Your spouse doesn't like D&D? Neither did Gary's.

[grodog]

My wife Heather is a gamer, though not an rpg-er: she and her family play lots of card games, board games (I addicted them all to Settlers of Catan), logic games, strategy games (her dad played Diplomacy in the 60s), etc., etc.

Heather tried D&D with us once (she played a level 1 cleric of Lydia in the Greyhawk-adapted Wizard's Amulet [by Necromancer Games] that I ran a few summers ago), but she really didn't get into it. Oh well. We're still happy

 

[Robbert Raets]

Hong: That is ... just so very wrong.

Duh.

 

[Von Ether]

Worked well enough for us.

And I respect that you and your wife worked at it. But I am sure that for many other people, life is easier when you wait until college is over and you have your career started.

Different strokes for different folks, but it wasn't the right time or the right attitudes in our life for such a change.

 

[jester47]

You know, it occurs to me that the genesis of DND would make an awesome movie of the week/mini-series. (well, about as awesome as they can get) I mean all the excitement as the thing developed, the even greater excitement as the money started to pour in. The corruption as the money started to have an effect on egos, the Blume Backstab, and the eventual takeover of Lorriane Williams. It would be cheezy, but man it would be great!

Problem is, you would have to change the names and make it a similar situation probably so as to avoid lawsuits. Even then, the characters are still based on real people. Oh well. I think it would be great to see Danny DeVito play Gary Gygax.

Aaron.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I didn't think Gary was that short.

But yeah Jester, the whole sordid D&D affair reminds me of HBO's film "The Late Shift", about the war between Leno and Letterman over the Tonight Show.