Varianor Abroad
Explorer
We are gaming Saturday. Indeed. Great idea.
WorldWide GaryCon This Weekend!
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Silver Moon
Adventurer
Great idea Bill! Thanks! Looking forward to DMing it!HinterWelt said:
My C&C group always meets on Sunday.
This weekend, we will hold an open chair at the game in memory of EGG, and I will toast a Guiness in his honor as we start.
I plan on veering my group from their campaign and running them into a plain-out crawl of my own design in homage to Gary.
It is also my intention to, once we finish this campaign, embark on Castle Zagyg as it rolls out - I can think of no better tribute than looking to his own famous Castle!
This weekend, we will hold an open chair at the game in memory of EGG, and I will toast a Guiness in his honor as we start.
I plan on veering my group from their campaign and running them into a plain-out crawl of my own design in homage to Gary.
It is also my intention to, once we finish this campaign, embark on Castle Zagyg as it rolls out - I can think of no better tribute than looking to his own famous Castle!
der_kluge
Adventurer
The group I normally play with usually only meets once a month, but we ironically scheduled a pickup game for Friday. We were planning on playing a Gygax classic module, but we decided it'd be too difficult to work up in time, and given our short play time, all but guaranteed that we wouldn't be able to finish it in time. So, we're playing something I wrote instead, but figured the spirit of gaming would be enough. We'll be sure to leave a chair for Gary, and raise a toast in his honor.
a2ndchapter
Tabletop Scotland & Polyhedral Press Overlord
Radio Scotland covering Gygax death
Today I ran a D&D (3.5) game which was cobbled together late last night from some stuff online and mixed in a few classic beasties like the rust monster (what's not to like) and a purple worm.
Radio Scotland contacted me yesterday (Friday) at 3pm to see if they could record an interview with me and some members of ORC Edinburgh; and also the first 10 minutes of a D&D game. This will be edited and broadcast on Tuesday as part of the Radio Café arts programme they have. They are interviewing Mark Barrowcliffe about his novel The Elvish Gene where he tells tales of playing D&D in his teens. The show will obviously touch on the death of Gary Gygax.
Having never been interviewed or indeed recorded whilst running a game I think it's gonna sound crap, but what do I care. A little bit of embarrassment and a lot of fun went toward a celebration of the life of the man who started it all.
Cheers,
Dave
Today I ran a D&D (3.5) game which was cobbled together late last night from some stuff online and mixed in a few classic beasties like the rust monster (what's not to like) and a purple worm.
Radio Scotland contacted me yesterday (Friday) at 3pm to see if they could record an interview with me and some members of ORC Edinburgh; and also the first 10 minutes of a D&D game. This will be edited and broadcast on Tuesday as part of the Radio Café arts programme they have. They are interviewing Mark Barrowcliffe about his novel The Elvish Gene where he tells tales of playing D&D in his teens. The show will obviously touch on the death of Gary Gygax.
Having never been interviewed or indeed recorded whilst running a game I think it's gonna sound crap, but what do I care. A little bit of embarrassment and a lot of fun went toward a celebration of the life of the man who started it all.
Cheers,
Dave
Theron
Explorer
I'm stuck at home alone today with no access to players. So, I improvised and took another crack at the PC version of Temple of Elemental Evil.
Got as far as getting my party slaughtered by undead on the Emridy Meadows, which seems terribly appropriate.
If The Kiddo and his mom are up to it, I may try and run them through a brief C&C adventure tonight after they get home.
Got as far as getting my party slaughtered by undead on the Emridy Meadows, which seems terribly appropriate.
If The Kiddo and his mom are up to it, I may try and run them through a brief C&C adventure tonight after they get home.
HolyGrenadeFrenzy
Explorer
For GaryCon
I ran last night and am about to pick up anothere run tonight in Gary's honor.
Later, HGF
I ran last night and am about to pick up anothere run tonight in Gary's honor.
Later, HGF
Philodendron
First Post
Memories of my first DnD outing in the '70's are a bit hazy. As best as I remember, we were doing Keep on the Borderlands, and I died in my first-ever fight at the hands of a lizardman - tough to take when you're only seven, but I got past it.
After playing through Jr. High School, I didn't play for about 20 years; I've been in a campaign for about a year now. Last night, we played with an empty chair at the table, and our DM saluted the Old Master as we entered our first dungeon crawl of the entire campaign. It seemed a fitting tribute.
Oh, and I forgot the DM's glee when he (again, for the first time all campaign) rolled for wandering monsters!
-Phil
After playing through Jr. High School, I didn't play for about 20 years; I've been in a campaign for about a year now. Last night, we played with an empty chair at the table, and our DM saluted the Old Master as we entered our first dungeon crawl of the entire campaign. It seemed a fitting tribute.
Oh, and I forgot the DM's glee when he (again, for the first time all campaign) rolled for wandering monsters!
-Phil
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Theron
Explorer
My first outing with D&D was on the cafeteria porch of my high school, at a picnic table on a Friday afternoon, after classes were done for the day. My friend John, who owned the Blue Book Basic Set was the DM, and my friend Rob and I ran two PCs apiece (I had Feahor the Fearless, a fighter; and the unimaginatively named Theron the Thief). We played in an expanded version of the sample dungeon in the book. I don't remember the details beyond the fact that Theron died in the first room.
That was the fall of 1978. This year will mark my 30th anniversary of playing RPGs.
This evening, I pulled out my 1st edition DMG (for the encounter charts) and the Yggsburgh campaign setting (for the maps) and ran some off-the-cuff C&C for my son. Mike the Trader (his 6th level Rogue) camped with some trappers, and saved them from an owlbear attack in the night. It appears the owlbear belonged to Karch, an evil wizard he's had problems with in the past. After a bit more journeying, he met up with his friend Gryffith the Ranger, and they plan on tracking the beast back to its lair. (To be continued, because bathtime rolled around.)
That was the fall of 1978. This year will mark my 30th anniversary of playing RPGs.
This evening, I pulled out my 1st edition DMG (for the encounter charts) and the Yggsburgh campaign setting (for the maps) and ran some off-the-cuff C&C for my son. Mike the Trader (his 6th level Rogue) camped with some trappers, and saved them from an owlbear attack in the night. It appears the owlbear belonged to Karch, an evil wizard he's had problems with in the past. After a bit more journeying, he met up with his friend Gryffith the Ranger, and they plan on tracking the beast back to its lair. (To be continued, because bathtime rolled around.)
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