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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3459960" data-attributes="member: 16574">Indeed, because of the leisurely pace at which 1E hardbacks were released (1 per year, more or less -- there were no new AD&amp;D hardbacks in 1982 or 84 and there were 2 apiece in 85, 86, and 87), it's possible to find 1E fans who draw their personal &quot;line in the sand&quot; after every single release (at least after the core 3 -- there may well be fans out there who accept, say, the MM and PH but reject the DMG but I don't know of any specifically). The broadest division seems to be in three groups -- the &quot;fundamentalists&quot; who accept only the 3 core books (possibly including Deities &amp; Demigods (1980) and/or Fiend Folio (1981), but usually not) andwant nothing to do with any of the later stuff, even what Gygax wrote, the &quot;Gygaxists&quot; who accept the Monster Manual II (1983) and/or Unearthed Arcana (1985) (the 1983 World of Greyhawk boxed set typically falls into this category as well) but reject everything after Gygax's ouster/departure (I personally tend to fall into this camp when I'm playing AD&amp;D), and the &quot;completists&quot; who include Oriental Adventures (1985), the Survival Guides (1986), Manual of the Planes (1987) and possibly even the Dragonlance (1987) and/or Greyhawk Adventures (1988) books in their &quot;personal AD&amp;D canon.&quot; All three of these groups will fight among each other; not perhaps quite as much as they'll fight with 2E or 3E (or GURPS or WoD) fans, but do a search at dragonsfoot on, say, &quot;Unearthed Arcana&quot; and &quot;crap&quot; and you'll probably come up with more than a couple matches...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 3459960, member: 16574"] Indeed, because of the leisurely pace at which 1E hardbacks were released (1 per year, more or less -- there were no new AD&D hardbacks in 1982 or 84 and there were 2 apiece in 85, 86, and 87), it's possible to find 1E fans who draw their personal "line in the sand" after every single release (at least after the core 3 -- there may well be fans out there who accept, say, the MM and PH but reject the DMG but I don't know of any specifically). The broadest division seems to be in three groups -- the "fundamentalists" who accept only the 3 core books (possibly including [i]Deities & Demigods[/i] (1980) and/or [i]Fiend Folio[/i] (1981), but usually not) andwant nothing to do with any of the later stuff, even what Gygax wrote, the "Gygaxists" who accept the [i]Monster Manual II[/i] (1983) and/or [i]Unearthed Arcana[/i] (1985) (the 1983 [i]World of Greyhawk[/i] boxed set typically falls into this category as well) but reject everything after Gygax's ouster/departure (I personally tend to fall into this camp when I'm playing AD&D), and the "completists" who include [i]Oriental Adventures[/i] (1985), the [i]Survival Guides[/i] (1986), [i]Manual of the Planes[/i] (1987) and possibly even the [i]Dragonlance[/i] (1987) and/or [i]Greyhawk Adventures[/i] (1988) books in their "personal AD&D canon." All three of these groups will fight among each other; not perhaps quite as much as they'll fight with 2E or 3E (or GURPS or WoD) fans, but do a search at dragonsfoot on, say, "Unearthed Arcana" and "crap" and you'll probably come up with more than a couple matches...;) [/QUOTE]

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