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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 2294052" data-attributes="member: 10201">WRT subjectivity--until about 2002, i had no idea who Monte Cook was, and was really surprised to see all these people talking like i was supposed to know who he was. See, he'd always worked on stuff i had no interest in: Champions, Planescape, [i thought someone said RMSS?--nothing like that in pen&paper's database]. And, all the advance press on D&D3E said "hey, look, we hired Jonathon Tweet to write the new game" not "we hired Jonathon Tweet and Monte Cook and Skip Williams", so, while i assumed other people helped out with the new edition, it was marketed like Tweet was the big deal and primary creative force.OTOH, RPG people that i tend to assume have instant name recognition: Tweet, Laws, Gygax, Arneson, Stolze, Snead, Rein•Hagen, Stafford, Ron Edwards, Jeff Grubb, Ed Greenwood, Roger Moore, Trampier, Holloway, Tynes, Steffan O'Sullivan, Sandy Petersen--a fair few of which i'll bet actually aren't familiar names around here.</blockquote>