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.

 

[dcas]

At the same time, my "New Year" begins in March, not January.

Ah! At last another person who celebrates Lady Day!

 

[DemLep]

Hello,

Let me start off by saying it is cool to see that you actually spend time anwsering peoples questions.

Now on to my question. I have researched about D&D for a while, a read much about how it got started and evoled into what it is. I heard it all started from two pages of rules for minitures and I was wondering if you still had them and what they were?

Thanks and Merry Christmas,
DemLep

 

[Jdvn1]

Hey there, Gary! Happy Holidays!

What traditions do you have this time of year? Are there any gifts you hoping on getting?

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Ah! At last another person who celebrates Lady Day!

Yuletide Greetings!

"Lady Day" is Billy Holiday in my book

Christmas cheer,
Gary

 

[mordelack]

Gary,

How you been sir? I have been trying to email you but all the messages are returning undelivered.

Were you able to get the package i sent via snail mail?

Kerry

 

[haakon1]

Regardless of where *your* faith is placed, have a Merry Christmastime anyway.
And whenever your calendar begins, Happy Gregorian New Year to you!

You'd better copyright that before Wal-Mart steals it for their ads!

Seriously, it's nice, so many happy returns of the . . . general time of year!

 

[haakon1]

In addition to the rust monster and the bulette the owl bear came from that pack of weird figurines I found and converted to the FRPG monster roster. There might have been another, but I can't recall all the critters in that mix

Christmas cheer,
Gary

Christmasy thoughts of plastic dinosaurs past . . .

Hmm, the owl bear looks like the plastic giant sloth I had, standing up in a sort of hugging position.

Thinking rust monster + plastic dinosaur makes me think of the one that was like a turtle, with a club for a tail. But I doubt I'm right on that one.

I'd be amazed if you can remember the specifics of all that!

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Gary,

How you been sir? I have been trying to email you but all the messages are returning undelivered.

Were you able to get the package i sent via snail mail?

Kerry

Christmas Blessings Kerry!

The book arrived safe and sound the other day. Are you emailing me at the proper addy? I got over 100 messages this AM :\

ggygax@genevaonline.com

Yuletide best,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Christmasy thoughts of plastic dinosaurs past . . .

Hmm, the owl bear looks like the plastic giant sloth I had, standing up in a sort of hugging position.

Thinking rust monster + plastic dinosaur makes me think of the one that was like a turtle, with a club for a tail. But I doubt I'm right on that one.

I'd be amazed if you can remember the specifics of all that!

Christmas Blessings!

there might have been something skin to an ankylosaurus in the pack of monsters. Blamed is I can remember

Yuletide best,
Gary

 

[haakon1]

Christmas Blessings!

there might have been something skin to an ankylosaurus in the pack of monsters. Blamed is I can remember

Yuletide best,
Gary

You're used to being blamed. I just had lunch with an old friend who was telling me when he was growing up and wanted to do D&D, he told his parents it was a storytelling and imagination game, about fighting evil, and they said, "You're sure it's not that evil devil game?" He said it wasn't, so they got it.

I wonder if the stegasaurus is in the MM? I'll have to go look. I'm sure there's no illustration of it, because that I'd remember.