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At times, Jim Ward (actually Rob Kuntz, see below, thanks Reddit4Play) would switch off and Gary would play, and when he did he played Mordenkainen, his wizard that eventually gave his name to a few AD&D spells. Gary never released his notes for the Castle (aside from a tongue-in-cheek module). Eventually, he gave all his notes and scribblings to a writer named Jeff Talanian and the two collaborated with Troll Lord Games to release 'Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works'. While not being able to use the name 'Castle Greyhawk' (since WotC owned that name now), most grognards knew what it was and the signifigance of it. I work for Troll Lord Games and was at the GenCon when it was released.

I sold hundreds that weekend. After Gary died, his widow Gail. Let's just say she broke the agreement Gary had with Troll Lord Games. All of the Castle Zagyg stuff (and there was much more that was unreleased) was gone. She thought she could use Gary's name to make a fortune. Sadly, she asked for way too much and the name started falling away. Now, she has nothing and neither do we.

Sometimes a Castle Zagyg will appear on eBay for $150-$200, but it is rare. Thankfully, I have a few copies. It is pretty amazing stuff. RIP Gary • • • •. Never released except for a tongue-in-cheek module, stuff about Castle Zagyg etc. Some corrections here (all from the Ask Gary ENWorld threads, where much was ado about Castle Greyhawk and Castle Zagyg) - All Castle Greyhawks released by TSR and WotC were not at all created from any of the notes from Gary Gygax.

Gygax never released any material from Castle Greyhawk under any name pertaining to Castle Greyhawk except for Castle Zagyg, some material of which was published by Troll Lord Games, and was frankly insulted at what they (TSR, not Troll Lord Games) insinuated his work to be in the first TSR release, which he believed to be part of the restart of his World of Greyhawk. The reason, he believed, WoG was restarted like that (and such a ridiculous Castle Greyhawk was released) was because of a move by TSR to gain control over/ridicule anything that previously had Gygax's name on it after booting him from the company. Castle Zagyg was originally a collaboration between Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz, his good friend and long-time DM (it was actually Rob who switched off DMing with Gary, not Jim Ward who ran a Metamorphosis Alpha game instead), and Rob Kuntz was primarily responsible for releasing most of the material in the Castle Zagyg: Yggsburg module, which was meant to create a location for the castle that was more or less wholly new. Sadly Gary and Rob had some sort of falling out over the way the project was to proceed from there, and what happened after that is a mystery that resulted in something to do with Jeff Talanian helping to get them published up to the Upper Works, and after that I'm not sure what happened but Gary's untimely death surely didn't help.

Tom Clancy`s Ghost Recon Predator Psp Iso Download. As to Gary's DMing method, well, I'll let him speak for himself! (Despite what some of the 'mature' and 'sophisticated' gamers assert, roleplay was indeed a central feature of the AD&D game from the proverbial get-go.) As someone who has designed a number of military miniatures rules sets, I could have made combat in the OAD&D game far more complex, including all manner of considerations for footing, elevation of the opponents, capacity to dodge, parrying skill, opponents using natural weapons, etc. Knowing that the game was not all about combat, I skipped as much of that as I could by having the main factors subsume lessers, ignoring the rest. It is a role-playing exercise where all manner of other game considerations come into play, not just fighting.

And, ultimately Forget the business about role-playing. It is as boring as rule-playing and roll-playing are when made the focus of the game. He basically did everything in equal share and found it all to be good and entertaining. His own works often contain a lot of combat because that's what he found most players tended to enjoy, not necessarily because he enjoyed it the most himself, and left to his own devices most assuredly ran fighting, dialog, exploration, and everything in-between and around thereabouts.

Thanks for the corrections. Can't beleive I said 'Jim Ward' instead of 'Rob Kuntz'. That is one of those things I knew but just brainfarted.

Plus, Jim Ward is a great guy and really cool to talk with. Rob Kuntz is. As far as H&S vs. Role-playing in Gary's game, I'm going by what he told me when I played in a game he DM'd.

I was of the opinion that, 'Oh shit, Gary-fucking-Gygax is DMing this game! I gotta go balls out.'

After playing a bit, Gary said something akin to, 'leave that role-playing stuff aside and just kill shit! It's more fun that way,' and by what others have told me he said in their games. So it may have been the way he felt that day.:) Thanks again. Ah, okay, I figured that since you said you worked at Troll Lord you would've known at least some of that and just forgot!

Glad I didn't come off as too know-it-all; it's hard to try to correct people without coming off like a douchebag, you know? As to how he DMed, well, all I know is he said he did everything.

Maybe he did favor combat, even if he never admitted it on ENWorld, but I do know he admitted to throwing in fights whenever things got boring because he found most people liked them and it spiced up the game. People aren't always consistent, either, so your point about 'how he felt that day' is well-taken:) • • • • •. I managed to meet Gary at a local con about a year before he died, when he was releasing the first part of Castle Zagyg. My Dad bought me the book and got it autographed, and I got my copy of the 3.5 PHB autographed (It was the only book I had on me, I forgot my OD&D stuff. Robert Cray Band Nothin But Love Rare here. ). Seemed nice enough; I was suprised there weren't more gamers there to see him (I was the only one to go up to him, he looked rather bored.) I was quite sad that they never put out the rest of the Castle Zagyg material.

And you are doing two campaigns right? One which is your development campaign that you export your module from, and the other in which you play and you open/load your module in right? Assuming you are, then the two map idea should work well, because I think if you add new pins to the map from the module while in the play campaign, and you add new pins in your development campaign to the same map and re-export, then you won't see the new pins from the development campaign unless you revert that map. In which case you will lose the pins you added in the play campaign.

Question (sorry if it's already been answered here, I didn't see it) I have three campaign files - one with my setting fluff, one with, erm, 'current stuff' like the calendar, notes written during sessions, NPCs, encounter tables, and one with my converted-from-PDF rulebooks. Can I merge all them into a single campaign by exporting them as three modules, then importing them in a new campaign (and then exporting that fourth campaign to get one file with all three original campaign files?) Sorry if that got confusing.