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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8437229" data-attributes="member: 4348">I disagree...there's a BIG difference, and it also depends on how aggressive you are.However, Williams went after enough people that there is STILL bad blood today.  You need not look any further than those she went after to understand the scope of how angry people got.  Gygax DID go after some, but there are far fewer that are angry at him today than there are at Williams.  The reason is the scope and how fervent they were at it.  But I can see this thread is full of those who would Lynch Gygax if they had half a chance (at least that's what it appears right now) and so, anything I say is going to fall on deaf ears.If anyone ever wants to give a REAL re-evaluation, let me know, because right now the thread seems more of trying to Lynch Gygax to justify Williams than to actually really analyze the postives and negatives of what she did.That said, I DO unabashedly defend Gygax, and think that there are some misjudgements placed against him in this thread.  He was human and was not perfect, but I see there are many that do not understand (probably because they were not there and did not live through the events...at least that's my only guess) the WHY she is disliked by some individuals.Some it is pretty self explainable if one just stopped discounting their statements.I (and ironically) have probably posted the STRONGEST point in her favor (and in more specifics than the OP did in what she did for TSR I feel), but people are so intent on trying to argue against the negative things I posted that there really is NO debate on positives vs. negatives.I'll say this, Gygax was a great guy to gamers, and extremely nice to those who would talk to him and play in his games.  For those who never experienced him and his friendliness, this very forum has him where he answered questions and other things from gamers at (I believe he never got a cent for it) no cost.  He loved gamers and interacting with them and was cordial as anything.  This entire lynching of his character I feel in order to justify Mrs. Williams is really not called for...IMO.</blockquote>

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