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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 8432489" data-attributes="member: 6779310">I refuse to watch the video in the OP. Why? Because I'm sick and tired of witchhunts by both ends. By folk at both ends not understanding that now is drastically different from then.I watched the 2 hour GaryCon Q&A with Mr. Kask. He seems likable. He also is politically incorrect by modern standards. And he's not in favor of woke culture - and let that slip a couple times. He's openly derisive of 3.X fans and playstyles other than those he uses. None of those make him a bad man. He also admits AD&D development was fueled by whiskey and weed. That is an admission of a federal crime (albeit well after the statute of limitations limit expired), but even that doesn't make him a bad man.Is he a bigot? Doesn't seem to be. But probably is. To some degree, almost everyone is. I've watched kindergardeners self-segregate by ethnicity on too many playgrounds... Preschoolers, too.So, I went back to my DragonCD contents... and looked at the first year of Dragon. Different XP tables and ability tables for the same classes for female PCs? (Dragon, Iss 3., pp7-10)Entire classes gender restricted? Yep. Let's be honest: D&D in the early days was filled with Testosterone Poisoning. Because it was socially acceptable and socially expected.Tim Kask also noted one very progressive (for the 70's) thing: His wife worked to pay the bills, so he could pursue his career in gaming. Key thing? "She let him." He admitted dependence upon his wife's permission... a rare thing for that era.He, like most of us, is a flawed being. Doesn't make him bad. Just human. It is time that the witch hunting ends and the education begins. Think about collateral damage. Think about how the hunt for flaws can wind up hurting innocents working for/with them.</blockquote>

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