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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8663588" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's pretty rough reading, though Peterson is lighthanded with his reporting.I think Snarf was right that Arneson's stock suffers more from the book than Gygax's, just because Gary's already been taken down a few pegs in recent years, and I think Dave's still often regarded as having been cheated out of credit in the past, and his own foibles have seen less daylight.But yeah, it really looks like Dave had a brilliant idea but virtually no ability to propagate or explain it in writing, and Gary turned it into an actual game and thing that could be shared across the country and the world.There was still plenty of bad stuff about Gary that I hadn't seen in as much detail too, though.  From his terrible ego, prickly pride, and unnecessary feuding with parties like GAMA and Origins, to his hands-off deferral of responsibility as President and CEO for years, wasting money and enabling the Blumes to waste still more. And the group of them repeatedly cheating good employees out of promised stock options while letting folks like Jack Sloan rip off the company to an absurd extent.While both guys had amazing qualities, for those of us who saw them as idols, they certainly turned out to have feet of clay.</blockquote>