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I think people are arguing multiple things in the same thread. Whether such behavior happened. Here the burden is find an example, and...

I think you nailed it on both subjects. If a project is going to please fans (and here I mean people who love the earlier works), it has...

Many tables in the early days mooshed together original with Advanced. Many rules in Advanced were dropped or not noticed. Gary...

yeah, pretty sure some did, I just don’t think it was anywhere near as ubiquitous as some make it sound… I basically went with ‘I would...

no one thinks they were not used at all, the question is how widespread they were. I started playing with 1e and I never took to that...

I think there’s “presentism” there - one way to prove the present game is better is to diss the un-enlightened past, including straw man...

In fact, thanks to The Elusive Shift (which was incredibly well-researched), we know that there wasn't uniformity in playstyle. edit...

You said yourself, groups were siloed. That makes it pretty much impossible that there was any uniformity in play style. In effect there...

This is, I believe, an example of Hitchens's razor in action.

I don't believe I've made any demands for proof -- I have simply stated that there is no proof and that, lacking it, I reject these...

Essentially, I agree that we don't and can't know, which is why I push back against people who claim that their personal experience is...

I have yet to see any evidence, beyond some personal anecdotes, that there is a "big difference" in people's ability to recognise or...

The community is also built off of decades of normal people being the DM and providing fair and fun play. Ultimately what we are...

Yet again I just can't get my head around the games and groups some people have experienced. At 14 years of age, in the 80s, my players...

I don't have any comments about how much you saw it. I dispute that hobby-wide it was common in the past but not now. There are people...