tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post8631901559634084546..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: This Old Dragon: Issue #97Timothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-56654556854512723912017-03-09T19:23:49.412-06:002017-03-09T19:23:49.412-06:00Awesome. That is kind of cool really.Awesome. That is kind of cool really.Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-75923370414551100442017-03-09T16:49:16.432-06:002017-03-09T16:49:16.432-06:00Gary Gygax seems to have been working off a descri...Gary Gygax seems to have been working off a description by Edward Topsell:<br /><br />http://penelope.uchicago.edu/oddnotes/topsellgorgon.html<br /><br />Topsell seems to have gotten his information from Athenaeus (who was quoting Alexander the Myndian):<br /><br />http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ath.+5.pos%3D401&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2013.01.0003Alea iactanda esthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951704235056042923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-42521140493072178062017-03-09T14:02:25.857-06:002017-03-09T14:02:25.857-06:00Gorgons, I think Gary decided to use Medusa as a r...Gorgons, I think Gary decided to use Medusa as a race instead of as a person. Once he did that the name Gorgon was freed up so he used it.<br /><br />I always thought it was strange as well, Medusa and her sisters should have been in Deities and Demigods as unique individuals rather than a race of creatures.Ruprechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00139664977453444000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-8531679014740380782017-03-09T11:04:03.272-06:002017-03-09T11:04:03.272-06:00I love the cover art of that issue.
There's ...I love the cover art of that issue. <br /><br />There's an adventure idea in that somewhere...Stelios V. Perdioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05466676702515521939noreply@blogger.com