03-10-2010, 10:49 AM
chirine ba kal Wrote:Yes, it is, and it does. Phil had had a lot of exposure to Dave and the Blackmoor players, and he'd also had exposure to the 'Gygaxian style' of playing D&D; one of the people at the club was an immigrant from Lake Geneva, and was very much a player and GM in Gary's more formalistic / rules-oriented approach to RPGs. It was after observing one of the D&D sessions run in this style that EPT was written; Phil had raised an objection to something he observed in the game, and was told that if he didn't like it he should go write his own rules. So, he did...
yours, Chirine
And that must be Mike Mornard.
I had read his version of the story of how he influenced M.A.R Barker to create EPT but he never mentioned anything about whether Barker knew anyone else who played D&D at the time. Thanks again Jeff.