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Lorraine Williams: Is it Time for a Reevaluation?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8439654" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>This seems close but a little off.</p><p></p><p>3e WotC put Gygax and Arneson credits front and center in the new books and OGL as co-creators of D&D. </p><p></p><p>From the inside of my 3.5 PH "Based on the original Dungeons & Dragons game created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson."</p><p></p><p>In the SRD the credits are "System Reference Document Copyright 2000-2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid, James Wyatt, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson."</p><p></p><p>This seems more a promotion of Gygax and Arneson as game designers and not as people in charge of TSR. Similarly Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook were game designers in WotC and not executives like Peter Adkinson or Ryan Dancey whose names are not in the SRD credits.</p><p></p><p>Gygax was asked to write columns in Dragon/Dungeon and from what I remember they were about game stuff, not CEO stuff.</p><p></p><p>I think the promotion was on Gygax and Arneson as creative designers of D&D as a game and did not bring up stuff like their lawsuits or corporate decisions of TSR.</p><p></p><p>There is a line of CEOs going Gygax, Williams, Adkinson but that does not seem to be part of the narrative here, more that 3e was linking itself to D&D and the co-creators of D&D. You have to intentionally take other steps to bring CEO Williams into the narrative. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So Gygax and Williams were in charge of TSR in different times, but Gygax got primarily remembered fondly for his creative contributions to D&D as opposed to being primarily linked to TSR actions during his CEO tenure. Williams was only CEO of TSR so the only associations are to TSR actions while she was in charge. She has no goodwill and primary association from being a creator of D&D the way Gygax does.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 8439654, member: 2209"] This seems close but a little off. 3e WotC put Gygax and Arneson credits front and center in the new books and OGL as co-creators of D&D. From the inside of my 3.5 PH "Based on the original Dungeons & Dragons game created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson." In the SRD the credits are "System Reference Document Copyright 2000-2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid, James Wyatt, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson." This seems more a promotion of Gygax and Arneson as game designers and not as people in charge of TSR. Similarly Jonathan Tweet and Monte Cook were game designers in WotC and not executives like Peter Adkinson or Ryan Dancey whose names are not in the SRD credits. Gygax was asked to write columns in Dragon/Dungeon and from what I remember they were about game stuff, not CEO stuff. I think the promotion was on Gygax and Arneson as creative designers of D&D as a game and did not bring up stuff like their lawsuits or corporate decisions of TSR. There is a line of CEOs going Gygax, Williams, Adkinson but that does not seem to be part of the narrative here, more that 3e was linking itself to D&D and the co-creators of D&D. You have to intentionally take other steps to bring CEO Williams into the narrative. So Gygax and Williams were in charge of TSR in different times, but Gygax got primarily remembered fondly for his creative contributions to D&D as opposed to being primarily linked to TSR actions during his CEO tenure. Williams was only CEO of TSR so the only associations are to TSR actions while she was in charge. She has no goodwill and primary association from being a creator of D&D the way Gygax does. [/QUOTE]
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