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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6623591" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think that is largely true.&nbsp; Certainly, I know from my own experience trying to make sense of the DMG, that I never really grasped where the author was coming from and why he was saying many of the things he was saying until I learned some things about the game as Gygax knew and ran it and had some context for the statements.&nbsp;&nbsp; And I never understood how wise it was until I was trying to run an ever changing cast of dozens of players weekly because I had no common experience.There are huge sections of the 1e AD&amp;D DMG that just really do not apply if the group is 3-4 players who are close friends meeting in their parents basement or over the dinner table.&nbsp; There is so much in the text that is given out of context and a few things which I think are themselves speculative on the part of Gygax, as in, &quot;If this is becoming a problem at your table, then you should probably handle it like this.&quot;So, the question is, &quot;Why would the damage mark on the graph what direction the alignment of a player is trending?&quot;, might well be answered with, &quot;That player might not show up again for 3 weeks, and if you have 30 different players in the campaign, you'll need to make a record of these things in some sort of concrete way.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6623591, member: 4937"] I think that is largely true. Certainly, I know from my own experience trying to make sense of the DMG, that I never really grasped where the author was coming from and why he was saying many of the things he was saying until I learned some things about the game as Gygax knew and ran it and had some context for the statements. And I never understood how wise it was until I was trying to run an ever changing cast of dozens of players weekly because I had no common experience. There are huge sections of the 1e AD&D DMG that just really do not apply if the group is 3-4 players who are close friends meeting in their parents basement or over the dinner table. There is so much in the text that is given out of context and a few things which I think are themselves speculative on the part of Gygax, as in, "If this is becoming a problem at your table, then you should probably handle it like this." So, the question is, "Why would the damage mark on the graph what direction the alignment of a player is trending?", might well be answered with, "That player might not show up again for 3 weeks, and if you have 30 different players in the campaign, you'll need to make a record of these things in some sort of concrete way." [/QUOTE]

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