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Post Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:53 pm 
 

Agent Cooper wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:I wonder what they mean.  Personally I'm thinking that's not just some private individual who collects, like us here.  I'm thinking an organization, say, the Strong Museum or some place like that maybe?


AFAIK The Strong Museum is more oriented towards donations versus writing out a big check. Also the founder of WOTC and present Gen Con owner sold all of his early MTG art and more likely a seller versus a buyer of material like this.

  

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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:15 am 
 

Pardon me for wandering into the middle of this, but do we know specifically what the disputed items are? So I can avoid them if I get an email offer?

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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:52 am 
 

Waynes_Books wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:Pardon me for wandering into the middle of this, but do we know specifically what the disputed items are? So I can avoid them if I get an email offer?

-Wayne


The bottom line is I don't think any of us know all that this entails, but the line about Gary's, "physical literary estate properties" and the implication that Kuntz is wanting some stuff back communicates to me that we're talking about literary items from Gary Gygax's and Robert Kuntz's past.  I'm not sure how I feel about not having to worry about receiving such an offer.   :?


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:27 am 
 

benjoshua wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:
The bottom line is I don't think any of us know all that this entails, but the line about Gary's, "physical literary estate properties" and the implication that Kuntz is wanting some stuff back communicates to me that we're talking about literary items from Gary Gygax's and Robert Kuntz's past.  I'm not sure how I feel about not having to worry about receiving such an offer.   :?


Ropb posted a detailed list  that was posted or reposted on Facebook of what physical property he wanted returned.


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 11:28 am 
 

Waynes_Books wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:Pardon me for wandering into the middle of this, but do we know specifically what the disputed items are? So I can avoid them if I get an email offer?


Rob Kuntz's Greyhawk Castle levels, among other things:

Castle Property List (owned)2
Core Level 3 Gem Room and Crypts Level
Core Level 6 Black Pudding Doorkeeper Level; note Up on a Soap Box #3, “How
to Train a Black Pudding.”
West Level 7 Barracks Level
Core Level 11 Entrance to Oz Level; this has become Dreamlands as of 1985.
Core Level 12 Boreal Level
Core Level 12 Valhalla (special inter-level); connects to Asgard
Core Level 13 Entrance to Asgard (this is actually a starting point for many
levels and sub-levels connected to it), Melnibone (not applicable in published
form due to copyright; changed to Entrance to Demonworld (9 joined hex maps,
very large)), and Dying Earth Level, same (now Dark Earth with Tharzdu’un)
Core Level 14 Orb, Scepter, and Crown Level
Core Level 5 Sealed Tomb Level
East Level 3 Garden & Giant's Pool Hall Level (this Garden was the prototype
for Garden of the Plantmaster)
East Level 8 Machine Level
South Level 9 Horsing Around (special level)
Core Level 2 Invisible Maze Level
West Level 5 Gallery Level
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? Bottle City (will be expanded to include the whole city; 50+ pages of ms, maps
and illustrations are extant for the other levels above it)
? The Living Room (expanded)
? The Lake Level; note that the original Lake Level was designed by me for Castle
El Raja Key. Gary loved it so much that he requested I transfer it to CsGH2
upon me becoming co-DM; much later he redesigned it as The Black Reservoir
but kept many of my original design elements in place; in 2017 I redesigned the
original from 1973 (CsERK) as a two-map Lake Level for Athenscon. The latter
incarnation is the working, publishable version. (connects to Castle LV ? and to
the Deafening Depths)
?Deafening Depths (connects to the Lake Level); eventually descends to Nveres’
Grotto, an extensive primordial environ
===========
? The Wyrm Caves (one time lair of Tiamat)
? The Hexed Maze
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Connections to City, City Sewers, Nearby Outdoor, Extra-Planar
Temple of the Latter Day Old Ones (connects to Formalhaut, The Annex, Twisted
Tunnels and City Sewers)
The Annex (connects to Temple of the Latter Day Old Ones)
Dreamlands (connects to Castle and Demonworld)
Dark Earth (connects to Castle)
Demonworld (connections to LV 13, The Abyss and a highly secretive conduit to
Dreamland)
Asgard (connects to LV13, and to sampled versions of this mythos, Midgard, et al)
Formalhaut (connects to the Castle, City, to a special nearby outdoor level,
Temple of the Latter Day Old Ones, and to Lost City of the Elders)
The Twisted Tunnels (connections between City, City Sewers, Castle and Temple
of the Latter Day Old Ones). “They question me about the secret passages and
tunnels beneath the plains between the city and the castle. Every square foot of
those plains I have tread upon of old. I have lead expeditions in search of these
outsiders and their followers--there, to the north, and deep underground; and
through tunnels that years ago never existed to the best of my knowledge.” --
Soliloquies of the Green Dragon Lord, 2011, Page 5.
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Summary: Approximately 30 upper to mid-range levels are needed to fill in the entire
blank spaces. I am about crafting a 2-D graphic of the Castle Levels reorganization.


Please forgive the formatting stuff, it's in the original PDF which you can download at https://www.threelinestudio.com/app/dow ... 1557766239

Allan.


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Post Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:32 pm 
 

OK, noted. Thanks guys.



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Post Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 2:38 pm 
 

Agent Cooper wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:When they say "Major Collector" in a legal tone like this, I wonder what they mean.


I'm not a Major Collector, I'm a Private Collector. (Military people will be groaning at this one...)

  


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Post Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:40 pm 
 

MadCatUSA wrote in Gail Gygax Interview:I'm not a Major Collector, I'm a Private Collector. (Military people will be groaning at this one...)


Major Boredom & General Apathy think it's hilarious.

  


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Post Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:55 pm 
 

Image
Such a sweet picture.

  

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:55 pm 
 

Such a sweet picture.


Where did you find this photo of them?

  


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:27 pm 
 

It's actually from the article itself. I believe it was shared by Gail Gygax. A reminder of sweeter times. It seems - from an outsider's perspective - that it was the one constant through all the strife and outside noise.

  
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