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<blockquote data-quote="Warpiglet" data-source="post: 7795731" data-attributes="member: 6689161">Honestly, the article is interesting but does not change my opinion of gygax.Had it not been for his drive, organization, merging of genres, historical readings and codification of rules, the game would have been a weird thing some guys did in a basement in the Midwest that no one ever heard about.&nbsp; What I gather then is that arneson's group came up with ongoing characters with more roleplaying.&nbsp; Period.&nbsp;&nbsp; Codified rules, monsters and stats, drawing in of influences mostly came from elsewhere.&nbsp; The &quot;hunt and peck&quot; typist did not have the desire or ability to get it organized, put down in a format for dissemination.&nbsp; I still see gygax as the reason we have D&amp;D.&nbsp; I just have a more of a sense that he did not give enough credit for a collaborator.As a thought experiment, answer this.&nbsp; If someone had similar roleplaying ideas before gygax and arneson, would we know it if they had not written it down and organized it?&nbsp; We would not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warpiglet, post: 7795731, member: 6689161"] Honestly, the article is interesting but does not change my opinion of gygax. Had it not been for his drive, organization, merging of genres, historical readings and codification of rules, the game would have been a weird thing some guys did in a basement in the Midwest that no one ever heard about. What I gather then is that arneson's group came up with ongoing characters with more roleplaying. Period. Codified rules, monsters and stats, drawing in of influences mostly came from elsewhere. The "hunt and peck" typist did not have the desire or ability to get it organized, put down in a format for dissemination. I still see gygax as the reason we have D&D. I just have a more of a sense that he did not give enough credit for a collaborator. As a thought experiment, answer this. If someone had similar roleplaying ideas before gygax and arneson, would we know it if they had not written it down and organized it? We would not. [/QUOTE]

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