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 said:
Oh please is right!...
Col_Pladoh said:Don't get up on a high horse here, dude
No horses, here, Gary (previous puns hotwithstanding). I put smiley faces at the end, and everything!
Col_Pladoh said:
Only to you...
Destroying Eggsburgh, yes. Destroying the Temple of "Elemental Evil", or Tomb of Horrors? No. If it had been done the first time, the current evils would've had to occupy some other place. After the PCs had defeated the evils, destruction of their old haunts would be logical, and wise.
But then, I'm sure it comes as no surprise that we don't agree!
<---(MORE Smiley faces!_
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Steverooo said:
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Smiling high horses are nonetheless high horses.
I call 'em as I see 'em
As it should be in a Q&A session with...me.
It depends on the desires of the DM in regards to anything destroyed, and if the DM regards the object of would-be destruction as instrumental to his campaign, then such demolition is out of the question
Probably not as much as it might appear on the surface, for we are talking about two different things by and largeBut then, I'm sure it comes as no surprise that we don't agree!
Cheers,
Gary
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Col_Pladoh said:
While I've never seen the child impersonation myself, I did see someone impersonate an Adult giant before! In a North Carolina ENWorld Gameday, the party facing the Steading killed a giant at the door by stealth, then used an Enlarge spell and the giant's furs to have one of the burliest party members impersonate a grown hill giant. (That spell lasts a heck of a long time in 1E!) He used this ruse to both lead and corral the hill giant kids (where they were attacked and killed), and to approach an amorous hill giant subchief's woman (drunk and half-asleep in the bed anyway) so he could pull a Lizzie Borden on her. Nasty, but definitely different.
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Col_Pladoh said:
What's even worse is destruction by the publisher of the campaign base that the PC's very well could have succeeded in saving . . .
What I have in mind is the 2E version of Greyhawk, "From the Ashes", in which it was assumed the Giants of G123 succeeded in conquering and massacring Sterich and Geoff. Our party killed Lloth and WON the war to save our homelands -- took us two years of gaming, but we did it, the last mission before we retired our few surviving characters and broke up as a gaming group. I'm still pissed at TSR 13 years later for saying we failed. Orc-heads!
Lesson: Never, ever "update" a campaign setting.
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
It is always amusing and informative to learn how players use their ingenuity to accomplish missionsHenry said:While I've never seen the child impersonation myself, I did see someone impersonate an Adult giant before! In a North Carolina ENWorld Gameday, the party facing the Steading killed a giant at the door by stealth, then used an Enlarge spell and the giant's furs to have one of the burliest party members impersonate a grown hill giant. (That spell lasts a heck of a long time in 1E!) He used this ruse to both lead and corral the hill giant kids (where they were attacked and killed), and to approach an amorous hill giant subchief's woman (drunk and half-asleep in the bed anyway) so he could pull a Lizzie Borden on her. Nasty, but definitely different.
Mordenkainen taught all of his apprentices the enlarge spell for such possibility...and to give them a healing sans cleric
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
So many an OAD&Der has assured mehaakon1 said:You didn't miss much.
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
That is the result of someone in authority at the publisher not understanding the material, not caring, and just bulling ahead regardless of the audience.haakon1 said:What's even worse is destruction by the publisher of the campaign base that the PC's very well could have succeeded in saving . . .
What I have in mind is the 2E version of Greyhawk, "From the Ashes", in which it was assumed the Giants of G123 succeeded in conquering and massacring Sterich and Geoff. Our party killed Lloth and WON the war to save our homelands -- took us two years of gaming, but we did it, the last mission before we retired our few surviving characters and broke up as a gaming group. I'm still pissed at TSR 13 years later for saying we failed. Orc-heads!
Lesson: Never, ever "update" a campaign setting.
The World of Greyhawk setting was crafted to allow for individualization by DMs, of course, and so was as non-specific and vague in places where the DM was likely to have created his own material. I did intend to expand the world and do some area specifric modules--mostly at the edges of the Flanaess, but that wasn't to be...
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh said:
Too bad. While I didn't care much for most of the Gord the Rogue series, the parts about the Sea of Dust/Death were my favorites. I would have loved to have seen more on the surrounding areas, and the "Unknown West".
And just because you see a horse, doesn't mean it exists... Maybe you've just been visiting John & Jack too much, again!
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