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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8397867" data-attributes="member: 4348">I come more from the Gygax arena of gameplay early on, BUT I'd say that what is being attributed to the Hickmans was not actually something (in my opinion) that originated with them.Gygax was a type of playstyle you could say, or the dungeon crawler (but even with that, there were bounteous things that occurred outside the dungeon, as anyone who reads the AD&D PHB could discern with the titles, land ownership or rule, nobility management, etc), but you ALSO had Arneson.  To my mind his playstyle was in many ways the continuous adventure that you see in Dragonlance.He may not have had as big an impact publically as Gygax, but from what I have heard (never participated in them myself or was offered to participate) his was in line with how many see adventures today, going overland and going from one adventure to the next in a series of ongoing events.This playstyle was one that was played regularly even before the Hickmans.  Sure, most of it were probably each groups home self styled campaign, but it existed.  Hickman probably played in this playstyle already and just wrote adventures to cater to it, rather than inventing it or creating it...PERSONAL OPINION...of course.</blockquote>