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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9683112" data-attributes="member: 7026594">I'm still on the first chapter of Shared Fantasy (just reading casually on lunch breaks so far), but there's a great bit talking about the APA zines, and Gygax's feuds with them, with a Gary quote I don't remember reading before, expanding on and clarifying the venom he expressed in a famous The Dragon editorial.  This comes up in the larger context of establishing the criteria for gamers being a subculture/subsociety, one of which requires internal communication vehicles for propagation of ideas and cultural norms.Aside from the amusement value of seeing a self-serious gamer up in arms over a classic Tom Wham humorous game, I appreciate how this clarifies/confirms and Gary acknowledges that his opinion on the APAs changed over time.  Though I'm not 100% buying his rationalization.</blockquote>