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#1 zombiegleemax Oct 27, 2005 0:06:42	Any new word on many of the original authors of many modules created in the 80's with TSR? I always wondered what happened to alot of these talented folks. I've been out of the game for awhile, now I see it coming back, with the help of computers of course. Many of the older modules are getting re-released of course. Any new noteworthy stuff is great, thanks! ;)
#2 valharic Oct 27, 2005 9:03:06	Try the Pen & Paper website. You can look up almost anyone who is or was in the business and look at a list of credits.
#3 zombiegleemax Oct 28, 2005 11:24:06	Gary Gygax is still making games. He has his Lejendary Adventures rpg out and recently released the first installment of the Castle Zagyg setting for the Castles & Crusades game. He's released a number of 3rd party adventures and supplements for d20, most recently the boxed set adventure Hall of Many Panes (which was dual statted with Lejendary Adventures) from Troll Lords. He is a frequent poster on both ENWorld.org and Dragonsfoot.org. Rob Kuntz is also still making games. He is working with Gygax on the Castle Zagyg project, and his first adventure for the setting, Dark Chateau, should be out any time (if it isn't out already). He's also done a lot of d20 adventures, the "Maze of Xaene" series for Necromancer, "Dark Druids" for Troll Lords, "Garden of the Plant Master" for Kenzer, among others. He is a relatively frequent poster at his own site, Pied Piper Press. Both Gary and Rob tend to throw a little Greyhawk-ish tidbits into their works. (For example, according to an old Dragon article by Rob, Xaene was the court mage for Ivid, and everyone should recognize the name of the old mad mage Zagyg.) James Ward is working on a new edition of his classic Metamorphosis Alpha rpg, and recently published a fantasy novel. He's a relatively frequent poster on Dragonsfoot.org. Len Lakofka seems to have dropped out of the gaming biz. He's an infrequent poster on Dragonsfoot.org. Frank Mentzer now owns a bakery in Wisconsin, although he recently announced he was going to start collaberating on an old tournament adventure with Gary Gygax. He's a frequent poster on Dragonsfoot.org. David Sutherland just recently passed away. I'm not sure where Dave "Zeb" Cook, Harold Johnson, Tom Moldvay, Allen Hammock, Law Schick, Jeff Leason, Doug Niles and the others are or what they're up to. Niles had a whole bunch to do with the post-Greyhawk/Gygax phase of 1e, and Cook was one of the big designers of 2e. Don't know what they've done since. R.A.
#4 ripvanwormer Oct 28, 2005 15:08:44	David Cook was one of the developers of the City of Heroes online thingy. He's in the computer games biz. Douglas Niles writes novels.
#5 mortellan Oct 28, 2005 18:46:42	At gencon this year I met Harold Johnson (I think that's who it was, my memory sucks). He was running a register at the auction and pointed out to me he was the author of one of the 1E mods I had acquired. That doesn't add much to rip's post but it does show he is involved with the gaming industry in some facet.
#6 zombiegleemax Oct 31, 2005 14:37:47	(I think that's who it was, my memory sucks). Memory problems huh? Sleep deprivation will do that to you. :D
#7 zombiegleemax Oct 31, 2005 14:46:17	Len Lakofka, Jim Ward, and another old O(A)D&D hand, Steve Marsh (the Blackmoor Supplement, the 1981 Expert Book, as well as some other stuff) have been contributing to Dragonsfoot's AD&D fanzine, Footprints. http://www.dragonsfoot.org/ft/ R.A.
#8 weasel_fierce Nov 01, 2005 13:11:42	Does anyone know what happened to the good Holmes and Moldvay of classic D&D fame ?
#9 qstor Nov 02, 2005 11:18:17	Does anyone know what happened to the good Holmes and Moldvay of classic D&D fame ? IIRC Moldvay posts on Dragonsfoot.org too. Mike
#10 zombiegleemax Nov 02, 2005 11:57:29	And yes, it was an interesting questions with interesting answers, as usual on greyhawk forums! One absent (for me ..) what about Jeff grub? he played greyhawk if i remembered well and wrote the manual of the planes, 1 ed, wich was the best 1ed book according to me (excuding MM1 2 & FF)
#11 ripvanwormer Nov 02, 2005 12:37:36	Jeff Grubb also wrote (with Bruce Cordell) the 3rd edition Manual of the Planes. Then he got laid off in the big Hasbro-ordained layoffs. I don't think he was ever much of a Greyhawk guy. He co-designed both Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms - the Dragonlance pantheon came from his home campaign, as did the name "Toril" for the Forgotten Realms world. I think his only big Greyhawk contribution was in designing Oerth's solar system in the Spelljammer boxed set, which he also wrote.
#12 Mortepierre Nov 02, 2005 14:20:33	On a sad note, Keith Parkinson just died (from leukemia, I believe) He was 47
#13 lord_olmac Nov 02, 2005 20:41:34	On a sad note, Keith Parkinson just died (from leukemia, I believe) He was 47 Well crap, that just is not right. I loved his work. All I can say is godspeed Keith, I know you are in a better place.
#14 orodruin Nov 03, 2005 4:06:09	On a sad note, Keith Parkinson just died (from leukemia, I believe) He was 47 Bummer! He was always one of my faves. I sometimes miss the days when he, Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, and Clyde Caldwell did a lot of the art for 1st ed ADnD (particularly Dragonlance.) Oh well, we'll always have his paintings to look at and cherish ("Lord Soth's Charge" is still one of my all time favorite DnD paintings.).
#15 zombiegleemax Nov 03, 2005 10:55:19	IIRC Moldvay posts on Dragonsfoot.org too. No he doesn't. Fid, DF's resident "ranger," hasn't been able to track Tom down, and where he is and what he's doing these days is a bit of a mystery. You're probably thinking of Frank Mentzer. R.A.