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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8347895" data-attributes="member: 82106">Well, I imagine a lot of people did NOT write down what they did, though that seems like it would have lead to a lot of problems, especially in old 'GSP' style play with troupe play and all, lol. I mean, you FIRST had to explain to the players how the combat system worked. the LBBs don't actually have A combat system. They discuss using Chainmail's system, but it is pretty unclear exactly how to do that. Then they show an 'alternative combat system', but it is nothing more than a couple AC vs Level/HD charts. So, you have to actually create a combat system around that, and IME most DMs provided a hand out that explained how that worked. In my case I didn't really GM the LBBs themselves, Holmes Basic came out, and that explained the full alternate combat system that was also expanded on in Greyhawk. So, you could kinda get away with 'just playing' combat if you had Greyhawk, or a bit later if you had Holmes Basic.My copy of Holmes Basic is literally FILLED with stapled in hand-written pages that paper over and extend various parts of it, and at one time, now lost, there was one of those '3 tab' binders, with the paper covers and the little brass bendy things that bound sheets of notebook paper into it, that was FILLED with dense pen and ink/pencil pages of charts and paragraphs and whatnot that detailed how different bits taken from various TSR publications and such were glued together, and filling in parts that were missing. Sometimes I photocopied parts of different books and cut-pasted them together, lol. Later I did the same thing with Dragon, I took everything I wanted to use, a class, a rule system, whatever, and I just photocopied it all, 100's and 100's of pages, and cut-pasted it together in 3-ring binders. That was late 70's D&D in a nutshell, lol.</blockquote>

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