The Hobby and the Industry

That Dave Arneson wasn't more well known and widely regarded during his lifetime is something I've felt very acutely over the past week and reading a quote like the following only solidifies that feeling further:

"Dice and maps and figures and complicated rule books are a crutch. The game doesn't need them — but the market does," Arneson said in 1992.

There's a very important truth here and it's one I'm wrestling with rather powerfully at the moment.