Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, book one I read

 It is good. Starts of with an action sequence… two wizards and a mob of fighter types fight them. Kinda funny. The idea around a copper or something 30 foot wire on a sword to thwart a lightning spell is interesting. Wished he didn’t use the word “stuff” when describing the lightning but i guess from the two heroes perspective it was a whatever thing… maybe.  Then again before that described as blue white ghostly fiery… semi translucent or something. And later states lightning plainly eh? 

WORDS TO USE IN DND

• Sniggered
• Fie fie
• A Wand to mean a quaterstaff.  Around page 35, the fiht on the deck of the Squid ship.  
• They began to drub away at each other with wands (quaterstaffs ). 

SPOILERS BELOW SPOILERS

Are there some were-rats or what?! I think the albino lady is one.  Let’s see… I am on page 31 or so.  After the double headed (one lrg one small) sea dragon with the rider mage with the German ish name.  And they see the ship was sank by rats including one white one. 

Easter Egg/Origins

• 3.5e dnd miniatures had the white albino wererat… I have it.  Related? Surely. 
• Hisvet has a pipe flute thing to inspire the rats = dnd pipe of the sewers.
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Interesting- Does the author like mice or … were-things?

• The Gray Mouser? Wereratz? 
• Fafhrd’s hairy chest (mentioned often, called ape by enemy). 

Lizardmen art fight

 Love the b & w art

https://1eonline.info/5ff/lizardking.htm

Also that old module w lizardman king is awesome looking for low levels. 

Next time G3

 Add some ant centaur types https://1eonline.info/6mm2/formian.htm#worker

They like underground. Think Altered Beast game. At odds with drow eh? 

Giant flies fun with jump defense (hit and run, no att of opportunity). Giant horseflies v aggressive and big as horse eh - https://1eonline.info/6mm2/fly.giant.htm#horsefly

Fireball-flies for sure eh - https://1eonline.info/d/m/fly.fireball.htm

Flailsnails are fun and have neat ideas/powers https://1eonline.info/5ff/flailsnail.htm

Elemental fish for evil elemental stuff perfect https://1eonline.info/5ff/khargra.htm they swim thru rock  

These Lava Children are WAY MORE interesting https://1eonline.info/5ff/lavachildren.htm

B&W Art, goblins on wargs interesting faces

 Never saw before 

These B&W goblin art good on wargs - https://1eonline.info/1mm/goblin.htm

Also near bottom cool solo yellowish one, more evil looking. 

Cthluhu 1934 sketch and recent redo

 

Lovecraft’s original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu#/media/File:Cthulhu3.jpg

This recent redo is “pretty right” in keeping the alien vibehttps://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/cf770t/cthulhu_sketch/?solution=19b5ea3d818e8ab819b5ea3d818e8ab8&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9eca654dc2523536e5afab413df5fbefb5f&jsc_orig_r=

Stygia art on the 1e adnd site is good

 https://1eonline.info/11mp/stygia.htm

They also have a lot of card art from like 2e days(?). 

Dire corby arr good mage https://1eonline.info/5ff/direcorby.htm

That Important Dreamlike Feeling of Possibilities

That Important, Dreamlike Feeling of Possibilities 

Sometimes places, literature, art (visual), music, or daydreaming can lead to it. It, the feelingc can be lofty and important to oneself. Maybe it can lead to better things for yourself, your family, or the world. 

Dream, the character in Sandman is dire, serious… yet he can dream. He admires those who dream big and put others before themselves. He might be overly passionate or impulsive, but he is honorable and will risk all to correct his mistakes once he realizes what they were. 

For a comicbook, it has pretty huge thoughts. What if there were a place with no suffering, no unjustness, no politics to corrupt people and things. Utopia? Or just people working together instead of against each other. Hell of an idea. Not easy, but nothing says it needs to be. 

EC Comics says Gygax; Crypt of Horror and Weird Science

This is cool quotes Gygax elephants museum warriors https://1eonline.info/1mm/elephant.htm#african

—-relevant below

 This explains well, and can buy : https://www.taschen.com/en/books/comics/08179/ec-comics-library-weird-science-vol-1/

Via

https://1eonline.info/1mm/gelatinouscube.htm

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Science_(comics)

Quote:
Originally Posted by taliesin15
Mr. Gygax:
Any thoughts on where Oozes come from? Especially Grey Ooze and Gelatinous Cubes--are these supposed to originate from the experiments of crazy evil wizards, or from Demons/Devils?

Heh...

