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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Korgoth" data-source="post: 4597777" data-attributes="member: 49613">I'm taking a "wait-and-see" attitude on this one. Certainly Gail Gygax, in virtue of her standing as Gary's devoted wife and now bereaved widow, has earned a little slack. Few people could honestly claim to have been so devoted to Gary and facilitating Gary's pursuits.On the other hand, I suppose I have become a bit cynical, especially over the past year. So if a simple answer is not forthcoming to a foundationally basic question like "What system is Castle Zagyg going to be released for" then I calculate about a 95% chance that the answer is going to be something miserable that totally POs the existing fans. Hopefully that's an unscientific and erroneous calculation. But my gut feeling is that if it were an answer I was going to like, I would have gotten that answer by now.The worst case scenario is that Gygax Games releases CZ for LA in an ill-conceived attempt to circle the IP wagons, or for 4E under the tragically mistaken view that "Gary's slavish fans will buy it anyway, plus we'll score some of the new kids." Either way I think CZ would end up being a flop (I certainly wouldn't buy it, speaking purely for myself). I'd much rather it never be released than to have it mishandled... I'd rather always dream about how cool the Black Reservoir was than to see it and find it "meh".Still, the fact remains that Gail Gygax absolutely has the right, and moreso than anybody else in this particular regard, to be considered "innocent until proven guilty", to borrow a somewhat inapposite phrase. Even those of us who are used to seeing Gary kicked around by practically everybody can rest assured, given her status and reputation, that Gail won't deliberately mishandle Gary's literary legacy.** - For those who flame first and comprehend later, I'm speaking of the "literary legacy" as a separate issue from the IP. The matter of the IP is totally cut-and-dried: it belongs to Gail Gygax and she can do whatever she wants with it. Obviously the whole discussion makes no sense without drawing that distinction.</blockquote>

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