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Couple of questions. I just got a copy of THE ROGUES GALLERY...

* Are any of the personalities detailed there from the Greyhawk
campaign, aside from the obvious (Bigby, Erac's Cousin, Mordenkainen,
Riggby, Robilar, Serten, and Tenser)?

                        Not sure. I'd have to look

* Are the stats on all the above-mentioned characters accurate? I think
I remember reading that EGG wouldn't give out his characters' actual
stats..? What levels have they attained? (Robilar is 19? Mordenkainen
is 23?)

                        I guess EGG changed his for some reason; but mine were straight up. Robilar is listed
                        as 18th level, but I'd have to look.

* This is the one I was really curious about: was god did Riggby serve?
What god did Serten serve?
                               
                        I believe that both worshipped St. Cuthbert, though Serten may have been worshipping Pholtus of the Blinding                                 Light (which of course has a humorous starting point in real life as a god/religion)

* What class was Terik? Is he fully detailed in WG6?
                       
                        Terik was a fighter; he is detailed in Rogues Gallery (I thought) as well as mentioned in WG6

* AND, why don't Ernie Gygax and Terry Kuntz ever come to these
boards? Don't they have any Greyhawk nostalgia? Regards.

                        Terry is a strange one---that's all I'll say; and EGG admits that both of his sons are very busy working their jobs.

Yeah, I looked too late in WG5 where Zag and Boc are the ones of choice, though
Pholtus or St Cuthbert may have ben skipped as well, just for sake of ease.

Terik is not in the Rg's Gallery, as that was for current employees and he was no longer with TSR by then; some that were not employess (maybe Tim Jiardini, (though he may have been working at the Dungeon Hobby shop then, I dunno) were part of the Lake Geneva regulars, though Tim adventured more in Kalibruhn than Greyhawk, as well as in Skip Williams campaign. There are a lot of "inports" in Rogues Gallery, waht with the fols like the Cooks, Moldavay, Schick, Wells and Hammeck who had moved to LG and really hadn't played in GH, but none-the-less had their favorite PCs form their own DnD campaigns. It's too bad a book of Greyhawk PCs and NPCs was never completed. I haven't seen WG6 in years (don't even own a copy, so if anyone knwos of a bargain somewhere, let me know) so I'm not even sure what EGG wrote about Terik in there, other than he was supposedly my brother (in the game, which was untrue) which is a literary contrivance based on the truth in real life.

Perhaps I need to do a write-up on Terik. He did contribute some good advntures alongside me and on his own or with the unholy three (Rb, Tk and Tenser). He also came up with the phrase: "I look up and down and all around," after one two many things (like 'lurkers above') had been dropped onto him by EGG. He thereafter said this before entering any room or open sapce in the dungeons. Of course that wouldn't work in today's game environment where you'd still have to roll to see if you see that orc that you're looking right at... Just kidding!

Rob

"Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light"

That would be the "Church of the Presumptuous Assumption of the Blinding Light of Faith," whose
ditty was:

Key of C:

"Oh Blinding Light,
Oh Light that Blinds...
I cannot see...
Look out for me!"


Which came from what comedy group and off of what LP?

Heh! (EGG step in when you want to, but bring your entrenching tool!)

Rob

My memory is starting to fail finally, after 48 years. If we could remember at least half of the memorable adventures, though I feel a recounting of the 18 hp Balrog which Terry's 6th level underling fighter slew with two hits while the Balrog rolled a 1 and a 2 to hit, respectively(remember us co-DMing that day in your basement Gary?)

Terry had led a party of newbies (out-of-town fans who had never played in Castle Gryhawk) to the 4th level of the dungeon and pulled a MAJOR wandering encountering. Later we joked about the thing chopping itself with one swing and entangling its whip with another, for it had first made a stupendous appearance (Gary rolled 12 on 2d6) by roaring loudly with its immolation. Terry shook his head (he was the only person with a magical weapon, a +2 sword) as he went forward to what he thought was certain death as the newby players cowered in the back of the corridor. Two rounds later he had dealt it two snmahing hits for 18 hp, and I've noted above the Balrog's responses to these (chop/whip).

Gary and I looked at each other, impressed, and we decided to roll the hp for the thing, as it was now turning into a real fight. EGG rolled the dice--nothing but one's and two's. We laughed upon noting the total: 18 hp. The Balrog fell over, dead. We shrugged and explained it away: No wonder the thing had been encountered on the 4th level; it had been chased from the lower levels by creatures more potent! So much for the reject Balrog. I'll probably write that one up for UoaSB.