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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RFisher" data-source="post: 1590063" data-attributes="member: 3608">It was an evolution. Charles Adiel Lewis Totten wrote a game for training army officers. Dave Wesely applied ideas from it to wargames and started Braunstiens. Dave Arneson, inspired partially by Perren & Gygax's* Chainmail, morphed the Braunstien idea into the Blackmoor campaign. He found the Chainmail rules lacking for his purposes, so began making & compiling new rules. Gygax was impressed by the Blackmoor campaign, borrowed Arneson's rule notebook, and wrote up his own set of rules influenced by them. Then started his own Greyhawk campaign.And none of this was in a vacuum. Lots of other people contributed along the way, though their names don't end up in the histories. (I've seen both Arneson & Gygax mention Wesely in interviews, but his part is often left out of the retellings. I'm not entirely clear how Barker fits into the mix, but his campaign shouldn't be forgotten either.)Gygax was the driving force behind codifying the D&D rules and getting them published. Whether it might have happened differently doesn't take away from the fact that he did it.Love it or hate it, there is no denying the importance of OAD&D to the hobby. While those books represent the work of many people besides Gygax, there is a reason his name is on the cover of the MM, PHB, & DMG.Those accomplishments alone have earned him the respect of many gamers. Certainly he has accomplished more than that.He's not perfect. He's made mistakes. He's had failures. Still, he's earned a seat of honor in the industry.I can't compare & contrast to Richard Garfield, because I know nothing about him.(*Gygax has said Chainmail was primarily Perren's baby that he made some contributions to.)Don't take my word for it, though. I've probably made mistakes. Research it yourself.</blockquote>

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