Anonymous
7/21/2025, 11:07:06 AM
No.96144633
>>96142909
>it sparked from some ideas he and a french rpg designer whose name I forget dreamed up
>In any case it was written wholesale by Zeb Cook and Gygax was disappointed with the end-product as his and the french dudes notes were more or less ignored and the french dude wasn't brought on to write it despite being a big name.
François Marcela-Froideval, died last month. Gygax actually write an intro for Froideval's version that got pulled due to TSR meddling.
It was originally meant to be a Greyhawk supplement that added areas to western Oerth.
OA, PHB2, the Thief-Acrobat, the original samurai class, MM2 and early BECMI world stuff were Froideval's ideas or partly his ideas.
He also edited Casus Belli magazine, wrote for the Black Moon Chronicles comic and did the writing for a bunch of Cryo games.
>it sparked from some ideas he and a french rpg designer whose name I forget dreamed up
>In any case it was written wholesale by Zeb Cook and Gygax was disappointed with the end-product as his and the french dudes notes were more or less ignored and the french dude wasn't brought on to write it despite being a big name.
François Marcela-Froideval, died last month. Gygax actually write an intro for Froideval's version that got pulled due to TSR meddling.
It was originally meant to be a Greyhawk supplement that added areas to western Oerth.
OA, PHB2, the Thief-Acrobat, the original samurai class, MM2 and early BECMI world stuff were Froideval's ideas or partly his ideas.
He also edited Casus Belli magazine, wrote for the Black Moon Chronicles comic and did the writing for a bunch of Cryo games.