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<blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9291051" data-attributes="member: 6804070">I don't think it says that much about do it yourself attitude, but more of a simple, &quot;we don't have the time or the space or the need to detail these, here are some rough ideas so we don't leave you high and dry.&quot;Or, another way to look at it, I don't think OD&amp;D was so much about an attitude or DIY, but rather TSR was simple limited in what it could produce. It did not have the resources (money, time, page count, etc) to detail everything. Maybe they didn't see the need (I doubt that), but they certainly were a small business in a totally new endeavor that had to create everything. Even the stuff they took from other sources had to be re-worked to be D&amp;D. IMO, OD&amp;D (and even most editions) have such a large DIY attitude not because TSR/WotC doesn't want to do everything and sell it to us, but because they can't. (Not reasonably.)So &quot;Sea Monster&quot; was there not because they didn't want to detail out a hundred different monsters to use in a sea going adventure, but because they had not created such creatures for their own campaigns and didn't have time to detail them for the product.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LordEntrails, post: 9291051, member: 6804070"] I don't think it says that much about do it yourself attitude, but more of a simple, "we don't have the time or the space or the need to detail these, here are some rough ideas so we don't leave you high and dry." Or, another way to look at it, I don't think OD&D was so much about an attitude or DIY, but rather TSR was simple limited in what it could produce. It did not have the resources (money, time, page count, etc) to detail everything. Maybe they didn't see the need (I doubt that), but they certainly were a small business in a totally new endeavor that had to create everything. Even the stuff they took from other sources had to be re-worked to be D&D. IMO, OD&D (and even most editions) have such a large DIY attitude not because TSR/WotC doesn't want to do everything and sell it to us, but because they can't. (Not reasonably.) So "Sea Monster" was there not because they didn't want to detail out a hundred different monsters to use in a sea going adventure, but because they had not created such creatures for their own campaigns and didn't have time to detail them for the product. [/QUOTE]

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