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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 100890" data-attributes="member: 530">I'm curious about Dave Arneson.  Gary Gygax is an icon, and rightly so, but we hear much less about Dave Arneson.  I don't know the history around this and was wondering if someone could fill me in.  Why is Gary Gygax so much more often given credit for the game than Dave Arneson is?  It seems like Gary Gygax is often given sole credit for D&D.  What role did each of them (and perhaps others for that matter) have in the creation of the game?  Is there an incongruence between perception and history?I hope I'm not offending anyone or bringing up any touchy issues here.  It's certainly not my intent - I'm just curious and hoping that someone could clue me in.</blockquote>