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<blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 4589839" data-attributes="member: 151">I think this is merely a case of rose-colored glasses and nostalgia trumping reality.&nbsp; EGG made such pronouncements 'from on high', as it were, exactly BECAUSE many different gamers had long and voiciferuous rules and DM-ing arguments.&nbsp; The letters and forums columns of Dragon, even edited as they were, would have such continued heated discussions.&nbsp; I remember quite clearly many of the arguments of giving female characters -2 ST/+2 CHA, for example, or over falling damage, paladins, the alignment system, Vancian magic, &quot;Monty Haul&quot; games or a host of other topics...many of which persist today.Everyone I've met in my travels had 1e house-rules, for example, so clearly EGG's RAW was not considered gospel.&nbsp; Gary did, as someone points out, have a certain gravitas as the game's core co-designer and shepherd...but he was hardly considered the sole authority from which all authority flowed.&nbsp; A fact he himself reinforced multiple times, pointing out that each DM's game was his own (which I believe he even points out in the 1e DMG, iirc).People at cons, clubs and other places were just as vocal then as they are now...the only difference is one of scale, IMHO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WizarDru, post: 4589839, member: 151"] I think this is merely a case of rose-colored glasses and nostalgia trumping reality. EGG made such pronouncements 'from on high', as it were, exactly BECAUSE many different gamers had long and voiciferuous rules and DM-ing arguments. The letters and forums columns of Dragon, even edited as they were, would have such continued heated discussions. I remember quite clearly many of the arguments of giving female characters -2 ST/+2 CHA, for example, or over falling damage, paladins, the alignment system, Vancian magic, "Monty Haul" games or a host of other topics...many of which persist today. Everyone I've met in my travels had 1e house-rules, for example, so clearly EGG's RAW was not considered gospel. Gary did, as someone points out, have a certain gravitas as the game's core co-designer and shepherd...but he was hardly considered the sole authority from which all authority flowed. A fact he himself reinforced multiple times, pointing out that each DM's game was his own (which I believe he even points out in the 1e DMG, iirc). People at cons, clubs and other places were just as vocal then as they are now...the only difference is one of scale, IMHO. [/QUOTE]

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