TheAuldGrump
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Yes, really, at least in regards to the core three books.TheAuldGrump - are you saying that EGG was reticent in making strong claims on how the game should be played? That he was always careful to take into account everyone's possible playstyle? Really?
Look at his reactions to the idea of adding in Critical hits to the game. Or many, many quotes from Dragon or White Dwarf. Never mind stuff straight out of the PHB or DMG. Heck, reread the section on finding secret doors and tell me that that's not telling people straight up how the game is meant to be played.
As I said earlier, EGG was brilliant and I respect the heck out of him. But, he was never shy about telling people exactly how the game was meant to be played.
Knew I could find that bit about finding secret doors with a bit of effort:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...ilers-spoilers-everywhere-22.html#post5693495
Are you saying that this isn't exactly the same as what Wyatt did?
Again, that thing called a 'qualifier'.
Hey, guess what? Wyatt did not use them. And, yes, really, they are that important. So, yes, I am claiming that they are different. Clear on that now? You can disagree if you want - but the lack of qualifiers is something that can be empirically proven in the case of Wyatt's quotes, and qualifiers can be empirically proven to exist in the quote from the great demon Gax that is being hauled out.
I would also be more forgiving of Gygax than Mr. Wyatt - at the time Gygax wasn't up to the standards to which game designers are held today - there were too dang few to compare them.
It is likely that you actually have more respect for E.G.G. than I do - the one time that I met him (C. 1981) I was not impressed, he was by turns condescending and pseudo-unctious, filled with self importance. (A sin that I am, of course, completely free of....)
I can find plenty of quotes by him that annoy the heck out of me, including some in the DMG (the one about using only official D&D miniatures comes to mind), but that one flaw of unqualifying dismissal of playstyle is not one that I can lay to his door.
The Auld Grump