I think we understand this, I know I do. I also understand that Castle Zagyg was finally coming out, being well done, and being profitable, and then they were pulled. Why? I deserve to know that. Why do I have to wait even longer? Will whatever they do next make my current CZ purchases less viable? Will they do new versions of what I have making it necessary for me to buy the new versions if I wish for completeness?
I have a very legitimate reason for wanting to know, grieving widow or not. She's "in the business" now, time to answer to her customers. She has made decisions, so she can explain them, let us know her general plans, let us know if we can support them or not. Keeping me in the dark just angers me and makes me less likely to support anything she does, and I know I am not alone in this. Far from it.
All she has to do is say, "I desire to have Mongoose publish our work under their Flaming Cobra imprint. I am doing this because Mongoose has proven to me to have better market distribution and therefore substantially higher sales than TLG is able to achieve. We own all releases of CZ so far, so they will be released via our Flaming Cobra imprint as hardbacks. (or, Since we don't own all the previously released material we will be doing our own versions for the sake of completeness under one license/imprint.) We hope to have our first Flaming Cobra release available for Gencon 09 (Or Christmas 09, or Summer 2010, whatever).
Thats all she has to do to satisfy me, at least. Grieving widow or not, if she wants to run a business, then she has to run it. Since I have invested over $100.00 into the CZ line I am most definitely owed an explanation. If I am not given one I feel no need to support any new endevours. I already own Gary Gygax's CAstle Zagyg. The original. The one he actually worked on. Anything Gail does is a pale imitation. An interpretation of his notes. She replaced the only person who knew exactly what Gary wanted done.
So if she wants to convince me she is doing Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg I want to know what she is doing to ensure I am getting as close to the original as possible. Something I have a hard time believing can be done since she replaced the only person who worked closely with Gary on this project. Who heard all the verbal information that was never written down in notes. Who was fully indoctrinated on Gary's vision for this product.
I am interested in Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg, not a second hand interpretation from his notes. So I want to know how Gail thinks they are going to do this with Gary and Jeff gone. As it looks now they may as well as have anyone write it and call it Castle Zagyg, but it sure isn't going to be Gary's. I would rather just buy a copy of Gary's notes and make my own interpretation. I'm certainly not interested in someone elses. At least with Jeff on the project I knew someone was doing it after having Gary's direct guidance for a few years. Now that is gone too.
