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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 6348540" data-attributes="member: 87576">I'm still laughing at the histrionics that you have employed here.It's clear Gary was an outstanding entrepreneur who synthesised various ideas from David Arneson et al (including his own) and then created a product for sale. In doing so, he not only created the RPG hobby but his ideas provided the foundation for the CRPG/MMORPG industry. And that's an amazing achievement.But what happened next was really a textbook example of what also happens today when real entrepreneurs fail to grasp what skills they lack due to a range of reasons from egotism to an inability to work with others to a lack of self-awareness to wishful thinking. I wouldn't presume to say which of these applied to Gary - and it's also none of my business - but I think your histrionics glosses over the fact that this still happens today.And while full credit does go to Gary for his achievements, I also think it's fair to say that someone else would have invented the RPG before long. After all, there are, in a sense, a lot of monkeys banging away on typewriters! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>