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.

 

[Laurel Wolf]

invite to Gary

Hi Gary, My Husband and I were just reading this thread and saw that you live in Lake Genevia. We Live in Antioch and play every Friday night from 7 to Midnightish. We would love for you to join us some time. My Husband has been a gamer for over 20 years and I just started to play. I would love to have an opportunity to be able to talk to the creator of D & D just as I am starting to play. If you could make it on November 11th that is my birthday and I am making a Mexican Feast for everyone it would be a great present to have you join us if you can.

Thanks for such a great game that my husband and I enjoy together.

Laurel Wolf

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

2,000th reply!

Gary, what could the original Magic Missile - as you conceived of it - do to non-living objects, if anything?

 

[ghul]

Hi Gary, My Husband and I were just reading this thread and saw that you live in Lake Genevia. We Live in Antioch and play every Friday night from 7 to Midnightish. We would love for you to join us some time. My Husband has been a gamer for over 20 years and I just started to play. I would love to have an opportunity to be able to talk to the creator of D & D just as I am starting to play. If you could make it on November 11th that is my birthday and I am making a Mexican Feast for everyone it would be a great present to have you join us if you can.

Thanks for such a great game that my husband and I enjoy together.

Laurel Wolf

Man, I could picture it now. Watching out my window, awaiting the arrival none other than Gary Gygax for night of gaming a Mexican feasting. And here comes, EGG, pulling into your driveway, gets out of his car with a bottle of scotch in one hand and bag of books and dice in the other. I'd probably scream like a teenage girl who just won dinner and movie with Eminem ... but, er, my tastes tend to differ from those of the typical teenage girl.

--Ghul

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Isn't that bragadier
Ken

Perhaps in your case, amigo...

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Generally, it's best not to say things like that around here. Surely, the Colonel will PUNish us all now, and I don't mean by sending us to the Brig, my dear.

Ah...Frigate!

I don't want to do any brig puns--to sloopy.

Now noting that Bragi is a Norse deity is another matter. That's why I can forgive Ken for his temerity.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Hi Gary, My Husband and I were just reading this thread and saw that you live in Lake Genevia. We Live in Antioch and play every Friday night from 7 to Midnightish. We would love for you to join us some time. My Husband has been a gamer for over 20 years and I just started to play. I would love to have an opportunity to be able to talk to the creator of D & D just as I am starting to play. If you could make it on November 11th that is my birthday and I am making a Mexican Feast for everyone it would be a great present to have you join us if you can.

Thanks for such a great game that my husband and I enjoy together.

Laurel Wolf

Hi Laurel

Far off, exotic Antioch, eh? That is pretty near.

The fact is that on Friday I have lunch out with my wife, then we spend the evening together--unless she or I have work that must be done.

Thanks anyway, and holler if you two would like to come up and play some LA or MA here sometime

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

2,000th reply!

Gary, what could the original Magic Missile - as you conceived of it - do to non-living objects, if anything?

The envisaged effect for a magic missile when impacting a non-living (other than undead), energiless target was a fuzzle. Sort of llike a spark that sizzles a bit and does out leaving only a bit of scorched surface behing to mark its passing.

I got the idea of the spell from the film The Raven with Boris Karloff, vincent Price, and Peter Laurie. So too the shield spell.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Joseph Elric Smith]

Which is one of the reason they are some of my favourite spells.
Ken

The envisaged effect for a magic missile when impacting a non-living (other than undead), energiless target was a fuzzle. Sort of llike a spark that sizzles a bit and does out leaving only a bit of scorched surface behing to mark its passing.

I got the idea of the spell from the film The Raven with Boris Karloff, vincent Price, and Peter Laurie. So too the shield spell.

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Man, I could picture it now. Watching out my window, awaiting the arrival none other than Gary Gygax for night of gaming a Mexican feasting. And here comes, EGG, pulling into your driveway, gets out of his car with a bottle of scotch in one hand and bag of books and dice in the other. I'd probably scream like a teenage girl who just won dinner and movie with Eminem ... but, er, my tastes tend to differ from those of the typical teenage girl.

--Ghul

LOL!

About the only time anything close to that has happened to me is when in the past I have been mistaken for Gerry Garcia. On one of those occassions a teenage girl followed me around, even after I carefully explained to her that I was not said rock star. About then my wife showed up and shooed the young lady away

In a restaurant some folks were all excited that Gerry Garcia was dinind there, and the maitre de, someone who is a friend, explained who I was. That did not impress the other diners in the least

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Which is one of the reason they are some of my favourite spells.
Ken

Thank you Dr. Craven

Cheers,
Gary

Now I need to be at work developmentally editing an LA game module designed by the clever Canadian author Greg Ellis