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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 7687824" data-attributes="member: 10479">Legacies can live on if they are tied to celebrations and good times.  They can also be damaged by the actions and efforts of those in charge of them.  The statue design is gauche and will be an eyesore if constructed as shown.  It should have been erected in a simpler form years ago.  Whoever has advised her to make this complicated and difficult can see the results.  If it were simplified it could be done yesterday, then time and effort could be put toward the written materials portion of Gary's legacy.  The thing is, everyone has a legacy and putting up Gary's statue and handling Gary's legacy is actually someone else's legacy.Print on Demand has virtually no overhead.  It allows previously published materials to be evergreen and always available.  Even if nothing new from Gary's unpublished materials are brought to light (which I would think many people would want), it makes no sense that the minimal step hasn't been taken of making previously published materials for which Gary had rights available in POD format.  POD sales of previously published materials could have already generated a half a decade of revenue to be put toward the statue or for organizing and publishing previously unpublished materials.Not everyone shares the opinion that all there is now for the legacy is for it to begin to fade.  You've been white-knighting someone who is generally believed to be getting really bad advice and the positions you hold regarding legacies also seem to be really bad advice.  When people look toward the Gygax Memorial Fund to see how the legacy has been handled since Gary's passing, opinions may differ on the aesthetics of the statue design.  Fair enough.  But there is no doubt that it could have been made simpler and therefore less expensive, and thus might already be constructed.  It's also true that if they look toward the fund to see what has been done regarding Gary's previously published (stuff for which he held the rights) and unpublished materials they will find nothing old reprinted and nothing new made available in any format.  The website is lacking and the transparency that once was cultivated has fallen away for the last couple of years.  Even you must know that not being advised to keep up the transparency and website makes, at the least, her advisers look less than adequate if not bad.  Why would YOU not drop her a line regarding the obvious problems?  A quick glance at the website and it jumps up and pokes you in the eye (screencap below).  Impossible to miss if you have her interests at heart and glance over the website for less time than it takes to read this thread.I did a quick search before writing this post to see what your opinions were regarding Gary's legacy closer to his passing.  Do me a favor, check out those old posts of yours before responding to my post, if responding is even crossing your mind.  We don't really need to have a back-and-forth if your opinion is essentially unchanged.</blockquote>

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