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
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.
airwalkrr
Adventurer
Random musing I thought I'd share. Was just reading through the AD&D DMG (1e) and noticed the following on page 63 in the Combat section: "It is common for player characters to attack first, parley afterwards. It is recommended that you devise encounters which penalize such action so as to encourage parleying attempts -- which will usually be fruitless, of course!"
This is exactly the kind of evil DM stuff that I thought made AD&D great and one of the things that makes 3e not so much fun. This is coming from someone whose experience is 90% as a DM of course so your mileage may vary. But I enjoy games where the PCs always face an uphill battle. It keeps the game challenging and unexpected, which I think is healthy.
This is exactly the kind of evil DM stuff that I thought made AD&D great and one of the things that makes 3e not so much fun. This is coming from someone whose experience is 90% as a DM of course so your mileage may vary. But I enjoy games where the PCs always face an uphill battle. It keeps the game challenging and unexpected, which I think is healthy.
Col_Pladoh said:It is evident you have not played Metamorphosis Alpha a lot. The fungi there regularly turn characters into mush, and the crystals are worseLast Thursday vile wolfoids masquerading as medicos devoured one of our mutant human characters before our very eyes
More than one of those monsters died for doing that, and the Vigilists are far from being through exacting reveng for such behavior![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Cheers,
Gary
I haven't played Metamorphosis Alpha at all, but it is on my very long "to do" list!
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Thanks for the complimentGeoffrey said:I'm glad you just made them up, otherwise my knowledge of mythology and weird literature would have been less than I think it is.
I give you a lot of credit, Gary, for being able to think of evocative names that by themselves spur one's imagination. I especially like the names of the powerful magic items you mention as being held by the various countries in your Epic of Aerth.
I confess that I spent many a year researching and writing the Epic of Aerth world setting--about three years in fact. That gave me plenty of time to create interesting and evocative names. It is heartening that the effort is appreciated.
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Heh...LcKedovan said:Q: What cocktail?
heheh.
-Will
We were out of New Glarus India Pale Ale, I was too lazy to want to go out and get more, so I had a large gin & tonic with a wedge of lemon squeezed into it. I'll be heading out later today to get some ale or beer to quaff during the Bears game this evening
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
The most obvious sort is the PC that had wretched stats to begin with and in the course of adventuring lost even more due primarily to chance, not bad play.airwalkrr said:
I do indeed find over-powered and badly played PCs annoying, so if the player with such a character foolishly allows his PC to get into a situation where loss of potent magic itesm, levels, and/or life can occur, the dice are rolled in the open; whatever occurs from the result syands without and "judge fudge" to prevent it.
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
Heh, Airwalker,airwalkrr said:
You will get no argumant from me in this regard
BTW, the rare occassion when conversing first and attacking later is what needs be done keeps the players on their mental toes.
Cheers,
Gary
Col_Pladoh
Gary Gygax
It is a bear when one wants to play a particular RPG and there is no GM around to provide such an opportunity. I too can think of a fair number of RPGS I'd very much like to try, but no local gamer has a campaign going.dorentir said:
My group and I are fortunate that Jim Ward is on hand to entertain us with his excellent MA game campaign whenever I am burned out from over-play of the GM's role. By all means get into some MA game play if tou enjoy truly exotic, surreal science fantasy with a deadly environment.
Cheers,
Gary
taliesin15
First Post
Mr. Gygax:
Any thoughts on where Oozes come from? Especially Grey Ooze and Gelatinous Cubes--are these supposed to originate from the experiments of crazy evil wizards, or from Demons/Devils?
Any thoughts on where Oozes come from? Especially Grey Ooze and Gelatinous Cubes--are these supposed to originate from the experiments of crazy evil wizards, or from Demons/Devils?
Col_Pladoh said:
Well, to judge by how much fun I have had with the old Gamma World Game, I should probably move "Metamorphosis Alpha" up a few notches on my gaming "to do" list. Sadly, almost everyone I know wants to play d20 games rather than older RPGs. I'll have to scour up a copy on ebay maybe.
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