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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 4725548" data-attributes="member: 30001">I don't think Gary used this training system that he described.  I recall someone asked him about it (at a Con or somewhere).  This came up during some old 1e vs. 3e edition war but I don't know where the reference is now.  The training system was inspired by one of Gary's PCs who found a gemstone that increased it's value (according to the 1e method) until it became fantastically valuable, and Gary was seeking (as old school DMs often did) a way of divesting the PC from his treasure.  If this story about it's reactive origin is true, I'm not surprised that this rule never had much influence over people playing the game.  Then again, I think among people still playing 1e the rule is more likely to be used now than it was back in the day.  (Folks more flexible about rules were probably more likely to migrate to the new edition.) Tenser the magic-user actually went against type by wading into melee (and Tenser's Transformation is an homage to that) but I saw nothing in what Gary and folks wrote about him to suggest that he suffered any for playing against his type.  In fact, the Tenser's Transformation spell would seem like a trap for denying the casting wizard XP in this context.</blockquote>