grodog wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:
Gary created Castle Greyhawk and Rob created Castle El Raja Key.  Gary played in Rob's castle, and Rob played in Gary's castle (and other folks obviously played in both castles).  Gary's Original Castle Greyhawk saw play for a year or two-ish, and at the end Gary brought Rob in as co-DM, at which time Gary incorporated many/most of Rob's El Raja Key levels into Castle Greyhawk, which became the Expanded Castle Greyhawk.  Gary made changes to Rob's levels and his own to re-mesh the two castles into a new whole.  

So, ownership of the Castle Greyhawk IP is rather complicated.

Mister Yuk wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I wasn't aware of this until now, but looks like Kuntz is selling a lot (or all?) of access to his work on Gygax's Original Campaign.
https://www.tlbgames.com/

Yes, the El Raja Key Archive was published in the fall of 2016, and includes many scans of materials from the original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn campaigns, with some bits and pieces of things that predate both.  Well-worth checking out!  You can order direct from Rob/Paul via the TLBGames site, or buy the sets from Black Blade at North Texas and GaryCon each year

Thanks Allan for greatly expanding on what I know about it.

Mister Yuk wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Thanks Allan for greatly expanding on what I know about it.

You're quite welcome!

Allan.

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Flat-Earthers think you can't fall off the edge because we live in a Pac-Man world
'Among the list of speakers was musician Darren Nesbit, who postulated that we were all living in a Pac-Man world..."We know that continuous east-west travel is a reality...One logical possibility for those who are truly free thinkers is that space-time wraps around and we get a Pac-Man effect."'

Well, they are kinda sorta right, if you believe some physicists.  In fact, some pretty heavy duty scientists think the universe may work this way.  I.E.  if you keep traveling in the same direction long enough you end up back where you started.

Yes, a day when millions of movie fans gain a collective lisp.  

Agent Cooper wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Well, they are kinda sorta right, if you believe some physicists.  In fact, some pretty heavy duty scientists think the universe may work this way.  I.E.  if you keep traveling in the same direction long enough you end up back where you started.

So I've heard. It is one of those weird-physics descriptions that sound as if they make perfect sense in an everyday, Newtonian way, but probably involve ideas I know nothing about. The most everyday way I can imagine it is that the objects of the universe could be approximately located on an imaginary/abstract, expanding sphere. As you travel, you are also moving outward along with everything else, so you stay approximately on the sphere, and therefore would eventually reach the same bunch of objects in space that were originally located at your point of origin. Or do I have it backwards?

I went to see the movie Solo today, and it's...good.  There are action scenes, a little romance, and some humor.  The plot is O.K. if predictable.  There are plenty of plot holes if you think about it afterward.  The actors are O.K., but the guy playing Han just couldn't channel him.....right.  Chewie was spot on....    Star Wars fans will probably diagnose this thing to death, and it's better to anticipate it as a summer popcorn movie instead of Star Wars cannon.  There are a number of scenes, scores, and lines inserted to generate nostalgia, and I appreciate that it wasn't all new material.  It was obviously created as a money grab, and Disney probably did the best they could considering that there's no way they'd match expectations with reality.  I would not be surprised if there is a follow-up to this movie.  Partly because there's money to be made, but also because Disney's left itself quite a bit of maneuvering room between the end of this movie and when Han appears in the original Star Wars movie.

I did not see this in IMAX or 3D.  There is no bonus scene at the end.  The theater was not crowded for a 1:00 PM showing today.  It's a shorter movie at roughly 1 1/2 hours including previews.   People clapped at the end of the movie, but I think they were all kids.  Overall, it's an O.K. entry in the Star Wars saga and worth seeing at the theater, but predict many Star Wars nuts would disagree with me.  8)

benjoshua wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:

sauromatian wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread: Or do I have it backwards?

As Stephen Hawking said, "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

I think we understand as much about the universe as a bumblebee does about a 401K plan.

W.W.G.G.D?

Skullhammer wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:W.W.G.G.D?

The following, if you mean "W.W.G.L.D" . . .

Quite likely, cast for Han a whiny shallow putz hired for his unquestionable handsomeness rather than acting ability, have a freaking annoying sidekick (Chewie's kid "Lumpy", resurrected from the Holiday Special) to be the Godzooky to the Godzilla, have Lando making awkward passes at a Leia lookalike (instead of having the hots for a robot) and mumbling something about how much he hates sand , have 18 million CGI effects per square inch with about five of them actually looking real,  feature the return of General Grievous rather than Darth Maul as the surprise crime lord, have some random atrocity against children, have the Millennium Falcon kick tushie regardless, and have Biggs Darklighter cameo randomly as a slave in the Kessel Mines to compensate for his cut scenes in the original "Star Wars".  Oh, and have Jar Jar stumble into the fight ring with those robots.