Did anyone run anything for Gygax Day?

[thedungeondelver]

I ran a "Lost Abbey of the Fire Opal" adventure. The party made it to room 3 with 50% casualties (two characters, including the party cleric, dropped to sub-zero hits). They did however capture one bandit

[Guy Fullerton]

Serendipitously, our normal campaign game overlapped Gygax Day.

The party explored into a new region of my current dungeon (having cut down the cephalo-spider beast who patrolled the area, last session); got some loot, information, and a magic axe; provoked the wrath of a many-headed Rottweiler statue; killed a death dog, a hell hound, and a yeth hound (sensing a theme there yet?); sacrificed a pet hawk in determining the ominous warning above a portal was indeed serious; held a warren of giant rats at bay with a speak with animals spell; and ended up with enough xp for a couple characters to train for the next levels.

[Falconer]

Are there multiple Gygax Days? I didn’t see anything about it in advance, so I didn’t even know it was a thing till afterwards. Where do you get your marching orders about this sort of thing? I just don’t know.

[Guy Fullerton]

Not sure it's much of an organized thing. I saw some people mention it earlier yesterday of Facebook. And Luke mentioned his dad's birthday a day early. Since our bi-weekly campaign day happened to land yesterday, I decided to join in with posting.

Edit: And in case it wasn't clear, yesterday was Gygax's Birthday.

[grodog]

Serendipitously, our normal campaign game overlapped Gygax Day.

We game tomorrow for our regular campaign, too, so nothing last night (although I wrote a new blog post about Castle Greyhawk @ https://grodog.blogspot.com/2017/07/the ... art-1.html which seemed like a fitting substitute

Allan.

[Chainsaw]

Sounds fun!

I wanted to, but it's a busy time of year at work, so no gaming during the week, unfortunately.

[bobjester]

Wednesday is our D&D night, but other than that, I didn't do much except battle an acute case of the IBS and a massive headache, all while trying to read the rules for a new board-game "Kill Shakespeare" last night.

Unfortunately, the headache prevented me from reading much after skimming through a few emails & topic notifications from forums, and setting youtube to Pink Floyd - my brain had had it.

[francisca]

My 15 year old played 5e with his buddies, but they had no idea it was Gygax day. My son knows now. That conversation was followed by: "We need to play AD&D soon....", so we played last night (saturday night).

[grodog]

We game tomorrow for our regular campaign, too, so nothing last night (although I wrote a new blog post about Castle Greyhawk @ https://grodog.blogspot.com/2017/07/the ... art-1.html which seemed like a fitting substitute

Our regular campaign PCs make it back to civilization and were able to train and level, which was good.

The boys and I didn't play or work on their Castle Greyhawk PCs this weekend (we watched some movies and caught up on a bunch of errands), but plan to play this coming weekend.

Allan.

[thedungeondelver]

I'm kicking off White Plume Mountain this Thursday for a group at a local store - but then that's out of range of Gygax Day. Still...for a lot of them it will be their first 1e experience. For some, it won't.