Another Gygax anecdote.
I used to freelance for Fantasy Games Unlimited. Scot Bizar’s parents owned a game store in Stony Brook, and on Saturday nights he’d be substitute proprietor and host board games, RPG sessions, and miniatures games.
Around, ahhhhh, I’ll say early 80s, Scot had Gygax out. He had just moved back from California after working on the D&D cartoon, and was “out” at TSR. (That could help date this.) I was pretty-un-impressed by the guy due to his braggyness. Mentioned having wild parties, with pot mentioned, at his LA place. Scot did introduce me as a possible contributor to new ventures. This might have been around the time Gygax introduced his strange cyborg-soldier RPG game, which didn’t sound like my thing.
It was probably this that got me the convention-driver gig. The one fun bit I recall from that was driving Gygax & some convention officers back to the hotel, in a big towncar, and half-rolling, half-floating down this scary-flooding winding roadway. Gygax got a big kick out of that.
