Here's something I found from an interview with Gary Gygax:
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What's the most entertaining character that you've ever played?
Oh, definitely the one I like the best is my mage, Mordenkainen. He's always been a lot of fun to play. Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, which Rob Kuntz wrote, is a somewhat altered and refined account of an actual adventure that he was on.
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