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TROLL LORD GAMES wrote:

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Gygax Games has withdrawn all licenses from Troll Lord Games. This includes Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds, Gord the Rogue, King of England King of France, C&C Adventures as well as Castle Zagyg. This is a note from Gail:

"A fond farewell from Gail Gygax:

I want to thank all at Troll Lord Games for the joy, laughter, and support they gave my late husband these past eight years. Many of you are wondering what is in store for various worlds created by Gary. To that end, I have, with TLG's good wishes and blessings, embarked on a new journey.

Gygax Games will now take up the mantle as the vehicle for the continuation of Gary's unfinished works, plus the Lejendary Adventure™, Castle Zagyg™, and Gygaxian™ Fantasy Worlds product lines. There are lots of fun surprises ahead!

This does not preclude Gygax Games from working the Troll Lord Games and I hope to do so in the future. To that end, I look forward to seeing everyone in Lake Geneva in the summer of 2009 for the convention!

So to Steve, Davis, Mark and Peter - I thank you."

I cannot really comment on the whys and wherefores of this decision. Obviously TLG had planned on publishing Gary's material for several years to come, but this is not to be. TLG and Gary had a great run I think, and I personally am very proud of our achievements and still marvel at what we, Gary and the TLG crew, managed to do in the past eight years. On a personal note working with Gary was always a pleasure and I looked forward to his emails, sitting on his front porch, having a smoke and chatting the world away. He was a good friend to me and I'll always remember the first toast we made in the Old Town Serbian Café. Here's to you Gary!

So now what for TLG?

First we finish the last two projects we are working on for Gary and tie up the rest of the loose ends. Upper Works is still being produced and sold through TLG. We'll ship a limited number of copies into distribution on the 13th of November. We will continue to sell them through our website. They will not be available on Amazon as the time to get it entered and the trouble it takes to remove items is too much and our number of copies that we can sell is too limited. The reason we have not released this into distribution is we keep selling into our distribution copies. I have to ship a minimum to meet demand or ship none at all. This plays into our Box maker which I'll get to shortly. The second items of Gary's we are wrapping up is the series of articles How it all Happened. These we'll finish in Crusader 13 which should ship out this week or early next.

Once these two items are done we'll have only the back stock on existing GFW titles and Gord to move or sell.

Everything has to be moved out by December 31, 2008.

Geleg wrote:

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I can't say I'm surprised by this, but I will say I'm saddened. I liked the UW box, and Jeff T. seemed like an awesome acolyte for Gygax's work. Plus the Trolls also seem to be standup guys, and I bet it's gonna hurt them to lose CZ.

Gygax games has a website now, complete with forums: gygax games. Strangely, maddeningly, or wisely (take your pick), they have made exactly no announcements concerning the future of any of Gygax's work (save the now old news about LA).