As the chap that made up both of them, I had better have an idea as to where they came from 

My concept wasthat both were accidental creations of careless wizard alchemists that dumped various failed magical and alchemical experiments down the drain or into some cess pit. These admixtures affected single-celled life forms, thus eventually engendering the various jellies (and a gelatinous cube is one of those), oozes, puddings. The slimes were generated in similar fashion, the waste affecting normal slime.

Cheers,
Gary
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycanid
Ya know Gary ... I have been wondering about something on and off for some time now.

Who thought up the idea of the gelatinous cube? And was there a piece of fiction that sparked it? Or was it just ... jello? :\

The 'Cube was my cration. It was inspired by the amoeba and gelatin. Perhaps I also had in the back of my mind the old EC Comisc SF story about Mars being covered in dormand gookum, that stuff having devoured all other life forms on the planet. When the crew returns to earth they are feted at a banquet, with a dessert course of strawberry Jello. "Good Grief! It;s dormant gookum!!!"

How I loved those Weird Science, Crypt of Horror, and all the rest of the EC Comics line

Gary

Comments
thank you Gary.
We made a living jello G-cube joke on monday. Who knew we were so close to the truth?
For Gary
 
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mycanid
Care to share the story of the first time in the game you sprung it on the players? 

there was a group going through the 2nd level, and the fighter scouting ahead walked right into the Gelatinous Cube thinking some spell or gas was makinghis vision blurry. Only after that PC being nearly killed did the others note the "floating" coins and such.

That's about the best I can do recalling the incident after 35 years

Cheerio,
Gary

Comments
For the game
Wish I could have been one of your players. Thanks for everything.
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
Gary Gygax loves Gelatinous Cubes. Especially with Cool Whip.

Actually I prefer real whipped cream!

Cheers,
Gary

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Name Drizzt related to Draz’zt the demon prince of ad&d 1e?

 Is it related?

https://1eonline.info/6mm2/grazzt.htm

I mean he is an ebon skinned super demon fighter dude with the ability to fight with two weapoms… a sword and a pilearm. Maybe he was the inspiration. 

Cthulhu art

 Btw this cthulhu art is still the best  https://1eonline.info/4ddg/cthulhu.htm

Notice not one but three humans hidden in there

  

Catoblepas the funky monster from way back before DnD

 Read the 1e site… note the Gary Gygax quotes about it being not made up and from old medieval bestiaries https://1eonline.info/1mm/catoblepas.htm

Read and see all the extra books to chexk out around Imaginary Beasts and such from wikip about Catoblepas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoblepas

Like -

- The Catoblepas was listed in the Book of Imaginary Beings (1957) by Jorge Luis Borges. It is described as a black buffalo with a hog's head that is always looking down.

-The catoblepas is mentioned in The Shattered World (1984) by Michael Reaves:

Troas cleared his throat impatiently and Beorn looked at him. On his robe was a stylized design of a catoblepas, stitched in silver thread in a rampant pose. Beorn thought it looked faintly ridiculous.

YES THAT SHATTERED WORLD that I read in probably nonth grade in the library. 

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1844103.The_Shattered_World

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Rly good dinos, pbs, 1988 animated and real life. Phil Tippet’s

Part 1 has lots of English dudes so far- 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUW6HGQCpg

• Time 22:49 has that cool old painting… a bunch of tall skinny upright dinos, and one pinkish lizard-like meat-eater attacking one.  

Part 2 MIGHT be the BEST… HAS ANIMATIONS AND FAMOUS DUDES - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDUW6HGQCpg

3 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UDeojaTr9g&t=17s

4 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxB6BNRbQA&t=28s

And here is one copy of Tippet’s stop motion movie on dinos -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq7Lv3zrUak&t=98s

Full super cut of Phil Tippet’s Prehistoric Beast AND Dinosaur! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIY4H7cXztg

Pathfinder was fun

 Finally had some big battles. Was fun stomping some orcs. 

Burning Hands with the dmgnbuikd is awesome at this level 3 and it does 5d4+10, kinda insane. 

Memorized 3 times (sorc) and have spell focus object to cast again. And got pearl of power to cast again. 

Was nuking orcs like crazy. Tower at end had 4 orcs lined up to be hit by cone. Bam. 

Top of tower had orc boss. I cast Ghost Sound to make him think half a dozen human enemies were climbing up to get him. Made him waste a spell or two. 

At too, they cracked thru trap door made boss fall. I was still dwn there w fighter. We nuked it… and summoned dragon(ish) thing jumped on top of it too.