>>96311398
>Wrong, he answered several hundred questions about them over several years on dragonsfoot and enworld.
Only with extreme reluctance and because that's the only thing anyone there actually wanted to ask him about. He made dozens of posts begging people to stop asking him D&D rules questions, and even more posts complaining about "rulesplayers", but caved in largely because the whole point of him posting at all was to generate goodwill towards himself/promote LJ and telling everyone to just fuck off would have been a bad move.

>>96271985
D&D has plenty of rules. Rigidly defined, however, is up to debate.
It has plenty of advice (including lengthy passages right in the front of the DM's Guide) to change/modify/ignore the rules if you disagree with them, by Gygax's own words. He actually despised rulesplayers like you.

You're basically stuck. Most people don't treat Gygax as some sort of infallible authority, not even Gygax himself, and you want to act like everyone needs to rigidly follow what he said, up until he said something you disagree with.

>>95834696
Back in 2005, Gygax was still trying pretty hard to get people to play Lejendary Adventures, and that really colored his posts.

Any post that mentioned classes was met with "That's unfortunate, classes are such a limitation, AD&D really suffers from having classes. Luckily, LA doesn't have classes..."
He was also very bitter about WotC and encouraged everyone to break away from playing D&D, and maybe try his new game maybe...?

A little later though, WotC extended an olive branch (and money) to Gygax, and he changed 180 back to promoting D&D as the greatest game of all time, and definitely look forward to the upcoming 4th edition, and then-
*dies*