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.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

You mean that no one would ever rent such things for short term projects?

Rent?

What pilgrim would rent a valuable magic item to a bunch of adventurers?

Heh,
Gary

 

[palleomortis]

Would you believe a gold one? that's so even though Mordenkainen has two red ones in his citadel's subterranean complex...

Cheers,
Gary

Nice, I don't think too little of them, But i just don't like the way they look with the wiskers. I prefer the solver with the whole majestic look thing going on.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

As for the best looking dragons, I must say that I have always thought the Oriental depictions are tops. Of course, the great interest in drakes arising from the D&D game has certainly brought to the fore many excellent illustrations of most imaginative and artistic sort.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[palleomortis]

What work do you do now?

 

[Col_Pladoh]

What work do you do now?

I would like to be semi-retired, do little work and mostly read, play games, and watch interesting TV programs, but...

I am doing a modicum of creative work, a few hours a week, a fair bit more business related labor, and a whole lot of correspondence and board postings. So I am kept occupied this some four hours a day, seven days per.

Cheerio,
Gary

 

[palleomortis]

Sounds good. Hey, if I could be occupied 4 hours a day HERE I would be livin' the life!

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Sounds good. Hey, if I could be occupied 4 hours a day HERE I would be livin' the life!

All is relative...

I enjoyed working 70 or more hours a week before the health problem. NMow I just run out of steam ag=fter a couple of hours at the keyboard.

Cheerio,
Gary

 

[palleomortis]

Health problem?

(Do you ever do signitures? Like on books and things of the sort?)

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Health problem?

(Do you ever do signitures? Like on books and things of the sort?)

Yes.

As for autographing, I do indeed have signing sessions at conventions--the Lake Geneva Game Convention at the end of July and the Canadian National Gaming Expo at the end of August.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[palleomortis]

Do you know of any conventions near OR?