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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mflayermonk" data-source="post: 6793214" data-attributes="member: 54007">This is an excerpt from the podcast Imaginary Worlds, where Paul La Farge talks about the time he sat down and played a game of D&D with Gygax.Starts around 24:35 and is about 3 minutes long.<a href="https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/rolling-the-twenty-sided-dice" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/emolinsky/rolling-the-twenty-sided-dice</a>Interviewer is Eric Molinsky (EM)Guest is Paul La Farge (PLF)EM: "After the interview was over, Gary Gygax offered to DM a game with Paul and his colleague." PLF: "He came out of the wargaming world which was very much strategy-based, and he (Gygax) played D&D as if it were a wargame. He posed problems to the players and there were better solutions and worse solutions and he had very little compunction about killing characters off if the occasion warranted.And his thought was if you play smart you are going to win and if you don't you're very likely going to lose, and now let's sit down and see how you play."EM: "But it sounds like you were slightly disappointed a little bit in terms of you really were...were you more interested in the character?"PLF: "No, it was great because if as a kid if someone had waved their magic wand over me when I was eleven years old and said poof you are in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and here is Gary Gygax and he is running a game of D&D,  here is your seat at the table...go. Which actually would have been possible because he loved to Dungeon Master and he ran games at conventions.But if it had happened then I would have been disappointed because I would have lost... I wouldn't have gotten into the problem solving aspect of it, and there wouldn't have been room for the part I liked and I would have felt frustrated.But to meet him in the context of doing this as a grown-up, it was kind of perfect because it was as if Gary were saying 'hey this is about reality now, here's a problem, see if you can solve it'. You don't get into the theatrics of being an elf because who cares about the theatrics of being an elf...you're not an elf."</blockquote>

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