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.

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

Slightly revised. I wanted to remove all the unnecessary violence and replace it with negotiation, acceptance of diversity, Gord hiring lawyers to avoid legal troubles, and peace at any price

Cheers,
Gary

Neville Chamberlain would be proud of you!

 

[SuStel]

My PCs and their companions are always seeking to clean subterranean places...of valuables as well as those creatures that think to guard them

Now, now. We don't call them "creatures." We call them "persons of differing genetics."

 

[Hypersmurf]

Nope!

That's the copyright of either WotC or Clyde's estate. The trolls are having a new one done even as I write this.

Estate?! He isn't dead, is he?

-Hyp.

 

[haakon1]

That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "dungeon clean-up crew!"

Long ago, I had a dungeon in an old mine. At the mine entrance, the local authorities had put up a sign saying that the mine was unsafe and entry was prohibited.

 

[dcas]

Estate?! He isn't dead, is he?

Not according to his web site.

It appears that the cover of Saga of Old City is copyright WOTC:
http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/saga_of_old_city.html

 

[wildwood72]

Not according to his web site.

It appears that the cover of Saga of Old City is copyright WOTC:
http://www.clydecaldwell.com/large_images/saga_of_old_city.html

*nod* The art (or pieces of it, at any rate) were re-used by TSR in several products, most notably as the art for more Spellfire card game cards than you might think possible (Gord was used as an image of a hero, the chariot for a spell, the green dragon as a monster card, unknown dragon rider/Robliar? was enlarged and used as another champion, etc. - I think 7 or 8 cards were illustrated from that 1 painting). The same was done to the cover art of Artifact of Evil (most notably, the blue glow around the Cataboligne demon was used as the illustration for a faerie fire spell card, IIRC).

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Neville Chamberlain would be proud of you!

Why Why thank you!

His spirit is alive and flourishing right here in the USA today


Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Now, now. We don't call them "creatures." We call them "persons of differing genetics."

Sotty, I lost my head.


Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Estate?! He isn't dead, is he?

-Hyp.

Noppers, although sadly two of his fellow artists that worked at TSR have passed on. What made me add that I can not say

Cheers,
Gary

 

[gideon_thorne]

Noppers, although sadly two of his fellow artists that worked at TSR have passed on. What made me add that I can not say

Cheers,
Gary

Because they were your friends? And its always a splendid tribute to remember ones friends kindly. ^_^