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<blockquote data-quote="XO" data-source="post: 1838481" data-attributes="member: 24452">1E DMG ? The Best !Simply put, that book held more information than today's DMG. It was denser and Gygax's style, purposefully archaic or anachronistic in tone, made it that much more interesting.The 1E DMG could be read without being a bore, which imho is far from the 3E or 3.5 DMG. The simplified English of the newer version, coupled with a larger text font and the oh so politically correct perversion of English arising from the use of the feminine, turn it into rather unpalatable fare. That doesn't mean the newer books are not good references or are lame in contents...A Lightning Bolt cast underwater acting as an electric dispersion equal in volume to a fireball centered on the point where the LB appears is one example of forethought now seemingly disappeared from current offerings.Falling objects hitting a target were lethal in 1E. And close to useless in 3E...The newer DMGs might have been made for easier referencing. Inasmuch as we have (often useleless at present) color framing of pages, why not make such color different per chapter, enablign a quick opening to the proper section ? For whatever reason, the 1E DMG allowed faster referencing when you knew the book in and out... The layout and the illustrations really helped in finding your way quickly.It was and remains a fantastic work, unequalled, let alone surpassed, by today's books.And as I write these lines, I am once again tempted to ditch 3E/3.5 (since some of the contents is so botched that we need to meld and incorporate pieces of both editions) in favor of 1E... The jury is still out on that one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="XO, post: 1838481, member: 24452"] [b]1E DMG ? The Best ![/b] Simply put, that book held more information than today's DMG. It was denser and Gygax's style, purposefully archaic or anachronistic in tone, made it that much more interesting. The 1E DMG could be read without being a bore, which imho is far from the 3E or 3.5 DMG. The simplified English of the newer version, coupled with a larger text font and the oh so politically correct perversion of English arising from the use of the feminine, turn it into rather unpalatable fare. That doesn't mean the newer books are not good references or are lame in contents... A Lightning Bolt cast underwater acting as an electric dispersion equal in volume to a fireball centered on the point where the LB appears is one example of forethought now seemingly disappeared from current offerings. Falling objects hitting a target were lethal in 1E. And close to useless in 3E... The newer DMGs might have been made for easier referencing. Inasmuch as we have (often useleless at present) color framing of pages, why not make such color different per chapter, enablign a quick opening to the proper section ? For whatever reason, the 1E DMG allowed faster referencing when you knew the book in and out... The layout and the illustrations really helped in finding your way quickly. It was and remains a fantastic work, unequalled, let alone surpassed, by today's books. And as I write these lines, I am once again tempted to ditch 3E/3.5 (since some of the contents is so botched that we need to meld and incorporate pieces of both editions) in favor of 1E... The jury is still out on that one. [/QUOTE]

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