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Maybe IDW can commission a mini-series with Jeff Grubb to tie up the loose ends, if demand was high enough and WoTC were willing. Or, just somebody write to Jeff Grubb and ask him for specifics about the characters.

Thanks for replying. I guess my gripe about art came from what I've seen as a recent trend. There are a lot more comic labels out there but it seems the art talent pool has shrunk a bit. The last gaming comic I got was Monte Cook's Ptolus, and (like Monte himself) I was disappointed when the...

Terminology, not based on Lawsuit, only a change of the game name. Gary's never thought that the terms hp, AC, character, etc., have to be an RPG standard, just a D&D standard. He actually likes to reinvent himself a lot. As far as the lawsuit goes, this is text from the actual case...

Gail Gygax just did a podcast with some updates. Episode 127 - Gail Gygax | Neverwinter Nights Podcast

The one other thing I didn't report is it is being moved from Thursdays to Fridays.

Well, the CW gave a synopsis of the Season Six Status Quo:

I think this would be a perfect Series ending. If I was going to do a Season 6, I'd just focus on Monsters of the Week, AND what I would do is fill in gaps in Seasons 1-4. I mean, really, you could have a whole season of "untold stories" that took place before Lucifer's rising, and it would...

Part of the problem is the use of modern imaging techniques like Photoshop can make it way too easy to do "trace-style" art. Artists have used models and references for decades, but there's a lot of difference between say, the late Frank Frazetta or some of the big name artists from the TSR art...

I certainly wouldn't call Greyhawk or much of the original D&D Mythology "shallow", nor would I call it Superficial, and I certainly wouldn't call Gary's ideas jejune. To be honest, a lot of the "well thought out" stuff was coming, but as D&D grew organically, it was hard to present a top-down...

I do wonder about that. I have to wonder if the more anticipation there is for a product the more disappointing it would be. I told Gary before he died that I hoped CZ wouldn't be consider equivalent to the "Giant Rat of Sumatra", which should be familiar to 1e MM fans. That is a referenced...

The big problem I see is WoTC making short term decisions over long term ones. This is based on several things they did. They sell off GenCon, then realize they want a Con, so they make Winter Fantasy the official one for D&D. They spin off Dragon and Dungeon licensed to Paizo, then they...

Frank Frazetta Interview « The Comics Journal Full Interview from 1994 by Gary Groth for TCJ

Exactly, the "snafu" was, for lack of a better term, the "orientation and training", so to speak. It was good somebody stepped up to the plate but bad because it took time, as Just to clarify, AFAIK Gail is not using any IP to be sold to fund the memorial. All the memorial fund stuff is...

Just a correction, it wasn't "easier to do" under the OGL, as many or most TSR employees got it through that method. Warren Spector came from Toon and SJG, Monte Cook from Rolemaster, many others via Dragon submissions or other industry work. So this has always been true, and will always be...

Gygax wrote three novels featuring Magister Setne Imhotep, which were all reprinted by Paizo these last few years. It could be good inspiration how a mage might be a detective. One thing to remember though is that watch or police in a classic fantasy world are not like Modern Cops--for...

Wouldn't a regular spreadsheet with macros and formulae help?

Well, 4e GSL is definitely not the OGL, so much so that most of the 3pp ended their relationships with WoTC by not going 4e. I think others will agree that the GSL is not an "open" license by any means. Licensing has ALWAYS existed, since Judges Guild licensed D&D. But there were always...

The key thing is, the OGL style of licensing game property is still something brand new, and like anything new, we don't know how well it will work both short and long term. Ryan was most likely inspired by Open Source software licenses, but what might work for software (because its so complex...

Considering the fact that most nations support WIPO and seeing the economic costs happening because of some corporate stupidity (newspapers are erecting paywalls when they should never have given away their content in the first place, which a lot of players did in the dot com boom thinking...

If the OGL was truly economically beneficial to WoTC, I doubt they would have dropped it. I mean, they are the best to know, and have access to their own accounting research, as well as marketing research. And if the OGL was really the superior way to publish, you would have seen a lot more...