Gygax interview

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A1IsQY2D4&t=766s&pp=2AH-BZACAQ%3D%3D&ra=m

With the DungeonDelver. Great stuff. 

Tidbits

• Talked about old TSR as corporate took over shoulda been more employee owned but the new top dogs wouldn’t do it (greed). And the cheapening of the books instead of the indescribable schhol textbook style stuff that the ad&d 1e was made from. 
• He like a Harry Potter (first one?) best. Lotr Fellowship of the ring was his second fav (it had just come out and he loved it but Harry Potter he had seen rt before). Said ti was a bit too long and the flutes and chanting of the elves felt a little wonky. REALTED he had mentioned humbly that he didn’t read the 1e DmG book in a long time. Rather read from another guy… sort of like being your own cook. Other people’s cooking is more interesting. 
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Loot needed - results so far

 After beating the hard Entrope and half the drow… don’t we need loot?

Should it be something the Entrope brought from ANY realm? Maybe as it FALLS APART into various elements upon death, the one thing it couldn’t eat was left behind. 

An amulet of plane shifting!

Golden, circular, as big as an outstretched hand open fingers. Has a green (then purple) glowing gem in the center supported by four golden … spindles/arms/fingers/bridges (what is the word?) …

POWERS - once a day it can bring two people to another dimension. Choose from Etherreal, astral, Prime material plane, ??? AND ONE PER WEEK can send 4 ppl  and return them same day IF they don’t miss the 24 hour limit. TAKeS 30 minutes to cast the 4 ppl version (Once a month or once a week).  

ITEM 2 from https://minvarpg.com/tools/loot-generator

Sphere of Infinite Sight

This item feels slightly warm.

Effect:

Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement). You can use an action to cast scrying (DC 17) with this sphere. The sphere can see across vast distances and into other planes. It has 3 charges per day.

THE DROW - atlre foimg to detect magic and realize the party has very powerful stuff. (Can u detect magic into bag of holding???). ANSWER - bag of holding hides it. UNLESS you open the bag of holding and they are detecting at the same time!!!!

RUIN EXPLORERS Anime gives Dungeon ideas

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DZVlsU8QDsQ&t=778s&pp=0gcJCaMLAYcqIYzv

Ruin Explorers (1995) likely has some good trap and dungeon ideas. See time 13:00 on this vid. But there is a LOT of goofiness and squeaky dub voices to get past. 

D&D Zero yt

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I54YA3qp64Q&t=877s

Dnd 0. Supplements.  Caltech’s addons. 

Imlike the art, dragon at time 14:47.

Dnd inspiration from Tarzan, the new adventures of (1935)

 On tubi.

Near end of first episode, maybe 27 min or 37 min… the shot of the ruins as an archway with giant vines hanging down. Large columns in a row to either side fading into the distant background. 

Some cool scenes and scenery. Ideas. The swarming savages. The ruins in the jungle. Sure there are some goofy parts, but a lot to be gleaned.  

Magic Schools by daddy rolled a 1

• https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvreYg6Cjk&t=2181s

Commenter- ericpeterson87… says 

• Book, Ursula LenGuin’s Wizard of Earthsea and the Isle of Roak. maybe started the schools thing in 1968
•   Master Chanter
• Master Namer
• Master Summoner 
• Etc  
• Those book(s) use True Names and other softer magic ideas, not Vancian. More art than science. 
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