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Richard Garriott

Creator of Ultima and co-founder of Origin Systems

How we know it's theirs

His 2016 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 3 posts and 21 comments from u/RichardGarriott, dated 2013 to 2017, most often in r/IAmA, r/gaming and r/SotA_Official.

Best moment

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Richard Garriott aka Lord British, creator of the Ultima franchise, Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar, and private astronaut. AMA about my new book "Explore/Create"!”

Remember that time you got killed at the bank? Was that beta? Strange how the chaos of UO made it so unique. Also, can I have 5 years of my life back? (jk, thanks for all the memories)

u/RichardGarriott replied

Oh, so well! It was at the end of the Beta, giving a speech in Trinsic, a person named RAINZ cast a fire field around me. I thought I was immortal... but I had forgotten to set the immortality flag months previously.

More moments

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I’m Richard Garriott aka Lord British, creator of the Ultima franchise, Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar, and private astronaut. AMA about my new book "Explore/Create"!”

So I always wondered... Why "Lord British"?

u/RichardGarriott replied

The summer I learned to play D&D, the group that introduced me to it made up nicknames for everyone else... They thought I had a British accent, which I don't, but since I WAS born in England the nickname for my characters became British, and then Lord British!

A redditor wrote in r/IAmA

On “I am Richard “Lord British” Garriott, creator of the Ultima franchise and Creative Director for Shroud of the Avatar. AMA.”

HI Richard, just a thank you for Ultima VII 1+2 and VIII! Both parts of VII have remained my favorite games since I first played them a few years after their release. VIII was the first one I owned myself, so I am also very fond of this, disappointed the expansion never got…

u/RichardGarriott replied

It was a sales related decision. Ultima VIII was the only Ultima to sell less than its predecessors. Assuredly due to it being rushed out, incomplete and buggy. Had we done our jobs correctly. Had I made the right decision. It would have been fine.