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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 5388343" data-attributes="member: 4275">This post really blew me away, I just have to address it.You forgot Gods, Demigods and Heroes and its AD&D descendant, Deities and Demigods.So, "all" Jim Ward did as a writer was Metamorphosis Alpha, Gamma World and Deities and Demigods. Books I own, run and reference today, 30 some odd years after they were written. I know its been the new hotness to bag on him since Fast Forward but since we're specifically talking about "old school design credits" here, I think if your name isn't Gygax, Arneson, Perrin or Miller that Jim Ward might be the next most significant designer of old-school games. Certainly not worthy of being summarily dismissed. So, if we ignore Red Box, BECMI and Temple of Elemental Evil, he's not really that significant.Got it. Leaving aside his status as "first full-time employee of TSR", which Kask was, and I'd be willing to guess he wasn't making Gary's coffee... Kask isn't a writer, he's a developer and editor.Specifically, he was a developer/editor of Basic D&D and AD&D, and first editor of Dragon Magazine, running the most significant gaming publication in history for its first three years. A) I call those very significant credits on their own and B) given the state of most books editing, I think having an honest to god editor in the company is a PLUS, not a MINUS.</blockquote>