The Evolution of Dungeons and Dragons

The monsters were designed specifically for advanced Dungeons and Dragons they weren't thinking that people could use this for whatever gave their running because all the systems are slightly different. There is a very real old west component to the late 70s and the 80s where it's just like we can just do whatever as there's really nothing that has come before that would set any kind of precedent. The great thing about Gygax back in the day was that he literally for all intents and purposes was a trailblazer because he was just like all right we're going to do this and we're going for it then what shook out of it ends up being the products that we have on our bookshel