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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9006021" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>To some degree. It suffers a bit from trying to be both a history and an art book, I think, and it does gloss over a lot of the controversies around the game in more recent times, which often directly involves people who are still deeply involved in the game. It tosses off a line about the 4e remodelling of FR as being 'controversial' for instance, which is like saying the Pacific Ocean is somewhat damp, and it goes into no detail about the controversies, the thought processes that led to the changes, the people championing differing approaches etc etc. Of course it's not a comprehensive creative history of D&D and never pretended to be, and you can't go into that sort of detail in what's basically a commemorative coffee-table book, but it also reads as if there's elements of walking on eggshells around issues that are a bit sensitive for WotC and their current personnel.</p><p></p><p>I'd buy the <em>hell </em>out of a legit creative history of WotC/Hasbro D&D from the takeover of TSR to the current day by someone like Ben Riggs, but this isn't it. And I'd seriously consider buying a massive and comprehensive pure art book, with full-page prints of all the best material from all eras of the game (including some of the jaw-dropping stuff that ended up on Dragon covers). The middle-of-the-road approach I'm not so sure about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 9006021, member: 5948"] To some degree. It suffers a bit from trying to be both a history and an art book, I think, and it does gloss over a lot of the controversies around the game in more recent times, which often directly involves people who are still deeply involved in the game. It tosses off a line about the 4e remodelling of FR as being 'controversial' for instance, which is like saying the Pacific Ocean is somewhat damp, and it goes into no detail about the controversies, the thought processes that led to the changes, the people championing differing approaches etc etc. Of course it's not a comprehensive creative history of D&D and never pretended to be, and you can't go into that sort of detail in what's basically a commemorative coffee-table book, but it also reads as if there's elements of walking on eggshells around issues that are a bit sensitive for WotC and their current personnel. I'd buy the [I]hell [/I]out of a legit creative history of WotC/Hasbro D&D from the takeover of TSR to the current day by someone like Ben Riggs, but this isn't it. And I'd seriously consider buying a massive and comprehensive pure art book, with full-page prints of all the best material from all eras of the game (including some of the jaw-dropping stuff that ended up on Dragon covers). The middle-of-the-road approach I'm not so sure about. [/QUOTE]
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