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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 1840852" data-attributes="member: 363">Maybe you need to pick up the HackMaster GMG...the Smartass Smackdown Table is worth it alone...The 1e DMG was a fantastic resource in its time. Gygax's &quot;voice&quot; was strong, quirky, and often blunt, very much as we have seen in his posts here and elsewhere. HackMaster, by the way, took the ball and ran with it in this regard, so there's another reason to check out the HM books. Anyway, for years I read and re-read the 1e DMG. The pictures are evocative - for me, the white-on-black pic of the rider watching a ship on a storm-tossed sea evoked a strange mood, of strange worlds and mysterious adventures. The various dungeon dressing charts are very cool. The suggested reading list really helped me find some of heroic fantasy's true classics.The 3.5 DMG is also pretty fantastic. The only fault I can find with it is the lack of one clear, strong voice. It reads too much like a tech manual, and yeah, I can understand that that's what is needed at times, but y'know...this is a game, after all, and I'd like to have some fun reading the books for it also. Even taking that into account, the 3.5 DMG is a fine book and worthy successor to the 1e DMG.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 1840852, member: 363"] Maybe you need to pick up the HackMaster GMG...the Smartass Smackdown Table is worth it alone... The 1e DMG was a fantastic resource in its time. Gygax's "voice" was strong, quirky, and often blunt, very much as we have seen in his posts here and elsewhere. HackMaster, by the way, took the ball and ran with it in this regard, so there's another reason to check out the HM books. Anyway, for years I read and re-read the 1e DMG. The pictures are evocative - for me, the white-on-black pic of the rider watching a ship on a storm-tossed sea evoked a strange mood, of strange worlds and mysterious adventures. The various dungeon dressing charts are very cool. The suggested reading list really helped me find some of heroic fantasy's true classics. The 3.5 DMG is also pretty fantastic. The only fault I can find with it is the lack of one clear, strong voice. It reads too much like a tech manual, and yeah, I can understand that that's what is needed at times, but y'know...this is a [i]game[/i], after all, and I'd like to have some fun reading the books for it also. Even taking that into account, the 3.5 DMG is a fine book and worthy successor to the 1e DMG. [/QUOTE]

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