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Originally Posted by Spinachcat
But hey, the Mighty Gygax was laying down the first words for a brand new hobby without the benefit of 30 years of hindsight and publishing experience. He just had some dice, some minis, some handwritten notes (no MS Word and no laptop) and the deep grooves of disco. So thus, we must forgive his purple prose.
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Nope, I'm not buying that excuse Mr Gygax
Outright contradiction of ones' own instructions ("Use your own rules" - "Don't! You'll catch porphyria!") is not excused by lack of precedent. I'm also curious as to how he could write a thesis on why hit points are better than hit locations if no prior games existed to make use of the latter?
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