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As far as I know, that's the only statement he's made to that effect and the only one that's been thrown around here ad nauseam. Apologies if I missed something important.

I don't doubt he actually said this. Personally, what people do will always trump what they say. Despite making comments like this, he did in fact hire women very early on that went on to do some really neat things for the hobby. For me, that's what's important.

Yes, yes, I think we've covered Gary was being an &*#$ and made a mean, sarcastic statement once. TO DEATH. I was asking about anyone addressing the actual foreword.

Wow, talk about demeaning TSR's women and their output to the game... From this article:

I've tried to keep up, but there are a lot of posts! No, I haven't seen your posts or examples, but will certainly dig around for them, thanks.

To be fair, it was one complaint. The other 5000 posts were responding to others' questions that have asked me directly. :LOL:

Same way I knew A Modest Proposal was satire the first time I read it? More like, "I don't think he was ever noninclusive since he made an effort to hire female staff members and seemed to really value their input, so having the opposite picture painted in the foreword is irksome."

An example of him being inclusive, but failing, then trying to understand why. My understanding is it was a harmless (but slightly uncomfortable) way to teach new players to be weary of wearing unidentified equipment.

No it isn't? That's from the foreword to Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons.

A positive fun fact I learned today while reading up on Gygax that I didn't know: There was a little girl named Natasha that wrote Gary letters in crayon. In one, I guess she asked for a spell that made people laugh, so he made one for her and named it after her: Tasha's Hideous Laughter. :LOL:

Has anyone who knew Gary personally come forward and supported this foreword? So far, I've only seen violent opposition. Any proof to the contrary would go a long way in swaying my opinion.

@Hussar Yes, I'm the one who posted it... Personally, I don't think anything written in the foreword accurately reflects Gygax or his intentions accurately at all. Further, I haven't seen anyone who had worked for him or gamed with him back any of these statements up.

Again, that statement was made sarcastically and in no way reflects how he treated women in real life. I've seen countless positive examples of Gygax's actual behavior towards women, so far zero negative ones.

The foreword stating he was a misogynist is what I'm pushing back on, which it looks like we both agree on. If it stated your entire first sentence I wouldn't even have taken issue.

I'm glad they issued the apology, but kind of wished they shared their reasoning for being nasty in the first place. I'm just so confused how they could take WotC's hard work that was given to the community for free, then badmouth that same company as they resell their tweaked version of it...

How has Dragonslayer been going? Picked up the PDF and love it, but am worried about the lower "to-hit" chances. Is it really offset by using correct tactics?

Oh, neat! It's not really a stretch to think he might have had Tiamat in mind even if it wasn't written down, but that was still a fun read.

Also, regarding: A more charitable interpretation could be he was cognizant of how that was going to be taken by Women's Lib, but since it was based on Tiamat, a female dragon, he was sticking with it.

I did!