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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8437141" data-attributes="member: 30438"><p>This may be heresy, but in the 80s I barely clocked who Gary Gygax was other than the name on the inside of my books. And I didn't even know who Lorraine Williams was until after Wizards had purchased TSR. Heck, I had briefly dropped out of the hobby and completely missed the T$R/C&D phase, and only found out about that after the fact. Back then it would not have occurred to me to pick up an RPG book based on who the designer was, rather than the content itself.</p><p></p><p>I didn't start to really pay attention to the people and history of D&D until the early 00s, when you started seeing columns in Dragon magazine written by him again, documentaries about D&D like Uber Goober and Life with the Dice Bag, and interactions with him here (which I can say that mine, while limited, were always pleasant; though I can't even begin to imagine being a woman gamer and reading him say my brain isn't wired to enjoy RPGs). But I'll admit, that like many others, I took the narrative the Lorraine Williams "drove TSR into the ground" at face value. I didn't start to question it until I realized one - just how early her stewardship began and two - just how much misogyny is present in gaming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8437141, member: 30438"] This may be heresy, but in the 80s I barely clocked who Gary Gygax was other than the name on the inside of my books. And I didn't even know who Lorraine Williams was until after Wizards had purchased TSR. Heck, I had briefly dropped out of the hobby and completely missed the T$R/C&D phase, and only found out about that after the fact. Back then it would not have occurred to me to pick up an RPG book based on who the designer was, rather than the content itself. I didn't start to really pay attention to the people and history of D&D until the early 00s, when you started seeing columns in Dragon magazine written by him again, documentaries about D&D like Uber Goober and Life with the Dice Bag, and interactions with him here (which I can say that mine, while limited, were always pleasant; though I can't even begin to imagine being a woman gamer and reading him say my brain isn't wired to enjoy RPGs). But I'll admit, that like many others, I took the narrative the Lorraine Williams "drove TSR into the ground" at face value. I didn't start to question it until I realized one - just how early her stewardship began and two - just how much misogyny is present in gaming. [/QUOTE]
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