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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8263861" data-attributes="member: 7023840">To be clear, I don't think anyone is being disingenuous, or lying, or even doing the typical internet, "If someone says something, Ima gonna be against it, 'cuz that's how it works ... no retreat, no surrender, no apologies!" What I do think happens is, for a lot of people, there is a OD&D/1e/2e "Mandela effect," and that this is strongest with the late 1e/2e period. And it totally makes sense. Think about it- the majority of people commenting about "AD&D" are doing so having never played 1e (just 2e) or having played just a little 1e before playing 2e - this makes sense just by looking at the grim math of an actuarial table. <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Even those olds of us who haven't died yet who started with OD&D and early 1e ... well, most of us here ... 1e ended in 1988. Arguably, the "classic" rules ended in 1985, when you have the UA split. Which means that people discussing 1e rules today are trying to remember what the rules were like, usually  having not played it for more 30 years, and often having spent more time playing a very close variant (2e) and/or playing computer games based on 2e ... and that's before remembering that 1e had some famously opaque rules. I tend to have less of that particular problem only because I never played 2e rules- so they stick out a little more to me; even so, my memory is such that I still have to go back and verify things against the text because sometimes my memory tells me I did things that just didn't happen. That's why I try to always source my points. Our minds are funny like that.</blockquote>

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