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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 5089604" data-attributes="member: 18017">I love the passages from the early days where Gygax, Arneson, Bledsaw, Hargreaves, et al. seem to be speaking from experience: we've been playing for a bunch of years and here's what we've observed taking place. By 1979 when he wrote that, Gygax had been running the Greyhawk campaign (and playing in it and Kalibruhn) with Rob Kuntz for seven years or so. That's certainly enough to observe some universal truths (especially given how frequently he seems to have played), but it's probably just a fraction of your total D&D history by now, Merric. So yeah, I don't doubt that your campaigns have seen some of the same evolution & independently reached the same solutions several times over!(I won't claim that this evolution is inevitable - even among people who've been playing nonstop you can see a range from those who've run one campaign that whole time and those who are always starting something new - but I do think that some similarities in the starting assumptions D&D creates and the mutuality of the things we want out of it mean some pathways are going to become well-worn channels.)</blockquote>