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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9653143" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As someone who has never been particularly fond of the things I've heard about Gygax...Yeah, a lot of this just makes me sad, not really all that angry. It sounds like his past sufferings (poverty, religious concerns, wanting to break free of his constraints, etc.), coupled with his inability (primarily via inexperience) to grapple with the rapid rise and then equally rapid falloff, put him in an extraordinarily difficult position--and unfortunately, he ended up taking a less than positive path from there. Pride goeth before a fall, and everything I've ever read of Gygax's personal writings indicated he was a very prideful man. (Not that I find this too surprising; he wasn't much older than my father, and my father was a likewise very prideful man.)I know little of Ms. Williams, other than that a lot of people strenuously dislike her. It sounds like she may have been a good fit for dealing with the faults Gygax brought, but the faults she subsequently brought were still damaging, just differently so.I definitely think that Gygax has gotten more than a little lionization...or even idolization...over the years. Still, he was, in fact, a man, and often the idol image does not even remotely match that man.</blockquote>