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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RealAlHazred" data-source="post: 6729951" data-attributes="member: 25818">Originally posted by AbdulAlhazred:That was the impression I got. While I never met Gary personally I did know some of the people that were pretty active in the late 70's and did know the guy. He wasn't especially considered the easiest person to work with. Actually it seemed like he kind of annoyed the heck out of a lot of people and his rep has in a lot of ways evolved a lot in the decades since. So perhaps he and Don just ran into the kind of "Gary isn't going to yield on this." kind of situations that apparently came up, who knows? Reading between the lines I get the impression it was somewhat similar with Dave, he had some different ideas from Gary, and Gary wasn't one to compromise. Dave apparently wasn't one to fight about it and went on about his way. Dave was always known as a pretty low-key guy, but I think he was also a lot less invested in D&D as a project. I suspect he'd have been happy enough to just play his Blackmoor game and share it around with people. It was definitely Gary that had the ambition to make it a bigger thing. Anyway, I'm sure they were all fun people to hang around with. I'd love to have gamed with Dave (or any of them really), must have been fun times.</blockquote>