Gary Gygax and Mongoose?

CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 9:46 pm

I was going over some older issues of Dragon when I caught an ad for MGP Slayer's Guide to Dragons. More then that it was the writing credit listed Gary Gygax (and only GG). Anyone seen this book? This is the first I heard of it (don't know where I was when it came out, probably shovelling sand over my head.)
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Deogolf · Post by **Deogolf** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:01 pm

It came out a few years ago as part of their d20 Slayer's Guide line. I think it had a mini-adventure in it too. He also had one that focused on Undead - that one may have been co-written.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:40 am

They're both pretty good, as far as those sorts of things go... much better than the Slayer's Guide to Female Gamers of the Slayer's Guide to Rules Lawyers (and yes, both of those exist.)

Puckk · Post by **Puckk** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:50 am

serleran wrote:
They're both pretty good, as far as those sorts of things go... much better than the Slayer's Guide to Female Gamers of the Slayer's Guide to Rules Lawyers (and yes, both of those exist.)

Guide to female gamers?

Must be a really short book
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:53 am

Yeah, its like 12 or 16 pages. But, they say its not the length, but the breadth and depth of the insertion and immersion, as it were. I came out, knowing more than I ever wanted to think I needed to try and know.

gideon_thorne · Post by **gideon_thorne** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:07 am

Puckk wrote:
Guide to female gamers?

Must be a really short book

Ayup. In short it can be summed up with...

"Want to meet one of these rare creatures. Visit water more often than being rained on."
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rabindranath72 · Post by **rabindranath72** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:09 am

The book on dragons is quite nice, full of ecology details and "tweakings" on 3.x dragons. Not sure how much will work with C&C, though.

CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:41 pm

rabindranath72 wrote:
The book on dragons is quite nice, full of ecology details and "tweakings" on 3.x dragons. Not sure how much will work with C&C, though.

Oh, I was just wondering if it had nice fluff-stuff on Dragons (and specifically Gygax's version of their origins.)

A big speedbump for me bringing in D&D3 stuff is when the monsters have classes (dang near mandatory for some monsters there). After I'm done those things are big huge piles of XP with all those astericks and special abilities.

Make a goblin rogue/sorceror and turn it over to C&C and watch it poof with disproportianate xp.
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Jyrdan Fairblade · Post by **Jyrdan Fairblade** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:18 pm

My recollection was that it was relatively rules-light, aside from some rather vicious new dragons.

There was a lot of draconic strategy advice, much of it pretty darn crafty and effective, to the chagrin of PCs everywhere.

rabindranath72 wrote:
The book on dragons is quite nice, full of ecology details and "tweakings" on 3.x dragons. Not sure how much will work with C&C, though.

rabindranath72 · Post by **rabindranath72** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:25 pm

Jyrdan Fairblade wrote:
My recollection was that it was relatively rules-light, aside from some rather vicious new dragons.

There was a lot of draconic strategy advice, much of it pretty darn crafty and effective, to the chagrin of PCs everywhere.

Yes, there is lot of fluff. But the mechanical parts are not so easy to adapt to C&C (I tried).

Col_Pladoh · Post by **Col_Pladoh** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:11 pm

Merry Yuletide to All!

Those rotters at Mongoose failed to list my co-author, the Redoubtable Jon Creffield, a fine fellow and superior designer. Jon co-authored both of the guides I did for Mongoose, and he should be given at least equal credit.

Christmas best wishes,

Gary

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:26 pm

The Slayers guides did get a bit out of control, although there were some good ones... most were passable at best though.

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CharlieRock · Post by **CharlieRock** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:12 pm

Col_Pladoh wrote:
Merry Yuletide to All!

Those rotters at Mongoose failed to list my co-author, the Redoubtable Jon Creffield, a fine fellow and superior designer. Jon co-authored both of the guides I did for Mongoose, and he should be given at least equal credit.

Christmas best wishes,

Gary

Merry Christmas, dude.
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Col_Pladoh · Post by **Col_Pladoh** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:17 pm

CharlieRock wrote:
Merry Christmas, dude.

Thanks!

I have to pass along my good wishes at this time of year on boards and through emails as we never manage to organize and send out Christmas cards
Yuletide cheer,

Gary