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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8013005" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Thank you! I didn't think to look that late .... great cover, May 1985. That was some late-period Gygax in terms of TSR/Dragon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's got all the Gygaxian hallmarks; alternate planes. Custom, bespoke system that doesn't seem to naturally fit in with anything else. References to classic literature. Purple prose. Hating on kobolds.So good! But moving to the main thrust of the discussion, this goes along with the general tenor of the times; I don't think it is very exceptional to say that AD&D (1e) had a gestalt of "more worshipers is better and provides the deity their power" and that this was reflected in the game materials. I do think that this was the first iteration that separated out the Deities and Demigods vision (total worshipers) from this particular vision (worshiper per plane).This is something I wanted to discuss, but I think someone else has a thread on it.</blockquote>