This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.
TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax
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This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Heh...
Anything based on Arthurian legend is bogus. Besides, the majority of the knights of that make-believe court were far from chaste, let alone celebate. Consider Sir Lancelot boinking the queen, the king begetting a bastard son by rape.
Cheers,
Gary
Anything based on Arthurian legend is bogus. Besides, the majority of the knights of that make-believe court were far from chaste, let alone celebate. Consider Sir Lancelot boinking the queen, the king begetting a bastard son by rape.
Cheers,
Gary
Frank Mentzer
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ScottyG said:
Well sure. Cash flow management adds flavor to any campaign. If you keep draining the characters' funds, it provides not only incentive for adventurous exploration but also a rationale for shoveling more to them.
FM
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Scotty,ScottyG said:
You have it. The multi-class character needs training in each class possessed when ready to rise in level.
cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Aptly put, amigoFrank Mentzer said:
Ciao,
Gary
Gentlegamer
Adventurer
Now you're talking!* Could such a transporter send PCs to Barsoom,** perhaps?Col_Pladoh said:Not very "slyly" after this exchange :\
Point of order: why would we want to sell WotC's adventure material when we could sell out own by having transporters send PCs to new modules we devise for that purpose?
Cheers,
Gary
*What if we discreetly email you for the "official" place to place the transporters for DUNGEONLAND and ISLE OF THE APE?
**Not named Barsoom, of course. A red planet full of hideous multi-armed green men will do.
Gentlegamer
Adventurer
Yes, but then Lancelot was a Cavalier, not a Paladin!Col_Pladoh said:
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
An other-world locale could be devised for a dungeon transporter, although they are usual for cursed scrolls only. Perhaps a strange red-soiled planet with about half the gravity of the normal world for PCs. There miight indeed be six-limded humanoids and beasts roaming about there... but then again, the GM can always create such places for his own campaign, just as my lads used to get sent off to a place a lot like the Carabas of the planet Tchai where aliens hunted humans therein who in turn were seeking valuable sequin-like deposits contained in rock geodes.Gentlegamer said:Now you're talking!* Could such a transporter send PCs to Barsoom,** perhaps?
*What if we discreetly email you for the "official" place to place the transporters for DUNGEONLAND and ISLE OF THE APE?
**Not named Barsoom, of course. A red planet full of hideous multi-armed green men will do.
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Heh,Gentlegamer said:Yes, but then Lancelot was a Cavalier, not a Paladin!
You are interpreting the fabulous to suit your veiw
Lancelot was a knight as was Galahad, the only potentially celibate knight of the make-believe round table. The only named paladins were the knights of Charlemagne such as Roland and Oiger.Cheers,
Gary
Gentlegamer
Adventurer
Merely giving my translation of certain literary characters into AD&D terms.Col_Pladoh said:Heh,
You are interpreting the fabulous to suit your veiw
I've always conceptualized the difference between Cavalier and Paladin as that between Lancelot and Galahad. It rather fits, don't you think?And of course, Ogier AKA Holger Carlson was the ONLY literary Paladin that exactly fits AD&D terms.
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Who can argue in regards your translating one bit of fantasy into another?...I did that a lot when i designed the game.Gentlegamer said:Merely giving my translation of certain literary characters into AD&D terms.
And of course, Ogier AKA Holger Carlson was the ONLY literary Paladin that exactly fits AD&D terms.
However, I would argue that Roland was a model of the paladin, more so than even Oiger.
Cheers,
Gary
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