> He wasn’t initially interested in selling the slick, glossy product line we see in bookstores today; he wanted to sell a set of rules, essentially guidelines

> He wasn’t initially interested in selling the slick, glossy product line we see in bookstores today; he wanted to sell a set of rules, essentially guidelines for play that could easily be adopted and adapted to whatever scenario other hobbyists cared to cook up. Goodness, "slick" and "glossy"! I curse capitalism and its running dog, nice paper. Much purer to only sell xeroxed copies at GenCon. I don't know if the author has read the rules for Chainmail, but they were clearly not designed to be universal. Gygax sold a very specific system. D&D and AD&D were the same. Much later, the OGL provided a way to sell derivative products based on that system, but in any case the key word is sell. 5th edition D&D is no less adaptable than 1st edition — if that's your metric — and probably more so.