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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9226642" data-attributes="member: 984">And neither may I be correct... my time machine is on the fritz again and I can't go back to ask Gary our burning questions.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; Add to that a third possible leg for our HP stool:&nbsp; the protesting too much might have more to do with the legal strategy/justification for AD&amp;D is not D&amp;D so I don't owe you any royalties... he knew it was a difference and wanted to highlight it in as much language as he could so that he could point to it should the ownership/royalty thing come to a head.&nbsp; Which is where I interpret it as a familiarity aspect, where the evolution of his game design is still tied to what he knows and has used before, relying on old tropes so to speak even if they don't quite fit anymore in the new 'paradigm'.&nbsp; And it may well be &quot;E - All of the Above in varying combinations.&quot;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kannik, post: 9226642, member: 984"] And neither may I be correct... my time machine is on the fritz again and I can't go back to ask Gary our burning questions. ;) Add to that a third possible leg for our HP stool: the protesting too much might have more to do with the legal strategy/justification for AD&D is not D&D so I don't owe you any royalties... he knew it was a difference and wanted to highlight it in as much language as he could so that he could point to it should the ownership/royalty thing come to a head. Which is where I interpret it as a familiarity aspect, where the evolution of his game design is still tied to what he knows and has used before, relying on old tropes so to speak even if they don't quite fit anymore in the new 'paradigm'. And it may well be "E - All of the Above in varying combinations." :) [/QUOTE]

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