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That may be, but I provided at least one example of what I was talking about. And I am sure that if I wanted to I could find more. Those qualifiers are present, and they limit, or soften, the criticism for the listener. I did not hear any qualifiers, that I can remember, from the interviewees...

I don't have a lot of prior narrative about really any of the "villians" of TSR. I can see how it would be hard to shake those prior ideas, and I think it is cool @Snarf Zagyg that you've been able to do that. It isn't easy. She kept D&D afloat till it could get into the hands of another...

I would say that was my take as well. I didn't realize that there was a differentiation between them in terms of how TSR folks felt about them.

perhaps I conflated them when I have listened or read anything about them. It seemed they were all disliked. Yea, being a startup, essentially, they didn't have middle management yet.

My assumption about Williams I guess is based on what I've heard from gamers who talk about this, they have not been charitable towards her. So it was a guess, as I said (though I used the word assume, it was a guess at best - as I stated I am only half way through the podcast, hopefully that...

the thing that i find interesting so far (im on ep7) is that while everyone they talk to who worked for TSR intellectually knows Gary was not being his best, they have nothing but contempt for the Blumes (and I assume later Williams). And yet, it seems that Gary planted all the seeds of...

Im sure I'll have more to add, but one thing that has really made an impression on me is that Gary was destroyed by getting all he ever wanted, so to speak. He got the success he so dearly desired, and it was not good for anyone, for long. I think I'll be happy with the ability to putz around...

i am about 1/2 way through, looking forward to the review, and will same more then

At one job I would tell new hires: The quickest way to learn to do this right is to do it wrong.

I want to say too that I am glad I saw this thread. I want to start a local gaming club at the library. And one of the things i want to do is create a GMing course for any who are interested. This thread helped reinforce the idea that I need to define terminology I want to use in my...

I agree 100 about the need to define terminology, especially in RPGs. I learned this lesson from watching 30 years of the the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature, in particular my favorite Senator, Ernie Chambers. He frequently hammered home the crucial idea that in order for a law to be enforceable...

I am both bummed and delighted. Equal parts. First, cause I am sure this thread will level off in the next week or two, thank you to all who participated in this thread. I loved reading all the speculations, and I just loved being involved with a long thread, basically from the beginning of the...

So this thread brought me back to an interest in tropes and using them for gaming as I mentioned a couple pages back, but one i forgot till the discussion of "Jedi and Order" starring Lenny Brisco as a tough but lovable master, was that of sitcom. At one point I was trying to figure out the...

so you are emotionally attached to something? ;)* Id say there is a difference between competency and "stupid". All of the jedi we've seen in the Acolyte are very competent, at their jobs. They know very well how to handle lightsabers, and the force. We see that. They can fight as well. Indara...

I am not concerned with the other live action shows. I am talking about the acolyte, in an acolyte thread. Alternatively, I think the point about the Jedi from the beginning is that they were stupid, short sighted, and thought they were the ones to bring balance to the Force*. It is the Hubris...

You call them acting stupid. I call them being flawed. Because that is what I see. People making suboptimal choices because of things we dont' know about their past. There is a good example, I think, in this series alone. When we first see the Jedi entrance scene to the Coven. Indara seems...

this is my only real point here. Sol is human, that is obvious. hell he screamed "I am not emotionally attached" if that don't scream emotional attachment, I don't know what does. AND that is what I love about this whole show. It shows us people in a system, and both the people and the system...

that sounds like a season 2 to me!!!

i'd say it is because they are in a story, and that is what the story wants. That may not work for you and your wife. Alternatively, I mean, how many of us, outside of a nerve wracking experience would have acted "smarter". I know there are many instances in my life when stress was high, that...

totally true. We don't know she talked with the JC, but she at least said she did, and initially refused to interfer with the coven. I was impressed with that. It puts both her and the JC in a better light than it appeared at the beginning of the series. I appreciated too that Sol had to...