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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 2:05 pm

A completely off-collecting-topic question that will probably get me moderated:

Is anyone aware of any video showing either Gygax or Arneson DM'ing a game? I searched around some, and only came up with a shaky-cam Youtube posting of Gary that lasted about ten seconds. Seems strange that nobody thought to record a session with either luminary at least once.

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:44 pm

Gygax was on the show "60 Minutes" back in '85

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:59 pm

He didn't run a game that I recall. I can double check the transcript, but I don't remember him DMing.

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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:57 pm

grodog wrote in Gygax or Arneson on video?:He didn't run a game that I recall. I can double check the transcript, but I don't remember him DMing.

Don't know what I am thinking of then. I thought they showed him running a game.

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:05 pm

Arneson used to DM games here in Orlando at SciFi City when he was teaching at Full Sail. They might have some video.

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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:35 pm

JasonZavoda wrote in Gygax or Arneson on video?:
grodog wrote in Gygax or Arneson on video?:He didn't run a game that I recall. I can double check the transcript, but I don't remember him DMing.

Don't know what I am thinking of then. I thought they showed him running a game.

Well, it being 1985 I'd take a bet that they were grilling him over D&D being a satanist cult.
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:20 pm

lucyjoyce wrote in Gygax or Arneson on video?:Arneson used to DM games here in Orlando at SciFi City when he was teaching at Full Sail. They might have some video.

I emailed them; we'll see!

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 6:32 pm

Only one I have ever seen is perhaps the one you mention, 37 seconds long Gary Gygax DMing White Box D&D - YouTube

I put this up as a topic on DF a couple years ago and no one seemed to have any other examples. I also saw it come up as a post on google+ recently and this was the only one that came up.

Would love to see more if they exist

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:30 pm

From SciFi City:

Not that I know of. To my knowledge, he ran some games at Sci-Fi back in the mid to late 90's. If you can find some, I'd be interested in seeing it!

Bleh. I still can't believe that nobody pressured either one of them to record a session for posterity. Though maybe they were pressured, and they resisted.

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:54 pm

Has anyone thought about asking his son Ernie? He may or may not know.

Surely there are vids from early Gen Cons? At least one would think there would be.

I went to a GenCon when I was a kid in 82 or 83 and I remember him being there and think he was running a game. I was 12 so it's been 30+ years

Surely in the heydays of early GenCons he ran a game or two and someone filmed it

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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 4:45 am

Surprised there aren't GenCon videos as well.
Anyone able to find anything out about videos?

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