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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9199484" data-attributes="member: 82106">Sure, and that may say something about Gygax's changing views and techniques of play. I just don't think it means that everyone who started playing in 1979 went right out and played like the text in the AD&amp;D DMG necessarily. Most of them probably started out tentatively playing in something closer to the 1974 style, though it would depend on the rest of the group and the individual of course. A lot of people you'd introduce to play today are likely to take the 1974 approach too, at first. Oh, I think people are less careful and precise in their speech though. I mean, I might say &quot;I do it&quot; or &quot;Takeo does it&quot; or even elaborate in first person fashion on my state of mind and such. It all depends. I personally was never all that wrapped up in stylistic considerations of play. I'm not even sure that these modes of speech actually tell us much about what someone is doing in play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9199484, member: 82106"] Sure, and that may say something about Gygax's changing views and techniques of play. I just don't think it means that everyone who started playing in 1979 went right out and played like the text in the AD&D DMG necessarily. Most of them probably started out tentatively playing in something closer to the 1974 style, though it would depend on the rest of the group and the individual of course. A lot of people you'd introduce to play today are likely to take the 1974 approach too, at first. Oh, I think people are less careful and precise in their speech though. I mean, I might say "I do it" or "Takeo does it" or even elaborate in first person fashion on my state of mind and such. It all depends. I personally was never all that wrapped up in stylistic considerations of play. I'm not even sure that these modes of speech actually tell us much about what someone is doing in play. [/QUOTE]

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