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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9045051" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Well, there are two things here.First, I always find it important to really interrogate assumptions. Memories are incredibly fallible. I have seen a number of people make claims about things that happened that, quite literally, could not have happened because they played a certain way for a long time and they read that back into earlier times. Or they get dates confused. To call out my own fallibility, for the longest time I remembered that I played in a module ... but it was only recently that I bothered checking the dates and realized that it was actually impossible for that to have been the module I played in because the module was published years later. To this day, because of my fallible memory, I still can't tell what I played, but I do know that it wasn't the module I thought it was!Second, it is still entirely possible that you used that method. As has been outlined, Moldvay mentioned the method in Basic (1981). While it was certainly not widespread, and it wasn't part of the rules of AD&amp;D or OD&amp;D, it did exist as an ad hoc table rule (alongside many other possible table rules) prior to that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9045051, member: 7023840"] Well, there are two things here. First, I always find it important to really interrogate assumptions. Memories are incredibly fallible. I have seen a number of people make claims about things that happened that, quite literally, could not have happened because they played a certain way for a long time and they read that back into earlier times. Or they get dates confused. To call out my own fallibility, for the longest time I remembered that I played in a module ... but it was only recently that I bothered checking the dates and realized that it was actually impossible for that to have been the module I played in because the module was published years later. To this day, because of my fallible memory, I still can't tell what I played, but I do know that it wasn't the module I thought it was! Second, it is still entirely possible that you used that method. As has been outlined, Moldvay mentioned the method in Basic (1981). While it was certainly not widespread, and it wasn't part of the rules of AD&D or OD&D, it did exist as an ad hoc table rule (alongside many other possible table rules) prior to that. [/QUOTE]

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