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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arilyn" data-source="post: 9651584" data-attributes="member: 6816042">Gygax was complicated. He worked very hard to support his family at the insurance company and then escaped into wargaming on the weekends. Kinda understandable. He lost his job, maybe from using the company's equipment for his hobby? We'll never really know. Then, poverty, a struggling cobbler business in the basement, and a continuation of his hobby. Gygax also struggled greatly with his religious beliefs, at one point, deciding to abandon wargaming to pay more attention to family and church. TSR and huge success hits. Gygax wears himself out working, on top of all the drama. From personal accounts, he could in turns be extremely generous and affable or a tyrant. He drifts away from the office. Hollywood calls. Terrible business and personal decisions are made throughout the years, and boom. Reading the book and listening to the podcast causes a roller coaster of emotions. In the end, I feel sad for Gygax, like watching a tragedy unfold. In his later years, however, he seemed happier, like he could just be a gamer again. Lorraine is similiar in some ways. The staff were relieved when she took the reins, and at first she seemed like a pretty good boss. Her personality seems mercurial, however, and she too ends up turning a lot of people against her. Lorraine ends up making some big errors, some understandable and some baffling. But gotta love all those box sets. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😊" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60a.png" title="Smiling face with smiling eyes    :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Thanks for the summary, [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER]. Always enjoy me some history.</blockquote>

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