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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 7688924" data-attributes="member: 2732">I had mentioned that.  I enjoyed Lost City of Gaxmoor, Gary was very proud of that, and I think all the Gygax sons have talent.  I am honestly looking forward to seeing Ernie's tomb, which I backed as a Kickstarter.  But Lost City of Gaxmoor was the brothers creative endeavor, not Gary's.  The point of my statement was solely based on people saying things like "Luke and Ernie are more deserving of the Trademark than Gail" or other variants.  I simply pointed out two important things...there has not been a lot of output directly from either of them on their own as Game Designers (Gaxmoor and the Gamma World module are the two that come to mind), so the fame to surname Gygax is Gary--when you hear the name by itself, do you think of Gaxmoor and Sagard the Barbarian first, or Tomb of Horrors and the DMG?  And secondly that if you want to argue participation in Gary's creative work from a business perspective, they didn't do things like co-write projects with him and his company.  The biggest credits in a lot of Gary's work was mostly Luke being a campaign/playtest participant in the adventures he wrote.Don't confuse those points with any judgement on their talent.  I think Luke does a great job leading GaryCon, and I think Ernie's going to be very successful in his creative endeavors based on the positive response to his Kickstarter.   I simply think when it comes to holding a Trademark on the solo "Gygax" in gaming related fields, it should go to who Gary willed his IP/Estate to.</blockquote>

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