Writing in the Gygax style

[Bregh]

Egregiously increases own postcount, while reviving this thread into the attention of the posters.

"on friends to more and better loot" - Think this is the correct quote from Book 3 (Diagolo - please feel free to correct me)

Actually, gentle reader, the quote in question should read, "Onward, friends, to more and bigger loot," (cf. D&D, vol III, p. 14), however, none may doubt that your heart was, for the most part, in the right place, nor should there be any vaccilation concerning your conviction to the spirit of the game. Heretofore I shall always refer to you as a true and earnest OD&D'er, the appellation well and justly earned, and let all henceforth marvel at your doughty powers of recollection and the expertise with which they are applied.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

must use words: milieu, melee, rake, harlot, Bohemian ear spoon...

LOL

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What the blazes is a bohemian ear-spoon?

 

[Bregh]

What the blazes is a bohemian ear-spoon?

A form of partisan (itself a form of spear).

From EGG's treatise in The Dragon #22 (reprinted in The Best of the Dragon vol. II and the OAD&D Unearthed Arcana).

Partisan

This form of pole arm is basically a spear--often with an ox tongue blade--to which a pair of small axe heads were added below the dagger blade. To the thrusting stab of the spear was added the defensive use of the side axe blades and their cutting/penetrating potential. Later versions of the partisan yielded a gradual change in the axe blades, so that they became almost unrecognisable as such. Typical of this is the Bohemian ear-spoon, a form of partisan where the axes have been changed to serve as piercing spikes (primarily to be used against plate armour) with a ranseur-like function...

d20 stats for partizans (sic) are given on pp. 22 and 33 of Gary Gygax's World Builder.

 

[Particle_Man]

Once you have been pierced by a Bohemian Ear-Spoon it will not let you go.

Mama mia mama mia mama mia let me go!
Let him go! It will not, will not let you go!
Let him go! It will not, will not let you go!
Oh no, It will not let you go!
Oh nonononooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[MonsterMash]

Actually, gentle reader, the quote in question should read, "Onward, friends, to more and bigger loot," (cf. D&D, vol III, p. 14), however, none may doubt that your heart was, for the most part, in the right place, nor should there be any vaccilation concerning your conviction to the spirit of the game. Heretofore I shall always refer to you as a true and earnest OD&D'er, the appellation well and justly earned, and let all henceforth marvel at your doughty powers of recollection and the expertise with which they are applied.

Bregh,

Thank you - thats the nicest thing anyones said to me all day.

 

[Gez]

I am finding myself enjoying this puissantly amusing discussion. Certes, I am not, in fact, acquainted with the arcanes of the estimated Gary's redaction style, as I weren't, at these times, immersed in that unique and peculiar milieu; but I have a passing impression it makes ample use of various antiquated (even if some are still nowadays in use) French words, in the like partisan or destrier (cf. earlier contributions by miscellaneous authors).