I especially like the names.
Mrifk? Grignr? Buy a fucking vowel.
I’m going to get this and read it. This is so bad I have to read it.
Unless one of you kind people would like to douse me with kerosene, set me on fire, and drag me through a field of nice cacti. Or slowly feed me to a wild boar.
Nice.
b.
I’ve seen a photo of him in one of his paperbacks. He’s real all right. He also looks like one heckuva weirdo.
Funny you should say that. I believe Crow makes the same comment in the MSTied version.
I started reading “The Eye of Argon”… and was able to slog through it until I found the reference to the wench’s “sagging nipples.”
Damn. Now that’s description! laughing
I’m wondering if I should post a reading of the Eye of Argon I did with some college buddies.
It’s the LUSTY reading.
I should boot up my old comp and see if I can recover the file.
After the second page "I’m out of money now, can I just have a vowel?
Er, unquote. I wasn’t trying to say I made that up :). That was more Crow.
Greenwood is very real. He was a very prolific game designer for TSR through the 80s and whatever portion of the 90s the Lake Geneva team managed to hang on through. He created the Forgotten Realms setting, which was AD&D’s official setting from about 1987 to the death rattles of TSR, prior to Wizards of the Coast swooping down in the proverbial sweet chariot to take what was left on home to Seattle.
Forgotten Realms has been revived, following the resurrection of AD&D as plain old D&D (also known among diehards and oldtimers as “3rd Edition”), and Ed is once again on board.
About par for the course for AD&D (or for that matter any) licensed fiction. I’m usually pleasantly surprised if it’s readable and I don’t give up after 30 pages.
I’m going to go to a bar tonight and try out my new pick-up line: “What are you called by female?”
Then if she responds well to that compliment her on her saggy nipples.
Actually, I never meant to suggest that he wasn’t real. I just wondered if he may have decided to take advantage of the similarity of his name to Ed Wood’s and start churning out B-grade fiction.
[sub]D&D? I thought that was Gary Gygax.[/sub]
I know that one always works on me! Either that, or you can mention my lithe, opaque nose. A girl loves to feel special.
…And from where do you come, barbarian?
I come from my…
Oh, nevermind.
b.
(And I haven’t seen the mst3k, though i hope to, so I wasn’t ripping them off, it just occurred to me.)
I hail from Accordian, slut!!!
Ah. My mistake. No, he’s been churning out B-grade fiction since they started publishing his fiction.
His campaign setting pieces are excellent, though. As long as he doesn’t have to translate characters, setting and plot into actual narrative fiction, he’s fine.
And Gygax did indeed invent D&D, back in the mid-70s. He’s still the Grand Old Man, with a regular column for D&D’s house organ, Dragon magazine. It consists mostly of old Gary reminiscing about the granddaddy original campaign, Greyhawk.
The story of the death throes of TSR and D&D’s subsequent rescue by Wizards of the Coast is long, sordid, and entirely outside the scope of this thread, so I’ll skip it.
I thought Gygax got leveraged out of the company. Is he really still with TSR?
In regards to the OP, Greenwood sucks. Always has, always will.
Dig up some old copies of the aforementioned Dragon TSR house organ and read the old “Interviews with Eliminster” (or whatever they called those putrid articles).
Crap. Total crap.
Exgineer, as of the last published issue, Gygax is contributing a regular column to Dragon. More than that I cannot say.
Thanks, jayjay.
My subscribption to the Dragon ran out when I left for college in 1985, so my memory may be a little dim. I really thought they gave Gygax the boot.
But Greenwood still sucks.