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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2545916" data-attributes="member: 158">I think this has gone WAAAY over the simple answer it needs:Anything &quot;Gygaxian&quot; means something penned by Gary Gygax. It's that simple. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> He's the only one I know who can hit that exact style of writing, adventure creation, and expectation from the players. Goodman Games can't, Necromancer can't, Troll Lords can't, and when they can, it's from something he penned.In truth, it's such an undefined term, that trying to characterize and define it only leads to unintentional insults, harsh feelings, and misunderstandings, as this thread shows.Is &quot;Gygaxian&quot; killer-DM'ing, as Hussar's friend suggests? No, and in fact Gary has an entire section of the old DMG devoted to that topic. Killer DMs are no fun to Gary just like DMs who give everything away disproportionate to challenge aren't fun.Gygaxian adventures often do however, involve a bit of critical thinking, even if the thinking is not open to all possible outcomes. Often, in Gary's adventures, there is a &quot;right&quot; answer and a &quot;wrong&quot; answer; however, what ISN'T said in the adventures, and left as an unspoken rule, is that the DM is open to interpret creative thinking, and I think often people miss this in looking at the adventures with hindsight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 2545916, member: 158"] I think this has gone WAAAY over the simple answer it needs: Anything "Gygaxian" means something penned by Gary Gygax. It's that simple. :) He's the only one I know who can hit that exact style of writing, adventure creation, and expectation from the players. Goodman Games can't, Necromancer can't, Troll Lords can't, and when they can, it's from something he penned. In truth, it's such an undefined term, that trying to characterize and define it only leads to unintentional insults, harsh feelings, and misunderstandings, as this thread shows. Is "Gygaxian" killer-DM'ing, as Hussar's friend suggests? No, and in fact Gary has an entire section of the old DMG devoted to that topic. Killer DMs are no fun to Gary just like DMs who give everything away disproportionate to challenge aren't fun. Gygaxian adventures often do however, involve a bit of critical thinking, even if the thinking is not open to all possible outcomes. Often, in Gary's adventures, there is a "right" answer and a "wrong" answer; however, what ISN'T said in the adventures, and left as an unspoken rule, is that the DM is open to interpret creative thinking, and I think often people miss this in looking at the adventures with hindsight. [/QUOTE]

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