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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 6812293" data-attributes="member: 6788973">They didn't really choose 3d6 as default for AD&amp;D. It already was. In the quoted passage Gygax acknowledges that 3d6 was the previously established default already. He couldn't change that. It was the default, like it or not. Apparently, not. Hence the suggested alternatives. Remember, for original AD&amp;D the &quot;A&quot; was relevant. Stat rolling is not the only case where Gygax writes with the baseline assumption that the reader has played a lot of D&amp;D and is now ready for the &quot;advanced&quot; version. Over time this assumption may have proved less and less true, but it was still there. So...yeah. 3d6 was the default in OD&amp;D and consequently the assumed default in AD&amp;D. Gygax offered some other suggestions because he apparently felt that this default method would be a less appropriate fit for AD&amp;D than it was for basic D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MostlyDm, post: 6812293, member: 6788973"] They didn't really choose 3d6 as default for AD&D. It already was. In the quoted passage Gygax acknowledges that 3d6 was the previously established default already. He couldn't change that. It [i]was[/i] the default, like it or not. Apparently, not. Hence the suggested alternatives. Remember, for original AD&D the "A" was relevant. Stat rolling is not the only case where Gygax writes with the baseline assumption that the reader has played a lot of D&D and is now ready for the "advanced" version. Over time this assumption may have proved less and less true, but it was still there. So...yeah. 3d6 was the default in OD&D and consequently the assumed default in AD&D. Gygax offered some other suggestions because he apparently felt that this default method would be a less appropriate fit for AD&D than it was for basic D&D. [/QUOTE]

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