Voros
Doomed Investigator
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- Santayana
Here's a great blog post exploring the tribal warfare between trad wargamers (a.k.a self declared grognards), fantasy wargamers and D&D players (a.k.a those damn kids!) displayed in the 1970s Battle Magazine.
The mighty Tony Bath and Steve Jackson (UK edition) make appearances defending fantasy and the kids these days.
Apparently Jackson was responding to this:
Someone also found this one.
For those who won't deign to click on Twitter links to read the letters in full.
But remember y'all today's tribalism is serious business. Amazing that somehow those DoingItWrong and BadWrongFun back then didn't destroy the hobby like they are so sure to do these days.
- Santayana
Here's a great blog post exploring the tribal warfare between trad wargamers (a.k.a self declared grognards), fantasy wargamers and D&D players (a.k.a those damn kids!) displayed in the 1970s Battle Magazine.
The mighty Tony Bath and Steve Jackson (UK edition) make appearances defending fantasy and the kids these days.
Apparently Jackson was responding to this:
Someone also found this one.
For those who won't deign to click on Twitter links to read the letters in full.
But remember y'all today's tribalism is serious business. Amazing that somehow those DoingItWrong and BadWrongFun back then didn't destroy the hobby like they are so sure to do these days.