08-27-2019, 01:10 PM
Frankly, it's nice to see Arneson being favored in the press. A good change from the usual Shout Down you get for even mentioning Arneson's name somewhere online.
I see Luke Gygax even visited the Secrets of Blackmoor FB page to criticize the article and say he will not be watching Secrets of Blackmoor - Bad press is good press.
Should I go for some drama and respond by calling him a poopie head on Face Book? No. I have zero interest in the drama.
I am impressed by Cecilia and her willingness to take all the heat from the article. When we made the movie, we took a much more distanced tone, Despite efforts to be fair and not disparage Gary, people are still saying the film is biased. I suppose you can't please Gary Gygax cultists no matter how hard you try.
At first I did not want to wander into the fray, but the old grog voices of Ex TSR employees who never truly knew Dave were posting the usual Gary gygax was a Genius/Dave Arneson is a bum crap which forced me to go on the defense over all this.
As usual they throw down false arguments, like saying Gary was the one who made it into an empire. Ok, fine. Is this reason to deny Arneson his legacy as creator of Role Playing? Which is how these arguments always go.
They tend to ignore that genius businessman lost his empire. hmmm... how'd dat happen?
Or, what if Gygax had never met Arneson? uh, no D&D empire for Gygax.
Cecilia got some details wrong in her article, but she did get the story right!
Her logic is infallible: Did Gary Gygax create it all as urban myth would state, mostly created by Gygax's own writings in the dragon, or is the story of RPG's more complex and involves many hands to craft it?
Despite the solid assertion of a much more organic process and no god figure who created the game on a weekend, the blow-back and gamer butt-hurt is strong in them.
I expect that one of these mornings Cecilia will wake from a restful sleep and discover that Dave Arneson has left a 20 sider under her pillow as thanks.
RHAR!
I see Luke Gygax even visited the Secrets of Blackmoor FB page to criticize the article and say he will not be watching Secrets of Blackmoor - Bad press is good press.
Should I go for some drama and respond by calling him a poopie head on Face Book? No. I have zero interest in the drama.
I am impressed by Cecilia and her willingness to take all the heat from the article. When we made the movie, we took a much more distanced tone, Despite efforts to be fair and not disparage Gary, people are still saying the film is biased. I suppose you can't please Gary Gygax cultists no matter how hard you try.
At first I did not want to wander into the fray, but the old grog voices of Ex TSR employees who never truly knew Dave were posting the usual Gary gygax was a Genius/Dave Arneson is a bum crap which forced me to go on the defense over all this.
As usual they throw down false arguments, like saying Gary was the one who made it into an empire. Ok, fine. Is this reason to deny Arneson his legacy as creator of Role Playing? Which is how these arguments always go.
They tend to ignore that genius businessman lost his empire. hmmm... how'd dat happen?
Or, what if Gygax had never met Arneson? uh, no D&D empire for Gygax.
Cecilia got some details wrong in her article, but she did get the story right!
Her logic is infallible: Did Gary Gygax create it all as urban myth would state, mostly created by Gygax's own writings in the dragon, or is the story of RPG's more complex and involves many hands to craft it?
Despite the solid assertion of a much more organic process and no god figure who created the game on a weekend, the blow-back and gamer butt-hurt is strong in them.
I expect that one of these mornings Cecilia will wake from a restful sleep and discover that Dave Arneson has left a 20 sider under her pillow as thanks.
RHAR!