TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

[David Howery]

from what I read about OD&D, the main problem with it was that it was hard to learn unless you're taught by someone who already learned the game. IIRC, the Holmes boxed set was designed to fix that.

 

[Tesral]

from what I read about OD&D, the main problem with it was that it was hard to learn unless you're taught by someone who already learned the game. IIRC, the Holmes boxed set was designed to fix that.

This is true. Which is one reason you had a different version for every gaming group. You had to invent your own game from the cluttered mess of the little books. The three books were unplayable without the Greyhawke supplement. Layout was terrible, organization did not exist. They might have invented a game, but they had zero experience documenting it. 0e shows it.