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Lorraine Williams: Is it Time for a Reevaluation?
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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 8439589" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>The thing is, she shouldn't have had to be in the public eye after her ownership ended. Her name should have faded into obscurity after she handed the keys to Adkinson. My point is that that didn't happen in part because WotC wanted to legitimize their ownership of D&D, and their campaign to do that ended up putting a face on what was just a name in the credits. By putting names and a faces on early D&D -Gygax and Arneson- and to a lesser extent on "modern" D&D -Dancey and Adkinson- they opened the door for the public to put a name on the recently gone 2e era. More so, by putting up a hero, they left a void open for a villain to be cast. </p><p></p><p>And well, why the double standard? either Lorraine was a driving force in TSR or she wasn't. You can't say she had nothing to do with the good and everything to do with the bad then say that because her actions she was indeed a villain. Yes, the boat sunk with her at the helm. Yes, under her TSR took many questionable actions, but do we know to what extent the bad actions where decided by her? Why blame her for failing to save a sinking ship when it was sinking before she was brought in instead of praising her for keeping it gong for longer than it would have otherwise? </p><p></p><p></p><p>Ironic, the guy who got the rights by pure cronyism accused Lorraine of having D&D because of nepotism... Stones and glass houses...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 8439589, member: 6689464"] The thing is, she shouldn't have had to be in the public eye after her ownership ended. Her name should have faded into obscurity after she handed the keys to Adkinson. My point is that that didn't happen in part because WotC wanted to legitimize their ownership of D&D, and their campaign to do that ended up putting a face on what was just a name in the credits. By putting names and a faces on early D&D -Gygax and Arneson- and to a lesser extent on "modern" D&D -Dancey and Adkinson- they opened the door for the public to put a name on the recently gone 2e era. More so, by putting up a hero, they left a void open for a villain to be cast. And well, why the double standard? either Lorraine was a driving force in TSR or she wasn't. You can't say she had nothing to do with the good and everything to do with the bad then say that because her actions she was indeed a villain. Yes, the boat sunk with her at the helm. Yes, under her TSR took many questionable actions, but do we know to what extent the bad actions where decided by her? Why blame her for failing to save a sinking ship when it was sinking before she was brought in instead of praising her for keeping it gong for longer than it would have otherwise? Ironic, the guy who got the rights by pure cronyism accused Lorraine of having D&D because of nepotism... Stones and glass houses... [/QUOTE]
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