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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 9798138" data-attributes="member: 86051">You know, I've always wondered whether Gygax actually was the sole author of the DMG. As far as I can see, he was rather good at putting his name on things and he may have been a good editor--or at least someone who ruled what he published with an iron hand--but I do believe that, for example, Lenard Lakofka also played a fairly big part in the end result that was the DMG. I forget where, but there's some evidence that this is the case. Could be some articles in Dragonsfoot magazine (is it called that?), and then there's his dippy zine Dangerous Liaisons and the firelord (or whatever that class was called) laying the groundwork for many fire-based spells that became a staple in AD&D.Also, I've always wondered why the first OD&D booklets are so horrendous and incomprehensible in many ways, and the DMG/PHB present a much more coherent image. Was that because he made the OD&D booklets in his cellar and that he was only allowed to get some serious work done when TSR had actually become a thing?Or did he have an editorial staff he could delegate things to at that time? If anything, do the bizarre inconsistencies between the xp table on p. 85 of the DMG and Appendix E suggest that they were made by two different people altogether?</blockquote>