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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 9847260" data-attributes="member: 4348">There was business Gygax, and Mr. Gygax. With a Tournament, there has to be some attempt to put down rules, otherwise, it is chaos.  Could you imagine the Champion's cup if no one tried to define what the rules of Futbal were?   Not only would it be unfair, it would have no semblance or framework that one could relate to!So, for tournaments to work, there had to be some basis for them to work on.In personal games, things were far more relaxed.  It was more like what you'd probably imagine an OD&D game to be like than the AD&D tournaments.I never ran into tournament players like they way you describe them.  Most of them were fun and played quite freely in their normal home games as well. There were rules lawyers, but I don't think they were as prevalent as you make them out to be.  Their numbers greatly increased with 3e and the WotC/Hasbro editions to the point that they could cause trouble, but I never really had or saw trouble with them during the TSR days.  They were such a small minority in games outside tournaments as to really be quelled by everyone else (or laughed out of the room so they had to play by themselves).Now after 3e and 3.5 came out...well...that's a different story.</blockquote>