D&D General Not the Wicked Witch: Revisiting the Legacy of Lorraine Williams

[TiQuinn]

Somewhat related to the REMF.

Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put on KP.

 

[Mistwell]

I don't think it's etiquette to discuss specific instances of when people choose to block each other. On a general note, I will say that when I block people, it's not them, it's me. I do it when future conversations are unlikely to be productive and likely to get stank on the forum. I do it as a form of self-discipline, in other words, and I suspect that is often what folks are doing. I wouldn't assume that it's personal.

It is when you reply first, then immediately thereafter click block. It's not like Snarf doesn't know I get notified he replied, but then cannot view the reply. If he were doing it for himself, he'd just do it and not say something quoting me before hand, knowing how the notification system here works.

 

[TiQuinn]

In fairness, I used to be one of those people. It was only when I kept seeing that the histories were disproving the received wisdom I had been told that I had to reevaluate my position.

It was also a situation where Gygax circulated at conventions as well as on forums around the web, telling his version of events.

 

[Hussar]

Has Williams ever agreed to some sort of interview to tell her story?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

...painful.

My thought when I was hearing all of it? Gygax hasn't run these ideas by counsel yet, has he? He is simply assuming that things work a certain way, because that's what he wants to believe. But beliefs are not the same as the law.

IANAL, but I've had to explain to too many people over the years that "because I don't want to" is not a legal argument, no matter how much you threaten to hold your breath.

It's astonishing the number of nominal adults who refuse to believe this.

 

[Parmandur]

Has Williams ever agreed to some sort of interview to tell her story?

I know Ben Riggs reported in his book thst he tried, and said he would love to do it, but no.

 

[el-remmen]

I know Ben Riggs reported in his book thst he tried, and said he would love to do it, but no.

I hope that if she ever does, it is with someone other than Ben Riggs.

 

[Parmandur]

I hope that if she ever does it is with someone other than Ben Riggs.

Fair.

 

[Umbran]

It is when you reply first, then immediately thereafter click block.

Mod Note:
Even after a mod warning about publicly threadcrapping this rather than reporting, you keep talking?

Fine. This thread is no longer your problem. You're done here.

 

[MGibster]

have a love for the old D&D materials, and, yes, for Gygax's purplish verbiage (I know, shocker) that will never abate. I may write about this in a longer post, but I will always be thankful to him for the hours upon hours of joy that the materials he made gave me.

It might have been Polybius (the historian not the mythical video game) who said something like, "As a historian, I must praise my enemies when they do right and castigate my friends when they do wrong." Gygax is always going to have a special place in my heart because of his contributions to D&D. There's room for him in my heart while I simultaneously recognize the bad things he said and did. Likewise I can appreciate Williams for what she did while recognizing what she did wrong. If I had to work for someone, I'd rather work for Williams than Gygax.