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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 6953633" data-attributes="member: 15700">No, the problem is that you made a claim based apparently on your personal experience and presenting it as if it disproves what I said, which it doesn't.  Speaking of your experience, when exactly did you play D&D?  I'm curious.  And rather than actually address the factual evidence I provided (with how the rules were structured, what was contained in the official adventures, etc, that all support my claim), you can only reply with an an ad hominem?  That's sort of telling.There was a shift, one that we can clearly point to with out the books and adventures were designed.  This is objective material we can actually point to.  The culture of D&D, and how DMs played back in the 70s and 80s is much different then the culture of the game, and how DMs played since 2000.  The rules themselves encourage this difference.  This shouldn't even be up for debate without me having to show proof because it's so obvious.You do realize that there were 120,000 total AD&D DMG's printed*, right?  So 100,000 Dragon magazines in one year is not a small minority.  By your logic, I guess the DMG was only used by an extremely tiny fraction of D&D players then?  Once again, the facts are against you here.  Perhaps instead of continuing to make incorrect assumptions based on your personal preference, you actually support your claim with some actual evidence?*<a href="https://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html" target="_blank">https://www.acaeum.com/library/printrun.html</a></blockquote>

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