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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4530044" data-attributes="member: 2732">I don't like people attacking Gail, because I know her and I know Gary loved and trusted her.  Gail was always the legal owner of Trigee, not Gary.Part of the frustration I've had with the prior publishers--and this is not an attack on them or anything like that--is that completed works have been really slow to ever be published.  Gary wrote so much for LA and a lot still hasn't been published--Elder Worlds and Lejendary Asterouges.  There is a huge campaign-sourcebook-module called The Key of Sand / Maladicted Plateau that has been completed over a decade ago in 1997-1998!  It still hasn't been published.  This is not in outline format like CZ, it was feature complete for LA, etc.  It extremely frustrates me as a fan to see these items get delayed.  I think Gary had a trait to trust a publisher--once he made a deal with somebody he trusted he was very hesitant to back out, even if the performance was less than stellar.  I think it's time for Gail to consider the options of other publishers.  For instance, I'd love to see all the Gord books reprinted by Paizo instead of TLG--Paizo has shown quality support when it comes to novels.Gail is probably not doing everything 100% Gary would have done, but I think it's a necessary step.  Gary was able to live comfortably not on royalties and deals but in part from Gail being the breadwinner of the family--let's face it, the RPG business is not that lucrative for anybody.  Gail has a very hard job ahead of her, she enjoyed casual games but wasn't a game geek, and probably can't dedicate the same amount of attention Gary could, so she has to leave it in the hands of somebody she trusts.As far as Castle Zagyg goes--I'm hopeful but realistically we will never get a very pure Gygax form of it.  I have a feeling any attempt will be like the Giant Rat of Sumatra--a story A.C. Doyle referenced a lot but never wrote for Sherlock Holmes, which means the imagined version would be better than the real one.  There is no "huge bible" from what I remember--it would probably fit in a 32 page module if published "as is".  I think any hope for getting a pure Castle Zagyg died when Gary had to cut his workload a few years back due to health reasons.  This is my personal opinion, and I never really contributed to CZ outside Yggsberg because of this.  (And just to correct--Gary retained all his faculties, he just had to cut back to keep his health up).  So I think the castle will never be 100% what we wanted, but that is the "Greyhawk Curse" in my opinion.  As a Gygax fan I want to see more of Gary's pure work, and I am very hopeful that LA, CZ, and other stuff will get the proper treatment.  I wasn't as excited about the GFW series since a lot of it was co-written (except Living Fantasy, that was pure Gary).  I want to finally see Key of Sand published.  From what I see, people who Gary trusted like Greg Timm, Jon Creffield, and others have gotten involved, so I'm sure Gail and Spenser are doing a good job.</blockquote>

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