New Gygax Biography

[Admin Pete]

A new (appears to be a biography) Gygax book with an available date of May 9th, 2017 is being published. See Rise of the Dungeon Master by David Kushner

The author, David Kushner, is reportedly an award-winning journalist and author of many books, including three on gaming. Reading the "About the book" blurb does nothing to convince me of the depth of journalistic diligence. YMMV

[dragondaddy]

Here is the article the book is based on;

archive.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2008/03/ff_gygax?currentPage=all

David played at Garys' place at least once.

[hengest]

I don't know that I expect anything especially good or bad, and I'm also not the most expert party...but it's possible for the author not to be the most experienced gamer and still a decent biographer? Maybe?

[Admin Pete]

Mar 2, 2017 15:48:22 GMT -5 hengest said:

I don't know that I expect anything especially good or bad, and I'm also not the most expert party...but it's possible for the author not to be the most experienced gamer and still a decent biographer? Maybe?

The article was much better than the blurb, he needed an experienced gamer to do a read for him.