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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IvyDragons" data-source="post: 8593946" data-attributes="member: 7035436">Gygax was brilliant.  Those "extra paragraphs" were vastly important world building.  Kids today learn the DnD world through movies like Lord of the Rings where they visually see the world and "get it', and only need to learn mechanics.  Gygax built the same world through his descriptions.  Back in my day when I read 1e I already read the Iliad by Homer, so yeah reading his writing wasn't hard.  I don't think most kids read much nowadays, everything is down to one sentence at a time, anything longer needs to be provided as a meme or anime.</blockquote>