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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2550043" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yes, I think it most certainly does.  In Gary's column in Dragon, "On the Soapbox" or whatever it's called, he very clearly talks about his gaming style, and the types of games he used to run (still does?) and what he sees the game of D&D as being all about.  It's fundamentally at odds, IMO, with the type of game you describe, despite the fact that you use a Gygax-written system to play it.And I agree that many people do play that way; I certainly always have, yet in my case, that cognitive dissonance between my preferred playstyle and that clearly espoused by Gary Gygax drove me away from D&D for many years.  You've obviously made the system work for you, and I say to that: "Good for you!"  But that doesn't mean that your game is Gygaxian, at least not how I understand the word.</blockquote>