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7/9/2025, 7:14:41 PM
>>96047700
>actual D&D with the playstyle it was designed for
By people who weren't exactly perfect with their designs.
Appeals to Authority/Tradition etc., especially when done by people who don't actually know how older games were actually run, don't really amount for much.
>actual D&D with the playstyle it was designed for
By people who weren't exactly perfect with their designs.
Appeals to Authority/Tradition etc., especially when done by people who don't actually know how older games were actually run, don't really amount for much.
7/8/2025, 10:44:35 PM
>>96041729
>in the polite way that follow-ons from an author who has released non-disastrous major works gets
A flat out lie.
Something Happened and Good as Gold are both incredibly well-regarded, and while his later books seemed to slowly decline in quality, they're still more than good enough to show that he was a great writer. While none are as highly regarded as Catch-22, to be fair to the man, very few books are.
>This isn't exactly a secret history.
Like Einstein being a poor student, right? You have a weird way of accepting bullshit easily, which explains why your entire world-view is askew. It's just bullshit you want to believe on top of more bullshit.
>this general is about old-school D&D
So it's important to actually understand it, and the people who created it, rather than trying to deify them.
>passing over all the work Gygax did on it
A lot of the work he did on it was bad. Even by Gygax's own admission. When the man you're trying to deify as perfect is the first to admit that he made mistakes, where exactly does that leave you?
Gygax being a midwit is not a purely terrible thing. Midwits are by definition average, and he had just enough intelligence to read books even if he didn't have enough to really write them. That basically forced Gygax to rely on better and more imaginative writers for most of his ideas, and that turned out to be a good thing for the game. Imagine D&D if it didn't have Vance, Howard, Zelazny, or Anderson prominently in its DNA.
>in the polite way that follow-ons from an author who has released non-disastrous major works gets
A flat out lie.
Something Happened and Good as Gold are both incredibly well-regarded, and while his later books seemed to slowly decline in quality, they're still more than good enough to show that he was a great writer. While none are as highly regarded as Catch-22, to be fair to the man, very few books are.
>This isn't exactly a secret history.
Like Einstein being a poor student, right? You have a weird way of accepting bullshit easily, which explains why your entire world-view is askew. It's just bullshit you want to believe on top of more bullshit.
>this general is about old-school D&D
So it's important to actually understand it, and the people who created it, rather than trying to deify them.
>passing over all the work Gygax did on it
A lot of the work he did on it was bad. Even by Gygax's own admission. When the man you're trying to deify as perfect is the first to admit that he made mistakes, where exactly does that leave you?
Gygax being a midwit is not a purely terrible thing. Midwits are by definition average, and he had just enough intelligence to read books even if he didn't have enough to really write them. That basically forced Gygax to rely on better and more imaginative writers for most of his ideas, and that turned out to be a good thing for the game. Imagine D&D if it didn't have Vance, Howard, Zelazny, or Anderson prominently in its DNA.
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