Gygax is to Gaming what Kirby was to comic Alas poor Elric I was a thousand times more evil then you
What causes me concern is the continual attempt to
> rationalise mythology as the entirety of cultural data rather than a
> subset of such data; this suggests to me that further attempts at
> cultural exposition will also occur in mythic format and will be, to
> me, unsastisfying. At the moment HW is looking destined for a shelf
> labelled "nice idea, poor execution" and I'll rip off the mechanics
> for something else. On top of all of that is the newbies or old
> hands issue; my comments on ST have caused much excitement, but
> understand that from the perspective of a newbie, Issaries and Humakt
> already appear in HW:RiG, and to find yourself looking at a reprint
> so quickly feels a bit like a smack in the face; I would much rather
> tha range of data covered had been extended instead of deepened.
>
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