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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet-7" data-source="post: 8744045" data-attributes="member: 7025282">I am not saying arneson did not deserve any credit.Just not as much.  And you are right—you have to have an idea.  But as is the case with research, a lot of people have similar ideas fairly close together in time.  Did arneson share his earnings with the braunstein guy?  He might have—-I don’t know.But taking the idea and fleshing it out—-putting it together with other ideas and expounding might be more important than the initial spark.I think having an idea is great.  Not developing it and getting it out there is worth as much as a few electrons buzzing about a synapse.There may have been more basement dwellers doing this than we know back to the 60s.  But we only know about Arneson because of Gygax.</blockquote>