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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8433844" data-attributes="member: 18">I think this is spot-on.I mean, I never quite understood the hate-train for Williams, because everything people listed as "bad" seemed to be fairly standard stuff, and she presided over my favourite edition of D&D in terms of content. Certainly I can't see the argument that Gygax was somehow "better" or more suitable for the role, especially not based on what Gygax went on to do, and based on Gygax's comments about what he thought D&D was about and so on. I suspect had he been directing D&D in the the 1990s, we would have seen D&D actually, genuinely turn into "just another system", and it would have lost market-leader status and probably never regained it, because he'd have pushed it further into being extremely specific and niche and old-school. This wouldn't even have pleased people who like OSR games now, I suspect, because the existence of this very old-school D&D might well have stopped them from ever existing, let alone branching into the amazing forms they exist in now.She certainly made some mistakes, everyone decision-making at TSR in that era did, but aside from the obvious personal deal with Buck Rogers, I can't see how she was a particularly bad. Not everyone whose company gets bought or who isn't making money is some monumental screw-up. A lot of the time they just can't find the path out - doesn't mean someone else could have - especially not Gygax of all people.</blockquote>

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