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<blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 4712093" data-attributes="member: 30022">Not quite so much. Gary Gygax strikes a really conversational tone in the DMG, as if he's providing advice directly to the DM-to-be. For example, there might be a paragraph which says: &quot;Be wary of giving the players too much information. Players of superior capability will undoubtedly identify nonesuch items of dweomered and ineffable puissance without the DM resorting to pedantic hand-holding. Feel free to mislead them!!&quot;Gary really loved his vocabulary, and his exclamation points. If you want a really classic example of Gygaxian prose, pick up &quot;WG 6 - Isle of the Ape&quot; (TSR AD&amp;D) or, even better, &quot;Necropolis&quot; (Necromancer 3e D&amp;D). I think he must have worn out his exclamation point key when he typed up Necropolis. &quot;If your party is thus disposed after this most heinous and challenging of encounters, then they are truly well-equipped or prepared! But you are up to the challenge, are you not? The Set Rakotep will not be foiled so easily!! The next room will yet be their doom!!!&quot;The 1e PHB, by comparison, is positively restrained. It's a more perfunctory series of rules and tables for the players, without Gary's crazed passion (and I mean that affectionately) for DM'ing the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lancelot, post: 4712093, member: 30022"] Not quite so much. Gary Gygax strikes a really conversational tone in the DMG, as if he's providing advice directly to the DM-to-be. For example, there might be a paragraph which says: "Be wary of giving the players too much information. Players of superior capability will undoubtedly identify nonesuch items of dweomered and ineffable puissance without the DM resorting to pedantic hand-holding. Feel free to mislead them!!" Gary really loved his vocabulary, and his exclamation points. If you want a really classic example of Gygaxian prose, pick up "WG 6 - Isle of the Ape" (TSR AD&D) or, even better, "Necropolis" (Necromancer 3e D&D). I think he must have worn out his exclamation point key when he typed up Necropolis. "If your party is thus disposed after this most heinous and challenging of encounters, then they are truly well-equipped or prepared! But you are up to the challenge, are you not? The Set Rakotep will not be foiled so easily!! The next room will yet be their doom!!!" The 1e PHB, by comparison, is positively restrained. It's a more perfunctory series of rules and tables for the players, without Gary's crazed passion (and I mean that affectionately) for DM'ing the game. [/QUOTE]

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