Gaming with Gygax

[grodog]

Dish, man! Where the were we? I've always wondered.

Check the thread @ KNIGHTS & KNAVES ALEHOUSE • View topic - Gygax Castle Greyhawk Map for the scoop, Henry (short answer: you were on level 3).

And have a good time at Garycon! One year I will be there.

Thanks, I shall: I almost didn't make it this year. Anytime you make it up there, let me know and I'll save a seat in whatever Castle Greyhawk game of mine you'd like

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I almost didn't make it this year.

Glad you did, looking forward to seeing you & everyone at GCIV!

Hearing Piratecat's account of Gary's dungeon was perhaps the high point of a fantastic FalCon experience. I've recently been fortunate enough to play with Michael Mornard, who was an original player in both Gygax and Arneson's group; fellow player Paul is collecting some of the stories here.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Bump. Just because everyone needs to read the first post today.

 

[Piratecat]

I was headed here to do exactly that - thanks!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

If I do it, it's not attention whoring!

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Just to keep Piratecat from attention whoring again. The things I do for that guy.

 

[GM_Chris]

Gygax really looked like an evil DM
There was a story about how he wrote tomb of horrors so that he could kill people's favourite characters. I think he requested the names and address of their GMs as well.

 

[Scott DeWar]

bump, for the high value of this thread!

 

[Rel]

Raising a glass to Gary tonight. These are memories that I'll carry with me all the rest of my days.

 

[Henry]

Raising a glass to Gary tonight. These are memories that I'll carry with me all the rest of my days.

Me too, bud. I was actually going to start a new thread about memories of Gary today, but saw this.

For the short time I knew him, I was most struck by how he genuinely enjoyed chatting with every gamer he came across. Man wasn't shy with his opinions, but he always seemed genuinely pleased to chew fat, even if he had completely different opinions.