Re: [OFFICIAL] Re: National Characteristics? AND EFSB question f

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Thomas Barclay wrote:

> Coming from the world of *Official* RPG playing.... I really hate 
> that word. Gary Gygax had a little quote (afterward, buried at the 
> back) of the original DMG that basically said something like 
> (paraphrase) all rules are guidelines and the ref is free to do what 
> he thinks will be the best for everyone and the most fun. Of course, 
> then TSR went on to totally forget about that....but that's another 
> Empire story....

Then *HE* went on to forget about it -- Gygax later said: "If you change

the rules, you're not playing AD&D anymore."
 
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