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>One final note: when Gary Gygax died, I tried to host a session of 1e
>AD&D with my then-current group, in his honor. In truth, we barely
>got past character generation, and I was struck again and again by how
>many things I'd come to take for granted were simply missing -

Heh. We played First Edition with a ton of house rules, mostly gleaned out of issues Dragon Magazine. (So, basically, Second Edition. :) Years later, when I next had occasion to play D&D, I was puzzled by the fact that there were only six stats instead of the eight I was instinctively expecting. Of course, by then Third Edition was out, so...

>more by that than all the superfluous grognardy detail about pole
>arms, etc.

This just made me think of that one-panel comic from Dragon, with the clerics. "I used to carry a lucern hammer. Imagine my embarrassment when I found out it was a pole arm!"

--G.
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