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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8443104" data-attributes="member: 18">Good article again!To me, going on this and other bits I've read, it seems that, despite being a bit of a useless so-and-so work-wise, Arneson invented or popularized what, to me, to groups I've played in, is what we really enjoyed about RPGs, and which was broadly applicable to multiple RPGs, which is a certain approach to DMing, to world-building, and so on, and it's one that EGG has both railed against in unequivocal terms, and also sort of seemed to almost-agree-with at others. In general though EGG has given the impression that his ideas re: how D&amp;D and DMs should be were far narrower and even slightly repulsive to most people who run RPGs (including a lot of OSR people) - I mean, the less said about Role-playing Mastery the better. They say &quot;Never meet your heroes&quot; which is probably good advice (though I was behind Sigourney Weaver in a queue at a bookshop once and nothing bad happened except her smiling bodyguard looked at me in a &quot;Don't try and ask for autograph, bro&quot; way), and nothing disillusioned me about Gygax as hard as that book. I read it at 13 and I was already too sensible and too experienced as a DM for it. Awful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8443104, member: 18"] Good article again! To me, going on this and other bits I've read, it seems that, despite being a bit of a useless so-and-so work-wise, Arneson invented or popularized what, to me, to groups I've played in, is what we really enjoyed about RPGs, and which was broadly applicable to multiple RPGs, which is a certain approach to DMing, to world-building, and so on, and it's one that EGG has both railed against in unequivocal terms, and also sort of seemed to almost-agree-with at others. In general though EGG has given the impression that his ideas re: how D&D and DMs should be were far narrower and even slightly repulsive to most people who run RPGs (including a lot of OSR people) - I mean, the less said about Role-playing Mastery the better. They say "Never meet your heroes" which is probably good advice (though I was behind Sigourney Weaver in a queue at a bookshop once and nothing bad happened except her smiling bodyguard looked at me in a "Don't try and ask for autograph, bro" way), and nothing disillusioned me about Gygax as hard as that book. I read it at 13 and I was already too sensible and too experienced as a DM for it. Awful. [/QUOTE]

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