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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9503039" data-attributes="member: 7026594">It's in the original, which is the printing I first REALLY played a lot of, and still have my copies of.  The DMG is so worn from use and travel that the spine completely came off.In contrast to your experience, either because I read differently than you or had different DMs, ability checks were subsumed for me as a core, commonplace concept, and it's weird to me for other people to be unfamiliar.  And yeah, it was a bit surprising to realize that they weren't detailed in the original 1974 rules (only vaguely hinted at, as Snarf wrote), didn't make it into the AD&D 1E rule books except in a couple of odd special edge cases (and in the NWP rules once those got introduced in the mid 80s), and didn't get described as a generalized mechanic until Moldvay's appendix.</blockquote>