From: lib1p@rosie.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp
Subject: Re: No longer Re: Dangerous Journeys
Keywords: Gygax,
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:13:00 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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In article <1992Aug19.180240.680@uwm.edu>, buzzsaw@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael Elias Campbell) writes...
>In article <darknite.714208518@camelot> darknite@camelot.bradley.edu (John S. Novak III) writes:
>>In <18AUG199218095954@rosie.uh.edu> lib1p@rosie.uh.edu (Tammy Stark Blandino) writes:
>> 
>>>>>EGG needs a lobotomy
>>>>	No, not another one!!!!
>>>
>>>But darling Dartanyan, every one knows that men have two heads.
>>>Lobotomize that sucker before it has a chance to infect the
>>>world with reproductions.  Actually, I think it may be too late.
>>>Still, we have to give him credit. He did teach us all how to
>>>be an obnoxious thief who thinks he knows everything.
>>
>>Now, now, let's not be _overly_ harsh...  After all, his primary
>>crime is having lived long enough to be an impediment to the very
>>field in which he pioneered.
>>
>>His secondary crimes are simply those of being a pompous,
>>overweening, self-important ass. 
>>--
> 
> His only secondary crime is deflating the egos of stuffed shirt
> gaming-geeks like yourself. That's a big problem in the gaming hobby
> today: There are a handful of people out there who feel free to
> play "efficency expert" with every game system under the sun, but 
> lack the cajhones to put one out themselves. They feel free to
> derogitorize and insult, but scream in agony when their victum fires back,
> giving him names like 'overweening, self-important ass.'
> 
> I ask you, can you:
> 
> Speak with intelligence on no less than five seperate eras of human
> history?

As a matter of fact......I CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Want a fucking list?
Or would you rather I start right now?!  Better yet, lets not
disturbe the rest of the group.  Just E-Mail me at 
lib1p@jetson.uh.edu and I will start your history education.

> 
> Design games that have been recognized as modern classics in their
> field?

First of all, as initially stated, EGG didn't invent AD&D.

Second of all, I am currently in a group playtesting a game system
to eventually be published.  Because of the uniqueness of this
system there are many bugs to be worked out, which we work on.

Third of all, if your not doing this yourself... get lost.

> 
> Write with skill in areas that are not your forte?

All the time.  In fact, every day I find material for professors
and researchers that they can't find for themselves.  I've

learned alot about other languages including French, Spanish,
Italian, Russian, German, and Japanese. I've had to work with
others things that were not my forte.  I've had to write training
manuals on things not my forte.  Anybody with decent research skills
can do this task.  There is nothing spectacular about writing about
an area that is not your FUCKING FORTE.

> 
> and (IMEO) most importantly:
>   Reply to cheap shots at you by immature little cretins who's
> historical knowledge is limited to Rambo movies and Tolkien rip-offs.

Well I see your not talking about me.  My historical and Tolkien
knowledge probably exceeds your own.  I feel that I can make this
statement because if you had any historical or Tolkien knowledge
you wouldn't be defending EGG the way you are.

As for cheap shots.....

Didn't you see the Elitist Pig incident.  Obviously not.  Since
like most people I have opinions and unlike most people I usually
am willing to speak my mind, I often contend with such cretins.
In fact my own person religious convictions mean that I reply often
to more than just cheap shots.  If he can't handle a few cheap
shots He shouldn't be publishing.

> 
>   Stand behind your opinions when you know you are right but the
>   rest of the industry is slobbering and drooling over that "magic
>   5%"??

I stand by my opinions unless I hear a *rhetorical* arguement that
convinces me otherwise.  Gygax is just one of those people that
thinks he always right no matter what.  And if he isn't so what.

> 
> Let me state right now that I do not agree with everything Gygax says.

Thank .... well (for lack of another term).....GHOD!
> I do however, admire the fact that in an industry that bands with the
> winds of geek opinions and rampant brown-nosing there is an individual
> who says what he means and means what he says and is not afraid to
> put it in firm, solid, print.

Boy have you bought his pile-o-shit.

> 
> Can any of you do the same?
As I said before, I say what I mean, I stand behind it, and if
anyone doesn't like it they are free to try and convince me
otherwise.  If not then we can just agree to disagree.

It is appearant that that is what you and I will do. At least
that is what I will do.  If you wish to continue harping on
Gygax like he is some Grand Master of the RPG Pantheon who
is so perfect as to not be able to weather a few comments,
(hum, beginning to sound more and more like those fanatical
christian types about *GOD*) you may continue to do so. I 
however have better things to do.

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Tammy Stark Blandino
lib1p@jetson.uh.edu
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