dcas
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Duke of Pennsylvania, Knight Commander
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Post by dcas on Mar 13, 2008 11:20:48 GMT -5
I want to hear more about Erac's Cousin's Wife's Brother-in-Law's First Cousin Once Removed!
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Post by rossik on May 26, 2009 20:12:52 GMT -5
super mega necromantic raise dead! guys, what system was that? if 1ed (just players ahndbook),a warlock is a 8 level MU, and the text say he was a 6 level warlock.. im a little lost, as im trying to translate to portuguese thanks for your help
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Post by Scott on May 26, 2009 20:26:48 GMT -5
6th is an error. It should be 8th.
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Post by rossik on May 26, 2009 20:43:28 GMT -5
thanks scott!
(wow, 5 years since you wrote it, heh?)
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Post by Scott on May 26, 2009 21:36:36 GMT -5
Time flies. Erac's Cousin has always been a favorite of mine.
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Post by rossik on May 28, 2009 18:42:20 GMT -5
anyone knows how old was ernie?
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Post by Scott on May 28, 2009 19:17:05 GMT -5
I think Ernie is around 50 now. I'd have to look it up or ask him to be sure, though,
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Post by rossik on May 30, 2009 20:12:38 GMT -5
its me again! just finished translating it all..have some translation notes on it, but just to make it clear to people who do not know greyahwk very well if anyone whant to see scott's article in portguese, please visit me at www.modulosrpg.blogspot.com so, scott, a couple more questions: thi MMII states that the characters that released Fraz were a m-u and a cleric, but it seems that erac's cousin partner (aylerach) was a fighter, wasnt he? also, the face with golden tears was a statue too, or a floating magical face? did ernie told you all of this? if so, i suppose you have met him, because i have never seen he on the internet (sorry if im saying something wrong, im very curious but also very tired of typing )
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Post by Scott on May 31, 2009 11:34:55 GMT -5
According to Mark, who played Aylerach, he was a fighter, but Gary said he remembered him as a paladin. The face was not a statue, but a bas-relief carving on the floor, or maybe a wall. I’ve met Ernie. I worked with him a little bit early on when he was working on the Gaxmoor adventure, and I still keep in touch. Hopefully I can get him to play a character in a game if I run one at the next GaryCon.
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GT
Wizard
Duke of Indiana, Knight Commander
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Post by GT on May 31, 2009 11:37:00 GMT -5
Howdy! The face with thegolden tears was based off of an A. Merritt story (one of Gary's favorite authors) called "The Face In The Abyss". It was a bas relief face, carved in relief from either a wall or floor in Castle Greyhawk's dungeons... don't remember which. And yes, Aylerach was a fighter. Perhaps Gary was taking one of his liberties in retelling that story in MM2! ^__^
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Post by rossik on Jun 1, 2009 6:51:51 GMT -5
thanks guys!
oh, my fellow gamers loved the story, congrats on the text, scott!
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Post by Scott on Jun 1, 2009 7:02:26 GMT -5
Thanks Rafael. Glad you enjoyed it.
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foster1941
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Post by foster1941 on Mar 14, 2019 15:10:02 GMT -5
In the Gail Gygax interview/article that was posted last week at video-gaming site Kotaku, one thing that stood out to me was a photo of a couple of index cards with some minimal character info - presumably Gary's reference copies of character info for PCs in Greyhawk. The first card is for a character described as "Ern's M-U" (aka Frank) who apparently only made it up to 4th level. the second, more interesting, one is for "Ern's Cousin," also a M-U, who made it up to 11th level despite only having a 9 Int (the 17 Con presumably helped). A note in the corner says "Erac." It seems likely that these are the cards corresponding to "Erac" and "Erac's Cousin" and that the name-change (along with EC's class and alignment changes) came later, either on a different index card or after Gary had stopped using this index card system.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 14, 2019 15:44:34 GMT -5
I didn't even notice that the first time I read through it. Thanks, Foster, for pointing that out.
Specifically, in regards to Erac's Cousin who owns it?
Ernie?
Gail?
Or D&D owners?
I wonder if all three could get a deal to make something out of this? That would be cool.
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Post by Scott on Mar 14, 2019 16:23:08 GMT -5
WotC owns the character I think, maybe with his inclusion in Rigues Gallery.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 14, 2019 16:49:44 GMT -5
I recall Scott talking about getting attention for classic D&D background, specifically Erac's cousin, almost twenty years ago. I had put a link to Scott's webpage, if I recall correctly, and I did some weird computer graphic of Erac's cousin for the write-up Scott did of the information that he received from Ernie.
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Post by grodog on Mar 14, 2019 16:59:57 GMT -5
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Post by Scott on Mar 14, 2019 17:38:21 GMT -5
I know EGG didn’t mind changing names to make a better story. The Black Reservoir story was released in August of 74 and that was “Erac”. I think. It’s possible he made the change while writing that.
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Post by grodog on Mar 15, 2019 9:06:56 GMT -5
In the Gail Gygax interview/article that was posted last week at video-gaming site Kotaku, one thing that stood out to me was a photo of a couple of index cards with some minimal character info - presumably Gary's reference copies of character info for PCs in Greyhawk. The first card is for a character described as "Ern's M-U" (aka Frank) who apparently only made it up to 4th level. the second, more interesting, one is for "Ern's Cousin," also a M-U, who made it up to 11th level despite only having a 9 Int (the 17 Con presumably helped). A note in the corner says "Erac." It seems likely that these are the cards corresponding to "Erac" and "Erac's Cousin" and that the name-change (along with EC's class and alignment changes) came later, either on a different index card or after Gary had stopped using this index card system. Great find, Trent! Allan.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 15, 2019 11:07:35 GMT -5
I didn't see it there. Just a bunch of dead links. I think I had a copy on my website but my old AOL Hometown website on Wayback Machine is a burnt out husk like that.
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