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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MulhorandSage" data-source="post: 166076" data-attributes="member: 751">Well, I thought Monte hit a bullseye the first time I read the piece, and my opinion hasn't changed on rereadings. I've always found that gaming jazzes the design process, and I know I don't design as well as I do when I'm actively gaming.Another thing I wish authors did more is verse themselves in the classic literature of the genre. The best authors are well-versed in classic fantasy and science fiction; the one thing I like most about Gary Gygax's work is how evocative it is of the styles of certain authors whose work has been ignored by the modern canon (like Clark Ashton Smith). It was gratifying to see the recent poll where so many people expressed appreciation for Fritz Leiber. We don't need to necessarily need to clone the classics, but a greater appreciation for how the pulp masters perfected their craft would do many designers an enormous amount of good. And it wouldn't hurt some gamers either. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Scott Bennie</blockquote>