TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax

This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Sadly, Pbartender,

The pics failed to make it through, as you undoubtedly saw for yourself.

Ciao,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Ahh, Gary. When they made you they broke the mold.

Now, now!

Just because you are rusty there is no need to be slimy and smutty as well. What a blight is such phagocytic punning

Ciao,
Gary

 

[Pbartender]

Sadly, Pbartender,

The pics failed to make it through, as you undoubtedly saw for yourself.

Hrm... I can see them just fine. I'd linked to files attached to another thread -- that's spores to work.

Hold on, let me try something else...

EDIT: There, how's that? Better?

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Didn't load for me either.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Hrm... I can see them just fine. I'd linked to files attached to another thread -- that's spores to work.

Hold on, let me try something else...

Hooray!

That did it

BTW, that's a fitting ID badge, as I did take a couple of years of Ag classes in high school, andI worked on a couple of farms as a young teenager as well.

(If it were permitted here in Lake Geneva I would now have a flock of chickens too P

Cheerio,
Gary

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

wow gary you say you want to flock a chicken?
ken

 

[Col_Pladoh]

wow gary you say you want to flock a chicken?
ken

How are your sheep doing, Ken?


Gary

 

[Mycanid]

Ya know Gary ... I have been wondering about something on and off for some time now.

Who thought up the idea of the gelatinous cube? And was there a piece of fiction that sparked it? Or was it just ... jello? :\

 

[Mycanid]

Also ... I ... uhh ... guess I should apologize for catalysting so many bad mushroom puns.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Ya know Gary ... I have been wondering about something on and off for some time now.

Who thought up the idea of the gelatinous cube? And was there a piece of fiction that sparked it? Or was it just ... jello? :\

The 'Cube was my cration. It was inspired by the amoeba and gelatin. Perhaps I also had in the back of my mind the old EC Comisc SF story about Mars being covered in dormand gookum, that stuff having devoured all other life forms on the planet. When the crew returns to earth they are feted at a banquet, with a dessert course of strawberry Jello. "Good Grief! It;s dormant gookum!!!"

How I loved those Weird Science, Crypt of Horror, and all the rest of the EC Comics line


Gary