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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 9461776" data-attributes="member: 32740">Not really.  The PH was written with thinking still largely orienting around the OD&D combat rules.  It has TWO (count 'em! TWO!) pages talking about actual combat rules (pp104-105).  Everything not covered there had to be imported from OD&D (or even Chainmail) for another year.  The actual full 1E rules came to light that following year with the publication of the DMG, where those rules ballooned to, I believe, 24 pages and most definitely complicated the VERY simple d6 rolls and the side with higher roll goes first, with multiple, differing initiative procedures to be used based on PAIRS of opponents fighting each other with specific forms of combat (magic, melee, and missile fire).That's not a dragon article or rules supplement, it's the final form of the AD&D combat rules.  Initiative in it still sucked, but it wasn't supposed to be the simple system from OD&D/1E PH anymore (though, again, it CLAIMED to be a simple system...). Hell, I don't really even recall any dragon articles making major changes (but then the group I was in at the time was using a completely different set of combat rules that I've never even heard of anyone else using), and the first official book I recall making real changes to combat procedures after the 1E DMG was actually SECOND edition.</blockquote>