflection on you, certainly.

Ask me which of my childred is my favorite...

Why on earth would I spend time with such pointless speculation?

Cheers,
Gary

ow, i see....sorry about that

fusangite · Aug 24, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
Saint is not a term that is exclusive to the Christian religion, and St. Cuthbert was more of a joke than otherwise. Consider the advicacy of pounding sense into someone's head by dint of blows from a club.

Once again, Gary, I see intentionality where it might not have been. I have been assuming that you based a chunk of the cleric class's spell list on the miracles performed by St. Cuthbert in Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert. The Create Water, Flame Strike spells and various other seemed to indicate you were, at some point, deriving the cleric spell list from actual medieval miracles.

I do not advocate any use of actual religion in an RPG. Any references I have made to Arab-like civizilations do not include any hint of Islam in them. the same holds for Judaism and Christianity. As a matter of fact, I did not write Deities and Demigods, nor did I use it in my campaign.

This I'm very glad to hear; people focus on the Fiend Folio as the mistaken text in AD&D but I have to say that Deities and Demigods is the book that ultimately caused me to take a long sabbatical from AD&D in the mid-80s.

MerricB · Aug 24, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
As for the chief antagonist, it was meant to be Exlavdra on behlaf of the EEG, with the minions of Lolth, not the demoness per se., being second and a counterweight to the former as noted. The latter will fight against the Eilservs and tolerate for a time the presence of a PC party that is discommoding their foes.

Heh. My explanation of Q1 is that it's a plot by Eclavdra to kill or weaken Lolth. Send a party of foolish surface-dwellers against the demon-spider and see what happens. Weaken her enough and perhaps the EEG can then take control...

Of course, I don't accord Lolth status as a deity, seeing her as a malign figure who has lured many disaffected elves away from their true gods; she's definitely slayable by groups of great power and intelligence. (Even if foolish enough to be tricked by Eclavdra).

D3 was the first module I ever bought. The GD series remains as a series I've yet to run or play. It's on my list of things to do, but there are lots of interesting things happening in my current campaign that spawn more adventures, of course!

Cheers!

gideon_thorne · Aug 24, 2006

Col_Pladoh said:
Anyway, I ain't hard to recognize, and I'll likely be at the Troll Lord Games booth pretty often. I am told that they'll have a four-space island next year, so the booth shoould be fairly easy to locate.

Cheers,
Gary

And you'll have to put up with me and my folks as well.. bwah ah ah ah.

Col_Pladoh · Aug 24, 2006

rossik said:
ow, i see....sorry about that

Heh,

No need to apologise

If I didn't like something I wrote, I would have no business offering it for publication, having it in print.

The fact is I am essentially a pragmatist in regards to such matters as have passed. There is too much before to be looking back.

Cheers,
Gary

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