Speaking of D&D History
Readers interested in the early history of the Dungeons & Dragons game might enjoy this thread, from the message boards of Robert J. Kuntz, the primary player in Gary Gygax's original Greyhawk campaign.
Kuntz's "Lost City of the Elders" figures into the "Maure Castle" mythology, and is also a centerpiece of Rob's "World of Kalibruhn" fantasy milieu.
Rob's pulp sensibilities make him one of my favorite D&D designers, and the quoted material in this thread strikes me as particularly imaginative and rich.
And while I'm at it, here's a fantastic site about the "original" version of the World of Greyhawk, which is to say the setting as seen through the eyes of Gary Gygax and Robert J. Kuntz, who can rightfully be said to have created it.
Kuntz's "Lost City of the Elders" figures into the "Maure Castle" mythology, and is also a centerpiece of Rob's "World of Kalibruhn" fantasy milieu.
Rob's pulp sensibilities make him one of my favorite D&D designers, and the quoted material in this thread strikes me as particularly imaginative and rich.
And while I'm at it, here's a fantastic site about the "original" version of the World of Greyhawk, which is to say the setting as seen through the eyes of Gary Gygax and Robert J. Kuntz, who can rightfully be said to have created it.
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I think it could rightfully be said that Greyhawk is still and always be Gary and Rob's to play with.
Everyone else isn't playing in Greyhawk. They are playing in their own version of Greyhawk and hoping Gary and/or Rob approves.
Welcome to the site, Diaglo!
If the world worked the way it ought to, Gary and Rob would still be in the driver's seat of the setting. Unfortunately, the world doesn't work that way, and they aren't.
It's gratifying to me to see Gary and Rob collaborating on Castle Zagyg. The thought that we might finally get an "official" version of the genuine article is very exciting to me, and is the realization of a product I've wanted for more than 20 years.
It's not to be. RJK has pulled out of the development.
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