Bill The Dungeon Delver shares the audio from a telephone conversation he had with Gary Gygax in 2002.
They talk about the history of TSR, a D&D film, and the future of RPGs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A1IsQY2D4
On 5 Jul 2023, gbbgu wrote:
Bill The Dungeon Delver shares the audio from a telephone conversation he had
with Gary Gygax in 2002.
They talk about the history of TSR, a D&D film, and the future of RPGs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A1IsQY2D4
Here's the transcript of the audio that is mentioned at the start of the >video:
http://thedelversdungeon.blogspot.com/2016/01/happy-2016.html
Thank you for that. I find transcripts much more valuable than audio.
Easier (and faster) to parse and search, easier to archive... a whole
bunch of reasons.
As to the content itself... it's very 2000s. There's still a lot of aggressiveness towards TSR and 2nd Edition, which - fortunately - has mellowed over the years. Still, this was only shortly after TSRs most litigious era, when it was even threatening to sue players who posted fan-made stuff on the Internet, so I can understand there being
lingering ill will. Mrs. Williams - CEO of TSR - gets a lot of flak,
not all of it undeserved, but Gygax's take is fairly one-sided but -
because he was the 'inventor' of D&D, most fans sided with him. But
many of the problems TSR contended with in its latter days were
started under Gygax's management.
And Gygax was hardly a seer when it came to RPGs anyway; he could be
equally aggressive towards business partners and players, and arrogant
about the 'right way' to play the game (even mellowed as he is, you
can still see some of that in the posted interview). Plus, there's
this famous quote from the very same interview: "I fear that 3rd
Edition wonÂ’t have legs."
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