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.

 

[Mycanid]

Twenty six pounds! That's no trufling thing!

[Slaps himself on the forehead and groans....]

 

[dcas]

I seem to have fallen into a den of hobbits!

 

[Mycanid]

I seem to have fallen into a den of hobbits!

Please direct all comments to Mayor Gygax!

 

[Prince of Happiness]

Please direct all comments to Mayor Gygax!

Indeed! He started it with the menu for the Inn of the Welcome Wench in Village of Hommlet!

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Oh all right...

I confess I am a gastronome, love gourmet restaurants, enjoy cooking, and am usually willing to try anything that has the prospect of being good to eat

And now I am wishing I had paid more attention to my grandfather when he was attempting to teach me about edible mushrooms. I recall him mentioning a shelf fungi that was excellent, I think he said it was orange, but matbe that was one that was poisnous. Ah well.

That mushroom pun didn't ring true.

As for Drow, I never envisaged them as a standard PC race. I guess I erred in not making them more loathesome...although malign subterranean elves that love spiders seem pretty unappealing as is...

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Gary, which OD&D rules will we be using during the Lake Geneva Con? Mentzer's box set rules or Hoyle's or Molday/Cook's? I was thinking of rolling up my characters at home and bringing some, or would it be better just to roll up characters in front of the judges?

 

[JohnRTroy]

When Gary uses the term OD&D (Original D&D), he's talking about the box HE wrote, 1974, before he started developing the Advanced and before there was such a separate thing as a Basic Set.

 

[dcas]

That mushroom pun didn't ring true.

Not even to a fun guy like you?

 

[Mycanid]

Finally ... someone else gets nailed with this pun instead of me.

 

[thedungeondelver]

Not even to a fun guy like you?

Don't mind Gary; he's just trying to put another feather in his cap.