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When Wizards of the Coast first announced this concept to the industry, the talk lists serving the professionals and insiders were inundated with e-mails. The repute of the former management of TSR certainly engendered considerable of skepticism. From what I could make of it, Dancey's extensive and quite patient responses to the many questions and attacks that followed pretty well covered the whole matter. The continuing doubt appears a bit cynical from my perspective. There is a small but extremely vocal segment of the hardcore RPG audience, consisting of game designer-publishers and their dedicated fans, that views the game form as being something other than it is.