Two great interviews from two great British RPG writers.

Phil Gallager talks about what it was like working at TSR UK, and what the atmosphere was like when Gary Gygax was ousted and Lorraine Williams took over.
http://randomwizard.blogspot.com/2013/11/philip-gallagher-interview.html


Graeme Davis worked with Phil after he joined Games Workshop in the mid 80s. He talks about two different historical supplements he did for two different companis (TSR and Steve Jackson Games).
http://randomwizard.blogspot.com/2013/11/graeme-davis-interview.html

You are awesome.  Keep this coming.  Hey!  Go find out what Al Hammack is up to.

Yes, some really interesting material here.

I knew so little about TSR UK & GW I found the whole thing interesting.

Keep up the good work.

Thanks so much! B10 is still my favourite module of all time. Great to hear from one of its authors.

The only thing about those interviews that I don't like, was having a knife being twisted into my nostalgic memories; it reminds you how big RPG games were in the UK in the 1980s to early 90s with TSR UK and Games Workshop; early White Dwarf how I miss thee!

GW is huge in the UK but I have no reason to ever venture in anymore. If GW still carried RPGs and made them would it really does its business harm, or would I go in and perhaps buy something like many others? I mean, I don't smell, I'm not fat, I occasionally have a short beard and my hair's pretty smart and yeah I like post-punk and metal music but I also have two kids and a job! I wouldn't have thought I'd scare an potential teenage clients off with their middle-class parents that much; unless I'm wearing my Marx or Maggie 'the wicked witch is dead' t-shirt of course!

Thank you for letting me post these here, and reading. I really feel that I have not done the people interviews justice as I don't have a great deal of traffic coming to read them.
But I haven't seen anyone interview these giants from the 80s RPG scene since Grognardia went silent, so I figured asking them for an interview and having a record of what happened back then "from the direct sources" is better than not asking them for an interview.

Graeme Davis is the last interview I had on the plate, so there won't be another interview for a while.

Quote from: random-wizard;709526Thank you for letting me post these here, and reading. I really feel that I have not done the people interviews justice as I don't have a great deal of traffic coming to read them.
But I haven't seen anyone interview these giants from the 80s RPG scene since Grognardia went silent, so I figured asking them for an interview and having a record of what happened back then "from the direct sources" is better than not asking them for an interview.

Graeme Davis is the last interview I had on the plate, so there won't be another interview for a while.

No, really, thank you!

Its great that you post here.