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#1 zombiegleemax Aug 20, 2003 8:36:27	Since we did a thread on Carl Sargent a while back, I thought it fitting that we do one on Mentzer, one of AD&D's great writers. Anyone know what became of him?
#2 zombiegleemax Aug 20, 2003 10:10:36	Not sure. Penandpaper.net has his last credit listed as Egg of the Pheonix in '87.
#3 Halberkill Aug 20, 2003 12:03:01	He's been doing his Aquaria thing. I think he still has a website for it. Aquaria is a continent across the Solnor that Mentzer worked on, because of the whole Gygax/TSR tizzy, references to Aquaria were dropped in further Greyhawk products. He actually sold me some old shrinkwrapped 1st edition modules a few years ago, probably around 1996. Halber
#4 zombiegleemax Aug 20, 2003 23:07:34	Did Mentzer ever develop Aquaria? What about the modules he wrote? Something along the lines of a sourcebook perhaps? I remember reading somewhere that Aquaria was the offically recognized continent west of the Flanaess, so it would be cool to see what he created for it.
#5 grodog Aug 21, 2003 1:19:30	Frank's still around and on AOL. One of my too-many projects is to interview Frank for the Oerth Journal, and also to secure his permission to host the AOL Aquaria files on Canonfire! Thanks for the reminder, I'll ping him the next time I see him online :D
#6 zombiegleemax Aug 24, 2003 3:09:20	Frank still here? Frank no gone?
#7 zombiegleemax Aug 24, 2003 16:23:37	Gary told me long ago (over on ENWorld) that he is running a bakery w/ his wife in Northern Wisconsin
#8 grodog Aug 24, 2003 22:51:26	Yep. He also still runs Aquaria adventures on AOL (though he may have just finished up too), and chairs the Gen Con annual auction of gaming stuff.
#9 chaeros Aug 31, 2003 14:33:00	i would be interested to know about Aquaria. Where can you find information about it? Just from him, or did it ever get published?
#10 grodog Sep 01, 2003 2:15:46	The best source of Aquaria info appears in the module R4 Doc's Island, published by the RPGA in 1983. It's available from www.svgames.com and www.rpgnow.com IIRC. There's a four page history of how Aquaria was founded by mixed Oerid-Flan Aerdy stock c. 522 OR, although that clause contains the most pertienent info for most Greyhawk games since the rest of the history details how the Aquarians ("Aquaerdians") survived and developed in the new lands, east across the Solnor.
#11 Halberkill Sep 02, 2003 16:12:35	Actually, the cool thing about aquaria, is that the map of the lands itself is really quite small, and could easily fit on the coastline or one of the islands of the west of the Oerik megacontinent. Halber