Gyax explains a magic item

Feeling melancholy about EGG's demise, so i thought i'd share this.

Long ago, i had a question about a magic item in a module EGG wrote, an
item that i couldn't find in the DMG or anyplace else describing its
powers, and decided to write him a letter asking about it. I almost
didn't send it, since some of my local gamers had claimed to have met
him at various Cons, and said he wasn't fan-friendly, etc.

But i wrote anyway, and Gygax was kind enough to reply. Here's what he
wrote to me in response to a query about a magic item called a "scarab
of protection from evil clerics", which appeared in the old "Descent
into the Depths of the Earth Module":

November 25, 1992

Dear Steve,

Many thanks for your note and kind words!

For the scarab try this: 7 functions of +7 on saving throws, 7 not being
"turned", 7 warnings that an EHP is within 70 feet/yards.

Hope you like my new material. Let me know if i can be of any further
assistance.

Magickally yours,

Gary Gygax



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"when i visited Aden before collectivization,
all the markets were full of fish product. After
collectivization, the fish immediately disappeared."

- Aleksandr Vassiliev, Soviet KGB official