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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8348387" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, do note that by the time I hit the game (and it wasn't like this was particularly late in the day--late '75) Greyhawk had pretty much supplanted any use of Chainmail anywhere I hit it; I'm sure this wasn't universal, but I suspect anyone hitting the game after Greyhawk was out likely never even looked hard at anything but its supplementary combat as the default, unless they were brought in by someone from earlier in the cycle who had not changed over.I think I'll maintain that &quot;roll a die to see who which side goes first, resolve all their stuff, then resolve all the other side's stuff&quot; is sufficiently straightforward that it had largely dominated the hobby by the time I hit it that most people simply assumed it was spelled out. Even people who did other things clearly thought they were doing houserules of one stripe or another.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8348387, member: 7026617"] Well, do note that by the time I hit the game (and it wasn't like this was particularly late in the day--late '75) Greyhawk had pretty much supplanted any use of Chainmail anywhere I hit it; I'm sure this wasn't universal, but I suspect anyone hitting the game after Greyhawk was out likely never even looked hard at anything but its supplementary combat as the default, unless they were brought in by someone from earlier in the cycle who had not changed over. I think I'll maintain that "roll a die to see who which side goes first, resolve all their stuff, then resolve all the other side's stuff" is sufficiently straightforward that it had largely dominated the hobby by the time I hit it that most people simply [I]assumed[/I] it was spelled out. Even people who did other things clearly thought they were doing houserules of one stripe or another. [/QUOTE]

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