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I would be curious to learn if Williams took the issue to TSR's board of directors. It did occur to me that Gygax himself had a major...

Oh no, it's very self applied.

"We're here to play games, not to have fun!" Seriously, though, it's unlikely that anyone with the attitudes displayed in the comic...

Way too much is made over the Buck Rogers stuff, IMHO. Buck Rogers was sunk cost two or three years in the rear view when the whole...

To be honest, even now I don't think it is obvious that it couldn't have worked at the time, if done the right way.

Obvious to you and me and obvious to a woman who literally came from a family fortune founded on Buck Rogers IP, and who really didn't...

Uh-huh, yeah. And these are all pretty much things you get to do when you closely own a company. With the Blumes AND Gygax bought out...

That latter criticism is one that I've never understood, at least not from an ethical perspective. She owned a genre-based game design...

I think you are thinking of Original D&D or possibly the pre-AD&D Holmes Basic set. In Moldvay Basic (B/X Basic) and Mentzer Basic...

Just got here but, maybe the reasoning is that you're suggesting that Ms. Williams actions were unethical as opposed to a legal course...

I believe Snarf is just trying to demonstrate that the simple narrative of Gygax vs. Evil Lorraine is not correct. He's saying that once...

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I've never heard anyone say that B/X was confusing or that 1E was better at alleviating...

I've not gotten into as much of the OSR stuff as I probably should considering how much I prefer the pre d20 game. I've been dreaming...

MOSTLY agreed, although Reaction Rolls certainly matter in B/X, and a high Charisma can certainly help with those even if you don't use...

I'm not particularly interested in wading into whatever is going on here, but that take is explicitly not what is in the B/X rules nor...