Tony Vargas
Legend
That is what Reynard has been saying. And it was.I would say again that this was a hobbyist game from the beginning, so it makes sense that people have always tinkered with it. Anything from adjusting rules, to creating whole new games (most of the early RPGs were simply massive variants of OD&D that were created from DM's notes that evolved over time).
It hasn't stayed that way, times have changed, the IP has changed hands, and the attitudes of 'new' fans (of the last 20 years or so) are not identical to those of older fans. The veneration of 'RaW' - heck, so much as an on-line consensus of what RaW even was - starting with 3e was seismic shift. It's far from the only thing that's different.
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