A close reading of the  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons  rulebooks often reveals little details that are easy to overlook. In most cases, t...

 Page 12 of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide  includes a short section of "Starting Level of Experience for Pl...

At the bottom of page 57 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , there's a section entitled "Travel in the Known Planes of Existenc...

I've written a previous post in this series about page 90 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , which discusses economics, broadly de...

Toward the middle of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , there's a section entitled "Intervention by Deities" that has long f...

I will in future return to highlighting choice passages in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , but I recently came across a section of the ...

In a change of pace, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at a section from AD&D 's Deities & Deimgods. On page 11 ...

As I mentioned in a previous post , I mentioned a section at the start of the AD&D Players Handbook  entitled simply "The Game....

Beginning on page 7 of the AD&D Players Handbook , there's a lengthy section entitled simply "The Game," in which Gary Gyg...

Page 101 of the AD&D Players Handbook contains a long section entitled "The Adventure," in which Gary Gygax the "three ma...

On page 90 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide , there's a brief section that sheds much light on how Gary Gygax viewed the game's...

"Spell Casting During Melee" appears on page 65 of the Dungeon Masters Guide and is a surprisingly eye-opening read, both in terms...

 (Part I of this section can be found here ) In the middle of a long section on page 110 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide  entitled ...

The afterword of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide , found on page 230 is another one of those passages that bears e...

Page 61 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide features a lengthy section entitled "Encounters, Combat, and Initiative." The sectio...

Page 28 of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide contains numerous short sections about the minutiae of combat. I'm not going to discuss th...