Thanks to the generosity of someone who was lucky enough to pick up a copy at GenCon 2011 and was now willing to pass it along (thanks H).
It's a dip-able book rather than a concentrated read-through, and I've been enjoying reading it a few pages a day. Much of its appeal comes from Gygax's relaxed tone. Unlike some of his infamous editorials in DRAGON years before, these are low-key and approachable: more a sharing of what he remembers off the cuff.
Plus there's some TSR/Tolkien material in here worthy of its own post, which I'll see about pulling together and posting tonight.
--John R.
--current reading: CHEERS GARY (2011), THE WORLD OF TOLKIEN (2020), A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920)
--current music: 'Chicago' by Graham Nash (circa 1971)
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As long as that book is, it is only a fraction of the online Q&A threads that Gygax participated in during his last decade. At Dragonsfoot alone he made over 3,500 posts, including a series of twelve Q&A threads, now archived as Zagyg's Wisdom. He also participated in Q&A at the Troll Lord and Pied Piper Publishing (Rob Kuntz) forums. And he had his own long running gygax-games mailing list where, in addition to answering questions, he would post summaries of his game sessions. I made a list of these various Q&A threads along with links in a stickied thread at the Knights & Knaves Alehouse forum, here.
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