TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax

Rel · Nov 6, 2002

RSKennan said:
What if someone were willing to fund the trip (I don't have the cash) in exchange for filming it as a documentary. When I was reading the above post, I couldn't help but think what a great documentary it would make! It would be great, the whole family could go... I'm just daydreaming here.

I've gotta say that I think this is a fantastic idea. Seriously. I would love to watch such a documentary and it could actually be a great way to promote our hobby.

I wonder if anybody here at the boards has any such connections? I'm tempted to start a new thread to find out. But I'll wait for a bit more confirmation from you, Gary, before I do anything like that.

It is really just a pipe dream at the moment, but I really do think it could be a valid idea in some form or fashion.

Col_Pladoh · Nov 6, 2002

A couple of caveats:

There have been a lot of dicumentary productions done in the past couple of years, and there's not likely much chance of actually getting another aired so as to recoup expense, let alone make any return.

Second, any gaming done for such a production will have to be scripted, the players selected for their appearance and acting ability. Not much of a game coming from that....

Cheerio,
Gary

Clangador · Nov 6, 2002

Col_Pladoh said:
That's a horse of a different color, and sure. Such an arrangement could work. I have actually spend a three-day weekend DMins (OAD&D) for a group that flew me out and put me up at a motel with a suite where we played. It took me about two weeks to set up the adventure, and I lucked out. They finished it on Sunday night around eight o'clock

Cheers,
Gary

That is sweet. You should start a business doing that.

So, were these guys big fans of yours or what?

Col_Pladoh · Nov 6, 2002

Clangador said:
That is sweet. You should start a business doing that. So, were these guys big fans of yours or what?

That would be a really demanding sort of business, amigo. I could make maybe one or two sessions a month. Figuring 1.5, that would gross something like $4,500 a month, a good enough income for fun work, but difficult to maintain the creative demands.

The group that had me out to DM for them were indeed big fans, all with successful careers, and they spread the cost over eight persons, as I recall the group size. Thus they satisfied a dream they had held from the late 1970s, and we all had a great time in the process

Don't think I could manage doing that on a regular basis, though.

Cheerio,
Gary

RSKennan · Nov 6, 2002

If not a documentary, would you play yourself in a low budget movie? The scenario with the eight friends sounds like the makings of a good movie. It would of course,be about more than D&D, like that movie they made a few years back about the Star Trek fans who befriended William Shatner. Please Gary, let me know if this line of discussion is annoying you, I don't want to do that.

Col_Pladoh · Nov 7, 2002

RSKennan said:
If not a documentary, would you play yourself in a low budget movie? The scenario with the eight friends sounds like the makings of a good movie. It would of course,be about more than D&D, like that movie they made a few years back about the Star Trek fans who befriended William Shatner. Please Gary, let me know if this line of discussion is annoying you, I don't want to do that.

Can't say about participating in any such production without knowing details, seeing a script

I an not exactly taken by the idea od playing myself, I confess.

Cheers,
Gary

ranix65 · Nov 7, 2002

Actually, that's very funny somebody should ask about a low-budget movie, I'm writing one, called Lord of the Haze, basically a retelling of the LoTR Trilogy, but set in New Jersey, and if it ever gets picked up, I wanted to try to get Gary Gygax to cameo as a Dwarf Lord(alongside Kevin Smith and either my tatoo artist Turin or my friend Christina).

How about it Gary, if I ever get it made, wanna play a dwarf lord?

Flexor the Mighty! · Nov 7, 2002

Gary!

What did you intend the main religion of Veluna to be? Rao or Cuthbert. I always thought it was Cuthbert, but in the new books it's listed as Rao. I've been running it as a bastion of the faithfull of Cuthbert myself.

I was reading a chat transcript you did a while back. You were discussing Tsojcanth and how he imprisoned the Avatar of Tharizdun years back. You said that he was a mage of great power, of which one is only born every few hundred years. Is that how Mordenkainen would be described. And epic mage of the sort that in only seen once in a lifetime?

alsih2o · Nov 7, 2002

Col_Pladoh said:
I an not exactly taken by the idea od playing myself, I confess.

fanboy question of the week, in the movie based on the creation of the game (yeah, right!) who would you have play you?

Col_Pladoh · Nov 7, 2002

ranix65 said:
How about it Gary, if I ever get it made, wanna play a dwarf lord?

Heh, and why not? Of course I'd want to mug the camera like the guy in the D&D movie did

Gary

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