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Post by settembrini on Sept 6, 2009 17:25:11 GMT -5
Who were these guys? What´s the source nearest to Gary other than the DMG? Is General Leuk-O a PC of Luke Gygax?
Thanks!
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Post by GRWelsh on Sept 7, 2009 19:53:58 GMT -5
According to EGG, Lum the Mad was a name made up by Brian Blume, and not an actual character.
I'm not sure about Leuk-O.
The names Lum the Mad and Leuk-O first appear in Eldritch Wizardry. There are several names in that Artifact list that I think are homages to people in EGG's life, but aren't based on actual characters (although some of those people did play D&D at one time or another): Coat of Arnd of Tdon: Don Arndt, Leuk-O: Luke Gygax, Queen Ehlissa: Elise Gygax, Heward: EGG's cousin Hugh, etc.
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Post by settembrini on Sept 10, 2009 7:46:02 GMT -5
Ah, thanks a lot. I knew about Heward, Gary once wrote an obituary for the real person behind that. So I can set this into some perspective, great!
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Post by grodog on Sept 14, 2009 22:30:49 GMT -5
Tuerny = To Ernie, per some info Gary shared at some point in response to a Q I sent him. Apparently as an object lesson for the vileness of his current PCs (Erac's Cousin, and others?).
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Post by settembrini on Sept 17, 2009 8:41:07 GMT -5
Interesting, pretty interesting
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Post by foster1941 on Sept 17, 2009 21:54:35 GMT -5
I remember reading somewhere (that seemed trustworthy at the time) that when Luke was little Gary made up and told him a series of stories about General Leuk-o (the name a combination of Raiko from Japanese mythology (who was also the basis of the content of the stories) and Luke) and that the artifact name is an homage to that.
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Post by Scott on Sept 18, 2009 11:20:47 GMT -5
That seems likely. Ernie once told me a similar story. Not the same circumstances, but similar enough to indicate that such things did happen. I actually have the stories saved on an old e-mail somewhere. Ernie sent them to me to read to my kids with instructions to change the names and work my kids' names in there in a similar fashion.
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