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Well, Gary, the flakey crust and the Bordeaux sound delicious! Other than that... Heh ;) Gray Mouser

Hey Gary, a couple things here. First, my question: when PC's in your campaign got to higher levels and started setting up strongholds did they ever engage in large-scale conflicts (viz., fielding armies against their foes)? If they did was such conflict resolved using Chainmail or did you wing...

Not to start a gripe session or anything, Gary, but do you mean that the revisions in 2e were doneto basically make things in AD&D less Gygaxian? If that's the case then there was a great deal of success in that regard (for the worse, imho). Additionally, you certainly seem to be correct...

Boy, Colonel, this is an extremely good insight. I was one of those people who went along with the conversion to 2e and DM'ed a campaign for a while. Some of the changes in the game mechanics I liked, but more often then not they fell into two categories: 1) they revised something in the game...

Hey Gary, thanks for the answer to my query. Just to let you know, I found a copy of The Anubis Murders in a used bookstore back in (maybe) 1995. A great read! I had always been interested in ancient Egypt when I was a kid and found the novel quite good. Gray Mouser

Heh, OK, last question for the night :) With all the talk about Kobalds recently, I got to wondering if you specifically visualized them as dog-like. The picture in the monster manual appears that way, but I don't recall it being specified as such. The kobalds in The Keep on the Borderlands...

Hey Gary, just thought of another question for you :) With the popularity of late of the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies which of your 1e modules would you most like to have made into a Fantasy/Sword and Sorcery movie? (BTW, as long as we're engaging in a little wishful thinking just...

Hey Gary, I have a question regarding the playtesting of the G and D series modules. Did you run these modules as part of your campaign or was it a separate set of adventures that didn't impact the Greyhawk campaign in any substantial way? Also, since Q1 was actually not of your original...

Heh, sorry, no luck. I am pretty short, however, at least that's what people who are abnoramally tall tell me and used to do a bit of fencing :) It's funny though, Lords of Quarmal is probably my favorite Gray Mouser and Fafhrd story and was partially written by Fischer (he's responsible for...

Hmmm, well if he ever needs a French-English translator let me know. I'm a little slow but am fairly accurate. Gray Mouser

Hey Gary, here's my real question for the day ;) I was wondering if the unique monsters that showed up in some of your monsters were ever sprung on your hapless players outside of their original settings. I am thinking primarily of the Drow, Kuo-Toa, Svirfneblin, and even the beasties from...

Hey Colonel, it's good to see you back on the Q&A thread! I was just perusing the other threads of the forum and there's a "Write in the style of Gygax" contest going on. If you want to try your hand at rewriting a couple of 3e feats in the style of the originator of the game you might want to...

LOL! That's about the funniest thing I have heard in a loooong time. BTW, anyone know if EGG is still doing a Q&A thread here? Gray Mouser

... the Gary Gygax Q&A thread? I know EGG's health was pretty bad for a while but I have heard he's recovered somewhat. Is there any plans for him doing another Q&A thread here again? Thanks in advance. Gray Mouser

This is too bad, imo. I've been gaming since the late 1970s and part of the fun was learning new systems. It is especially interesting being able to compare and contrast different rule sets to see how different people handled similar situations. My experience with d20 is, admittedly, limited...

No support means that I can't remember the last time a new 1e product was put out. With the advent of 2e in the late 80s things weren't so bad because there was a lot of overlap between the rule sets. With 3e and now 3.5? Forget it. Are there a lot of 1e supplements? Sure. And you can track...

Yes, and the 1e crowd seems to be the primary target audience for C&C. However, by saying "if I wanted to play 1ed I would" you miss the point that it's an OOP game with no support apart from some fan sites on the internet. Others have said this already, C&C seems to not be d20 compatible by...

Actually, from the description given above, C&C sounds a lot like the Moldavay edition of Basic D&D - which was pretty rules light - along with some 1e classes added in. Frankly, I am looking forward to the advent of C&C, and even more to Castle Zagyg! Gray Mouser

Colonel, I recently had the opportunity to get all the OD&D books in pdf format! (Yee-ha!, btw. That really takes me back!). In these books I noticed that you use the Lawful-Neutral-Chaotic alignment system. I've heard from other people that when you first began designing AD&D (circa the MM)...

Ahh, just another reason for me to complete my set of the books, however. I knew there had to be a reason just couldn't think of what it was. I'll have to peruse amazon.com and see what I can scare up. Thanks again! Gray Mouser