Comments on: Gygax Gone https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/ Award-winning & New York Times-bestselling author and game designer Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44333 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:47:34 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44333 Thanks for the update, James. That’s good to know. I’ll miss seeing him there too. It’ll be the first one ever without him, after 40 years in a row.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50623 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:47:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50623 Thanks for the update, James. That’s good to know. I’ll miss seeing him there too. It’ll be the first one ever without him, after 40 years in a row.

]]> By: James Mishler https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44331 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:41:10 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44331 My understanding is that Gary was able to complete all his work on Castle Zagyg, and had turned it all over to Troll Lords to be finished, so it will eventually be released.

That said, I was very much looking forward to throwing dice down with him at Gen Con this year and facing the slavering hordes of Castle Zagyg with him as GM… 🙁

]]> By: James Mishler https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50622 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:41:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50622 My understanding is that Gary was able to complete all his work on Castle Zagyg, and had turned it all over to Troll Lords to be finished, so it will eventually be released.

That said, I was very much looking forward to throwing dice down with him at Gen Con this year and facing the slavering hordes of Castle Zagyg with him as GM… 🙁

]]> By: Jack https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44326 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:01:46 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44326 Gary Gygax created a system that freed my teenage angst and gave it a channel to productive creativity. I still look to those books for release from the tedium of my soul stealing I.T. job. Every other Saturday my wife and friends get together to delve in to another world where we release the full wrath of our imagination upon the villains and monster of our D.M.’s devising.

Thank you for posting the NPR link and sharing your experiences.

]]> By: Jack https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50621 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50621 Gary Gygax created a system that freed my teenage angst and gave it a channel to productive creativity. I still look to those books for release from the tedium of my soul stealing I.T. job. Every other Saturday my wife and friends get together to delve in to another world where we release the full wrath of our imagination upon the villains and monster of our D.M.’s devising.

Thank you for posting the NPR link and sharing your experiences.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44322 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:06:31 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44322 Knowing Gary, he probably left reams of notes about Castle Zagyg and countless other places. I don’t know if we’ll ever see it, of course, but we can dream.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50620 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50620 Knowing Gary, he probably left reams of notes about Castle Zagyg and countless other places. I don’t know if we’ll ever see it, of course, but we can dream.

]]> By: Christian Johnson https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44317 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:27:56 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-44317 Thanks for posting this and the link to the NPR interview. I’ll have to listen. The guys at Troll Lord, especially their Castles and Crusades game, seem to have really embraced Gary’s game design philosophy. I’m saddened that I won’t be able to see the rest of his Castle Zagyg stuff.

]]> By: Christian Johnson https://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50619 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:27:00 +0000 http://www.forbeck.com/2008/03/04/gygax-gone/#comment-50619 Thanks for posting this and the link to the NPR interview. I’ll have to listen. The guys at Troll Lord, especially their Castles and Crusades game, seem to have really embraced Gary’s game design philosophy. I’m saddened that I won’t be able to see the rest of his Castle Zagyg stuff.

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