Gary’s Comments (group member since Mar 13, 2021)

Gary’s comments from the Scott Kimak's Dungeons, Dragons, Spaceships, and Anything Inbetween group.

S.P. wrote: "Can I just ask, does anyone else like The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson? I seem to be the only one to have mentioned them so far."

I have the original trilogy in HC, they were all released the same day and I snapped them up. Love the world, hate the main character. That being said I need to go back and reread it. Come to think of it I may have the second trilogy in HC as well...now which box are they in....

Scott wrote: "Gary wrote: "I can't narrow it down. I will stick to fantasy this post..

The Hobbit and TLTR
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by Eddings
The Sparhawk series by Eddings
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
..."

You mean Robert Howard...Ron Howard is an actor/director. :)

I can't narrow it down. I will stick to fantasy this post..

The Hobbit and TLTR
The Belgariad and The Mallorean by Eddings
The Sparhawk series by Eddings
Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Xanth by Piers Anthony
The Lentari Books by Jeffrey M. Poole
The Myth Series by Robert Asprin
Shannara by Terry Brooks
Conan by Robert Howard

I have read almost everything by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I am currently rereading both the Tarzan and Barsoom series. Next up Tarzan 4 and Barsoom 2.

I will add a few more later.

My D&D career goes wayyyyyyyy back. I started with the original white boxed set. The group I played with in the late 1970s when I was going to law school at Valparaiso Ujniversity in Indiana was always taking road trips to Lake Geneva and chatting with Gary Gygax, his son Ernie and the original TSR crew. At their hobby shop they offered an invisible stalker figure for 40 cents. They actually got people who payed that for an empty plastic bag containg the "figure". It was our group that designed and ran the AD&D open at Gencon in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In later years I became friends with the late Mark Harmon who was one of the module writers for Runequest. His wife Sue VanCamp was one of the original artists for a little game called Magic: The Gathering. Unfortunately, I no longer game. Back in the day I ran a family of halfings the oldest was Groucho Baggitt. When I was away on breaks from school the DM ran him. The tales of groups going into parts of a local dungeon or cavern complex and finding the smelly cigar stubs on the floor by an empty chest and legendary. And yes his brother Harpo was a magic user that used a horn to do his incantations...honk...honk...hoooonk...he also carried a seltzer bottle that held 5 hit die acid. The DM warned my the Harpo should avoid falling into pits....grin.