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.

 

[StupidSmurf]

But can one change them in mid-stream?


Gary

Well, as they say, you can lead a horse to water, but if you can get it to float on its back, then you're REALLY onto something!

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Well, as they say, you can lead a horse to water, but if you can get it to float on its back, then you're REALLY onto something!

My seahorse does that a lot

Cheerio,
Gary

 

[StupidSmurf]

Indeed! And all gamers are undoubtedly pleased that that was and is the case

Cheers,
Gary

My favorite T-shirt: "I may grow old, but I'll never grow up".
I'd still be wearing it to cons, but my teenage son stole it. So instead I wear my Origins 78 T-shirt and watch other gamers go "What the heck is THAT!?!?"

 

[Col_Pladoh]

My favorite T-shirt: "I may grow old, but I'll never grow up".
I'd still be wearing it to cons, but my teenage son stole it. So instead I wear my Origins 78 T-shirt and watch other gamers go "What the heck is THAT!?!?"

Good show!

Sadly I am not able to fit into my D&D "Come visit my dungeon" T-shirt these days, but I have it hidden away from son Alex...who has purloined my Jane's Bar T-shirt over my loud protests :\

Cheers,
Gary

 

[StupidSmurf]

Good show!

Sadly I am not able to fit into my D&D "Come visit my dungeon" T-shirt these days, but I have it hidden away from son Alex...who has purloined my Jane's Bar T-shirt over my loud protests :\

Cheers,
Gary

Yes, Origins 78 (I had wondered why they didn't just call it Origins IV) was a riot, although it was during the days when I was a heavy-duty wargamer, setting up my tent on Avalon Hill, and listening to the grizzled veteran wargamers complain about "Those rezzin-frezzin roleplaying gamers, messing up the convention!"

As opposed to years later, where the grizzled veteran roleplaying gamers complained about "Those rezzin-frezzin card game players, messing up the convention!"

Et cetera, et cetera

 

[Clangador]

My seahorse does that a lot

Cheerio,
Gary

But can you ride it?

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Yes, Origins 78 (I had wondered why they didn't just call it Origins IV) was a riot, although it was during the days when I was a heavy-duty wargamer, setting up my tent on Avalon Hill, and listening to the grizzled veteran wargamers complain about "Those rezzin-frezzin roleplaying gamers, messing up the convention!"

As opposed to years later, where the grizzled veteran roleplaying gamers complained about "Those rezzin-frezzin card game players, messing up the convention!"

Et cetera, et cetera

Heh!

As I recall I made Origins I through III, but then attended no further of them.

As an avid board wargamer and military miniatures buff too, I could never understand the provincialism of others complaining about one form of play or another.

I recall an RPGer looking at me in shock when I was discovered in the basement of a MDG con site playing Napoleonic miniatures rather than D&D One of the former LGTSA members quit and wouldn't speak to me because of the Chainmail Fantasy Supplement games I used to run, and the early rap on GenCon was that it was all miniatures with little board wargaming.

Cheerio,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

But can you ride it?

Yes indeed, but no matter how I nag it doesn't have the horse-sense to obey. Nonetheless I never let up on it.


Gary

 

[francisca]

Yes indeed, but no matter how I nag it doesn't have the horse-sense to obey. Nonetheless I never let up on it.


Gary

I would give a slap on the haunches, and send it on it's mare-ey way then. Sorry to saddle you with such low-grade punishment.

 

[gideon_thorne]

Ode to these quality horse puns few, methinks they are fit for glue...