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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8135293" data-attributes="member: 2629">Gygax > Greenwood, but neither are in my top 2.Greenwood created lore, not the game. That lore has been updated so many times that it hardly resembles the contributions that he initially made.Gygax is third in my list of people that influenced the game into what it is today:  Dave Arneson, Andy Collins, and then Gygax.  All three were instrumental, but Arneson and Collins were guiding forces that did a huge amount to shape the game (Arneson being the first to really make a fantasy role playing session happen and Collins for taming the randomness into a game that made mathematical sense - the first to hone the game into shape) while Gygax is thought to have capitalized upon the work of others and pushed it to commercial 'success'.</blockquote>