Mar 29, 2021
“This year’s E. Gary Gygax Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the inimitable Jeff Easley.“
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“This year’s E. Gary Gygax Lifetime Achievement Award was given to the inimitable Jeff Easley.“
This news dropped a few days ago during a busy con weekend but it’s worth highlighting -- Goodman Games has purchased the ownership rights to Jennell Jaquays’ Dark Tower, one of her most famous 3rd party AD&D adventures from 1979, formerly owned by Judges Guild. Goodman Games had published various versions of Dark Tower under license in the past but subsequently had severed ties with the current owner of Judges Guild. This purchase allows Goodman to move forward with new Dark Tower projects with no further ties to JG’s current owner, and coincides with the announcement of new 5e and DCC conversions with cover art by Sanjulián:
“This adventurer is about to have a haunting experience with the girl of his dreams in Scott Burdick’s cover painting for ‘The Ghost of Mistmoor’” (AD&D adventure for levels 3-6 by Leonard Wilson, Dungeon 35, May/June 1992) John from BlueBoxRPG ran a fantastic version of this for us at Ethereal Gary Con XIII yesterday, currently viewable at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/965313861
Getting ready for some Boot Hill tonight (2nd ed box set by Gygax and Blume 1979, cover art by Elladan Elrohir = Kenneth Rahman)
If you like watching the Dungeons and the Dragons there are some more streamed events set in Gary Gygax’s world of Greyhawk as part of Ethereal Gary Con this weekend.
I’ll be on in 30 minutes, at 1:00 pm CDT today, Saturday, March 27, playing a bard from the mean streets of the Free City. Find us at the garycongreyhawk Twitch stream, with the DM from BlueBoxRPG. This is a “3.5 with 1e/2e elements” game. Will anyone survive the merciless critical hit tables?
https://www.twitch.tv/garycongreyhawk
(All times above should say CDT, the official con time in Lake Geneva’s time zone, 5 hours behind UTC)
1,640 Likes, 59 Comments - The Pickled Dragon (@the_pickled_dragon) on Instagram: “Gary Gygax, the beloved inventor of Dungeons and Dragons and gaming icon. In less that a week we…”
Gary Gygax in miniature with AD&D DMG and Hawaiian shirt, from the Gary Con XI auction (via The Pickled Dragon Instagram)
Glad I caught the tail end of the Dragon Talk interview with Mike Carr at Gary Con XI. His segment follows Luke Gygax’s at 1:36:18 in the Twitch VOD here. He talks about playing the first ever cleric with Dave Arneson, running the first scheduled game at the first Gen Con at age 16 (using his own Fight in the Skies/Dawn Patrol rules), and various projects he worked on at TSR including writing B1: In Search of the Unknown and editing the 3 AD&D core books.
After much deliberation, I made the decision to remove Frank Mentzer as a Guest of Honor from Gary Con. His past misconduct and threatening behavior violate the ethics and harassment policies estab…
On Monday Luke Gygax removed Frank Mentzer as a Guest of Honor from next month’s Gary Con XI, after years of accumulated complaints of harassment. (Official statement) Mentzer founded the RPGA in 1980 and authored the third Basic D&D set (the original 1983 “Red Box”) and the rest of the BECMI series.