Request for ENworld Gygax Memorial

[Geron Raveneye]

Morrus,

As a memorial to Col Pladoh, how about collecting all of his posts (not just the Gygax Q & A) here at ENworld and put them in a sub-forum? That way future generations can find Gary's anecdotes, musings, puns, etc. all in one place? There's also quite a bit of historical gold in some of his posts that can't be found elsewhere.

So how about it?

Fully agree to this suggestion. Now that the creator of D&D is not around anymore to answer questions about his creation, it'd be a great service to save the answers he gave for future reference. It's a collection of wisdom that shouldn't get lost.

 

[Grazzt]

GM's Day should be renamed (or subtitled) Gary Gygax Day from now on. Opinions?

I agree with ya Knight-

 

[Blackrat]

I agree with ya Knight-

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=220785

 

[paradox42]

Agreed, a great idea. Can it be done? The Gary Gygax Q&A threads should be easy enough to archive in whole-thread form, given that the board already has thread-archiving tools built in. Archiving all of Col_Pladoh's individual posts in other threads would probably be considerably more difficult depending on how the database is set up, but it might be possible. If nothing else, a new thread could be started and the individual posts copied over into it.

 

[Michael Morris]

If you are a community supporter go to his profile, then choose "view all posts by"

 

[Eridanis]

I plan to pick up a project I tried to start years ago - putting his Q&A threads into an organized pdf. Sadly, this seems like a good time to do it. If I can get it nicely done by his birthday in July, that would work well, I think.

Also, his Q&A threads are placed in the Archive forum, where they can be easily viewed.

 

[Clavis]

Another vote for collecting of of Gary's posts in one, easy to find and access, place.

 

[BluWolf]

This is an outstanding idea.

Preserve another small part of his VAST legacy.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

Please collect his posts.

 

[Morrus]

I can see how that would work with, say, the Q&A threads. But I can't think of a way to make it work for *all* of his posts - and, moreso, if that's the aim, a simple search for Col_Pladoh's posts would achieve the goal far more elegantly.

I have a hard time imagining a forum filled with one-post threads, each of which contains an out-of-context post of Gary's.

Perhaps it would be better if someone put together a list of interesting quotes, and a page could be made.