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🗓️ 19 March 2014
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Chapter 32: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Dungeons & Dragons creator E. Gary Gygax (Chris Tallman) to the podcast. Put down your dice, pick up your inhalers, and listen!
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0:00.0 | This podcast is intended as entertainment for grown-ups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18. |
0:08.6 | Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel |
0:14.4 | Mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of the |
0:19.5 | Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells. |
0:29.0 | Hello all and welcome to Chapter 32 of the Dead Authors Podcast. I am H.G. Wells, two parts author, one part time traveler, just a dash of podcast host, shake well and garnish |
0:37.1 | with a twist of lemon peel. Ah, now that's refreshing. My guest for this chapter of the podcast is E. Gary Gygax, the American writer and game designer |
0:46.9 | who gave the world Dungeons and Dragons. |
0:49.3 | According to my research, amongst Mr. Gygax's primary inspirations were science fiction and war games. |
0:56.0 | Now I know a thing or two about the former invented it, but I must admit a deficiency in first-hand knowledge of the latter. I decided to find out more about the |
1:05.0 | world of warcraft that gave birth to games such as D&D and World of Warcraft. And what better |
1:11.8 | place to start than the American Civil War? |
1:15.6 | Your silence speaks volumes, there is no better place. |
1:19.4 | My first job was Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and when I arrived, the battle that would ultimately launch |
1:24.8 | the war between the states was in full pitch. Everywhere I looked, cannon-blazed and muskets fired, |
1:31.1 | as an ever-expanding cloud of smoke encircled the fort overlooking |
1:34.8 | Charleston's picturesque harbour, the Union Garrison hold up inside, ably returned fire from behind |
1:40.9 | brick walls, 12 feet thick and 50 feet high. |
1:44.9 | I crept stealthily inside the bunker and sidled up beside a blue-suited chap who could only |
1:50.0 | be Major Robert Anderson, Commander of the Union Forces. |
1:54.0 | But before I could pick his brain about military strategy and concepts, |
1:58.0 | his bloody mobile phone went off. |
2:00.0 | I was absolutely thunderstruck until I took a closer look at the soldiers around me. |
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