Luke Gygax

And I would say it's either Darth Vader-

... of, from Luke Gygax.

Yeah.

Come on.

I sides like other people, you know, 'cause I recognized what the truth was and, uh, with my own two eyes.

So, uh, and I experienced it, so I, I'm, um, somewhat looked kind of disfavor by the Gygax side for that-

Right

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It's, it's not...

A- and, and of course, Gary has said, "You know, and I'll pick on Dave.

He was as much responsible for this as me." But they say, well, well, yeah, well, Gygax has an event called Gary Con, the, uh, father of role playing games.

Mm-hmm.

They're really, um, that's a big passion of mine, always has been.

Um, I was a big Dungeons and Dragons player, and, um, when I was in seventh grade, uh, Luke Gygax moved from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin because his father, Gary, who created D&D, was in Los Angeles because they were doing a deal with Marvel Productions to do the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, which he was a producer on, so he was in Los Angeles kind of growing that And so, yeah, I, I still know, uh, Luke and I are still friends to this day.

In fact, we're gonna go see Iron Maiden on the 28th in LA.

And, um, yeah, I got to play a lot with, with, uh, with Gary.

We talked about Dragonlance coming back last week and the thing that Jim Manganiello, Weiss, and Hickman are all working on, and they showed us that last week.

Um, we know that Luke Gygax is working on Greyhawk.

We know that, um, um, I mean, names, names are going, um, Dark Sun.

That's the way, that's the way.

But basically talking about this is a long-term repair project, essentially, right? So, okay, again, I'm reading this stuff, and I know some people are just, like, have...

a complete vitriol or just venom but again you know to each their own but for me i'm like okay i'm listening i'm listening um in talking about having outside creators return so not just keeping it like keeping on the you know the blinders for example right so external partners back into official D&D we have we know we're going to get some new Ravenloft adventures Eberron Forgotten Realms books and that's all going to be due to third parties jumping in again which is that's a good thing I think at least to start and obviously the big thing that I like is the collaborations with some of those classic creators and bringing out Tracy Hickman, Luke Gygax, Ari Salvatore at D&D Beyond, and even having Joe Manganiello getting involved with a more decidedly old-school, grimmer sort of project.

Again, all this is talk and sort of posturing right now, so...

I can understand why some people think, hey, this is all a bunch of BS.