GARY GYGAX Q&A PART XLVII

some of the perils Jim [Ward] had to face with me as DM, such as when a vampire had his PC
trapped. Darned if Jim didn't roll well enough to force the vampire to dust-mote form while I
couldn't hit his PC no matter what. [EGG] http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?
t=71486&page=14&pp=15

Generally the parties I DMed had one or more clerics, or at least a Paladin PC able to use some
cleric spells. My son Ernie's PC, Serten, got to be a fairly high level cleric. When I was playing I
usually took along my own cleric, Rigby, sometimes playing him as my main PC and not
merely a tag-along henchman. To me playing a cleric is more enhoyable that playing a straight
fighter, [EGG] http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71486&page=14&pp=15

I have played a good number of fighters, but I prefer to play a PC that can whip out a spell
now and again. My highest level PC is Mordenkainen, my last PC, created some five years
back, is a gnome illusionist-thief, with about four levels in each class. I had some fun playing a
half-orc cleric-assassin, but when he was killed the other (Evil) PCs with him simply looted his
corpse and moved on... [EGG] http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76849

The last special group of gamers to visit me from a distant place, summer before last, so as to
go on a wild adventure across the Flanaess of Oerth had a run-in with some super-wights that
drained one of their PCs. Luckily for them they were near Veluna, visited a temple there, and
for only about 90% of the wealth they had acquired along the way, those lost levels were
restored. If they'd have had a cleric in their party they would have been much richer at
adventure's end... [EGG] http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76849

When small parties adventured--well stocked with potions of healing and extra-healing--
often no cleric would be present, for the members were high level and had a lot of magical
goodies to cover them in crises. For example, Mordenkainen and Bigby would teleport away
in a pinch. [EGG] http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76849&page=2&pp=15

No potions were sold, but I was liberal in distributing them in dungeon chaches and the like.
Many a clerical scroll with various healing spells on them as well. [EGG]
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About one adventure in 10 was run in a city--Greyhawk or some other. If the PCs were
not seeking adventure when there for R&R, bringing it to them was no problem

The original map of Greyhawk city was one sheet of graph paper with colored boxes
indicating various places where PC would go--inns & taverns, armorers, money
changers & banks, gemners & jewelers, city buildings, guilds, etc. That was expanded
to two, then four map sheets, with the thieves' quarter and Rob's Green Dragon Inn
shown. I was working on a very large version some 20 years back, but I abandoned it
as far too detailed.

No version of the city that I designed has ever been published. [EGG]
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