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From: dorettas@iddic.UUCP (Doretta Schrock)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Gygax fired
Message-ID: <2280@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 17:04:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 17:04:34 1985
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> > 
> >      This last weekend at a Halloween party with some former TSR employees
> > I heard that Gary Gygax has been released (fired) from his position as
> > president and chairman of the board of TSR.  This occured October 20.
> > Due to some recent financial difficulties he lost majority control of
> > the company stock.  How do you think this will affect the gaming industry?
> 
>    IF it's true, it will mean that we'll no longer be subject to Gygax's
> torture of English grammar, his smarmy "Gentle Readers," "Kindly Editor"
> writing style, his use of long, obscure words that don't really mean what
> he thinks they mean, and his endless tinkering with the AD&D game.
>    Oh, did I forget to mention his superior attitude and unbelievable tirades
> against his competition?
> 
>    --Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
>    --aka Steve Howard, ...udenva!showard
>    --"If you knew Suzie like I knew Suzie,
>       You'd want to know Suzie again." --G.D. Giddens

  Sorry for the repitition, folks.  I thought the first (>>) message
deserved to be repeated, if only for its presumtive value.  Much as some
fanatics would like to believe it, the gaming (even frp gaming) industry 
does *NOT* revolve around his Royal Officialness (a.k.a., EGG).  The second 
message I repeated for its pure aesthetic value.  I could not have said it 
better myself, and know few who could.  The only problem is, even with himself 
gone (if, praise be to Buddha, it be true), I wonder if the character of TSR
will change... will they still have their lawyers descend upon folks who
(gasp) take the name of AD&D (tm, registered, copywrite, etc. ad nauseum)
in vain, or worse, make puns out of monster names like "beholder" (this
actually happened to SJG)?  I am afraid, especially with the impending
release of the 2ND EDITION (!?) of the AD&D rules, that nothing has really
changed at all.  Besides which, this could all be a ruse to get us to talk 
about AD&D.

		Long live the homebrew FRPGs, &
		send those flames to /dev/null!

		Mike Sellers <--note the name difference from above

P.S.
  Did anyone (those of you who are still reading) watch 60 Minutes after
the show they did on D&D&D (Death&Dungeons&Dragons)?  I have stopped watching
the network news (MacNeil & Lehrer seem to do a much better job on PBS), and
I was wondering if any of our outrage reached them and/or got on the tube
during their mail-reading spot.  Anyone know?