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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9658625" data-attributes="member: 7030563">He is the author of most of the 1st edition hardcovers.&nbsp; He is essentially the person responsible for those, not just someone listed in the credits.&nbsp; I disagree with you on this WRT to 1E AD&amp;D.When you read the AD&amp;D 1E DMG or PHB you are literally reading Gygax personal writing on the subject.&nbsp; Further the tone of those books is personal and there are many opinions and discussions in there (far more than in modern D&amp;D or even other products from that era).&nbsp; IMO it is inappropriate NOT to treat those words, those rules etc as his personal diction, because that is in fact what they are.Note I am specifically talking about 1E AD&amp;D, and really only the books he personally authored (which include all the core rulebooks), not the other products of the 1E era like BECMI or earlier D&amp;D products that could be called 1E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9658625, member: 7030563"] He is the author of most of the 1st edition hardcovers. He is essentially the person responsible for those, not just someone listed in the credits. I disagree with you on this WRT to 1E AD&D. When you read the AD&D 1E DMG or PHB you are literally reading Gygax personal writing on the subject. Further the tone of those books is personal and there are many opinions and discussions in there (far more than in modern D&D or even other products from that era). IMO it is inappropriate NOT to treat those words, those rules etc as his personal diction, because that is in fact what they are. Note I am specifically talking about 1E AD&D, and really only the books he personally authored (which include all the core rulebooks), not the other products of the 1E era like BECMI or earlier D&D products that could be called 1E. [/QUOTE]

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