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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 5485023" data-attributes="member: 114">I hear this so often, but it is utter balderdash. I'm sorry, but it is.I started playing with OD&D rules, never saw chainmail in my life, and it was all great. More than great, it was WONDERFUL! Supplement 1 (Greyhawk) improved things further.I see lots of people with some kind of fixation on chainmail, and wargame beginnings underpinning everything but I was there, and chainmail... just wasn't!*The rules were simple, straightforward, fired the imagination and just worked.'Basic' may have opened up D&D to a more general public, I don't know about that. But 15 year olds had no difficulty in getting to grips with OD&D and running with it, forming part of the foundational userbase that everything else built upon.* maybe some people found it helpful. Maybe some people found it vital - but I can tell you that in the 1970's, it was never mentioned in any of the many amateur magazines, APA's or professional magazines such as White Dwarf. </blockquote>