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]

Well, that IS what it's all about, Gary....

Not if you are a bow-legged chicken or a knock-kneed hen :\


Cheers,
Gary

 

[BOZ]

That is the depiction presented in the ToEE, of course, and later in MMII (IIRR).

unfortunately not. as far as i know, her only appearance before this recent Dragon article was in the module in which she first appeared. gamers have long memories.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

unfortunately not. as far as i know, her only appearance before this recent Dragon article was in the module in which she first appeared. gamers have long memories.

Well dang!

I MEANT to include the charming lady in a monsters tome, I swear

Cheers,
Gary

 

[dcas]

Re: the Chicken Dance

<Shudder!> :\

What more can be said?

No, 'tis true. I can't explain it, but the Polish folks around here love the chicken dance! It is sort of a polka, after all. It is embarrassing, but I can put up with it as long as I can walk to the Polish butcher to buy kielbasa.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Re: the Chicken Dance

No, 'tis true. I can't explain it, but the Polish folks around here love the chicken dance! It is sort of a polka, after all. It is embarrassing, but I can put up with it as long as I can walk to the Polish butcher to buy kielbasa.

Not even the best smoked kielbasa can make me view the chicken dance as acceptable behavior

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I suspect Otto the Mage was Polish...

 

[Col_Pladoh]

I suspect Otto the Mage was Polish...

Actually, I had Otto the Mage as a jolly Bavarian...as Kuntz is of German heritage

Cheers,
Gary

 

[StupidSmurf]

Not even the best smoked kielbasa can make me view the chicken dance as acceptable behavior

Cheers,
Gary

And that is why I consider the most horrific Christmas item I've ever seen to be "Chicken Dance Elmo".

 

[Col_Pladoh]

And that is why I consider the most horrific Christmas item I've ever seen to be "Chicken Dance Elmo".

I wonder if that company also does a "Cuddly Jason" and a "Snuggly Freddie"?


Gary

 

[StupidSmurf]

I wonder if that company also does a "Cuddly Jason" and a "Snuggly Freddie"?


Gary

Considering my wife's and my tastes towards horror, those two would actually not be so bad! Anyone who'd ever give my kids a Chicken Dance Elmo would get the rare chance of seeing me in action, swinging a baseball bat. And I'd destroy the doll too!