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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6232529" data-attributes="member: 27160">Thanks for the link! Led me into a fascinating trail of blog posts and discussions.In general my view would be that Rob was inspired by the totality of what roleplaying games could be and wanted to swallow the whole lot through D&amp;D. Whether such a vast vision could have succeeded in the market we'll maybe never know, but I think the narrower focus selected for the TSR line post-1977 probably had the clearest potential as a business. In a sense, his dream came true in the myriad of games and systems and worlds we now have available - as much toolkit as anyone might wish for, and more coming every day! Not all truly original, of course, but that's the world, for you...One thing I do find odd is that he speaks of RPGs exclusively as a business of the GM being the &quot;creative&quot; and administering to the players. That is a model that I have become gradually disenchanted with, and moving away from it seems to me to be one of the truly original developments in roleplaying in recent years.Finally - he really did inherit a writing style from Gary, didn't he! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 6232529, member: 27160"] Thanks for the link! Led me into a fascinating trail of blog posts and discussions. In general my view would be that Rob was inspired by the totality of what roleplaying games could be and wanted to swallow the whole lot through D&D. Whether such a vast vision could have succeeded in the market we'll maybe never know, but I think the narrower focus selected for the TSR line post-1977 probably had the clearest potential as a business. In a sense, his dream came true in the myriad of games and systems and worlds we now have available - as much toolkit as anyone might wish for, and more coming every day! Not all truly original, of course, but that's the world, for you... One thing I do find odd is that he speaks of RPGs exclusively as a business of the GM being the "creative" and administering to the players. That is a model that I have become gradually disenchanted with, and moving away from it seems to me to be one of the truly original developments in roleplaying in recent years. Finally - he really did inherit a writing style from Gary, didn't he! ;) [/QUOTE]

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