The great +Joe D asked the following question during tonight's game session:
What ever happened to Carl Sargent, the man who defined Greyhawk for AD&D 2e?
So, does anyone know?
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Apparently he dropped out of sight once his experiments in parapsychology were shown to be a fraud.
ReplyDeleteThat occurred before his work for TSR, though, with Susan Blackmoore's article about his lab being written in 1987.
DeleteSeriously? i never heard that one. I wish there was some firm proof one way or another.
ReplyDeleteThere's a thread on the Wizards boards from over a decade ago asking the same question.
ReplyDeleteThere is a report in the thread that Roger Moore claimed that Sargent had been in a bad car accident and was unable to continue working due to his injuries.
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