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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #15 on May 1, 2010, 12:17am »

If you want to dedicate the issue to someone living, I'd have to change my vote to Jim Ward. Not only did he give us Metamorphosis Alpha (and then Gamma World), but he was also a big part of the development of OD&D.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #16 on May 1, 2010, 9:00am »

May 1, 2010, 12:17am, coffee wrote:

And he's a really nice guy and a great DM. I met him last year and played in one of his games.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #17 on May 1, 2010, 10:38am »

May 1, 2010, 12:17am, coffee wrote:

He also wrote the 'Angry Mothers from Heck' editorial in Dragon Magazine.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #18 on May 1, 2010, 11:19am »

May 1, 2010, 12:07am, geoffrey wrote:

Is the following list correct?

#1: Gary Gygax
#2: Dave Arneson
#3: Bob Bledsaw
#4: Dave Hargrave
#5: Timothy J. Kask
#6: Lee Gold
#7: M. A. R. Barker
#8: Erol Otus
#9: Paul Jacquays

Yes, except no 'c' in Jaquays.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #19 on May 1, 2010, 12:54pm »

Fixed!

It's a tough call, but I'll go for #10 to be dedicated to Rob Kuntz. His name is on the cover of Supplement I: GREYHAWK, which was published in early 1975. He was Gary's co-DM in the Greyhawk campaign. That's pretty awesome.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #20 on May 2, 2010, 12:29am »

Yeah, and he's still in the business. We can get to Jim Ward next time.

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #21 on May 8, 2010, 8:48am »

In light of news of Dr.Holmes passing, I certainly have to vote for him!

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #22 on Jun 2, 2010, 9:25pm »

Not surprisingly, there seems to be a bias towards D&D icons. (This IS in the Original D&D Discussion forum!)

Having said that, some of the names listed had huge impacts on roleplaying in general and the whole gaming milieu that flourished during the 70s and 80s.

Ken St. Andre is the godfather of Tunnels & Trolls (the only serious competitor to D&D), and is still very active today. Plus T&T fits in with the fantasy slant...

Jim Ward was always a favorite of mine with D&D, and I especially love what he did with MA and Gamma World. He ALWAYS kept the focus on having fun...

Steve Jackson (US) in many ways had more influence on GAMING than most of the rest. Certainly there wasn't much RPG material, but all of the work with Metagaming, and then Ogre/GEV, later the Car Wars explosion, plus Illuminati, etc. has left it's mark for decades and is still going strong...

But my vote is for Marc Miller. Traveller was and is THE definitive SF RPG. It still is going strong, having undergone many variations. Indeed the Traveller tree not only boasts 5 versions of the 'core' game (Traveller, MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era (plus the offshoot of this - T:TNE 1248), Marc Miller's Traveller (T4) and now T5) but has gaming crossed boundaries in GURPS Traveller, T20 and TravellerHero, plus the latest version by Mongoose (with it's branches - Hammer's Slammers, Judge Dredd, Babylon 5, etc). Traveller is to sci-fi what D&D is to fantasy.

If Fight On! is a magazine dedicated to the tradition of old school fantasy games, then St. Andre is my vote. But if Fight On! is truly a celebration of the golden age of GAMING, in all it's shapes and forms (and not just D&D), Marc Miller (followed by S. Jackson) are my votes as the most influential...

Just my 32 cents!

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #23 on Jun 2, 2010, 10:15pm »

I completely forgot about The Fantasy Trip with Melee and Wizard! Great stuff the completely was about free form gaming. Marc Miller is still my top vote, but Steve Jackson is a close second!

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #24 on Jun 2, 2010, 10:19pm »

And what other game company has been raided by the US Secret Service?

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #25 on Jun 3, 2010, 7:10am »

Yeah, Steve Jackson (US) maybe doesn't always get his due, because we think of him in terms of his company's biggest hits: GURPS, Car Wars, Munchkin, maybe Ogre, etc. But The Fantasy Trip ranks up with AD&D, Tunnels & Trolls, and Runequest as the greatest early fantasy rules system IMO, and in some ways from a pure design standpoint it's the best of the four. And of course the Microgames and Killer are emblematic of the early days as well.

I bought some stuff from Marc Miller on Ebay once and he was very cool. He is definitely someone else we are considering.

JEH's death actually lessens the urgency in my mind in some ways, although he's still on the list of course.

Well, I'm sure we'll have an announcement soon, I just have to get issue 9 out for this here June sales contest...

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Re: Issue 10 Dedication Thread
« Reply #26 on Jun 3, 2010, 7:12am »

Frankly I'd really like to do a Stafford issue with some Glorantha and Runequest stuff in it. He's given us permission to publish RQ/BRP in it (with some mild conditions IIRC, contact me if interested) and I think he's someone else who's really important from the early days even if his creative legacy continues into more modern stuff like Pendragon and Hero Wars. I won't be able to get that together for summer though, so that will be issue 11 at the earliest.

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