Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis@dice.camp
Thread 2/? I think that Gygax didn't write about two kinds of things: things he was uninterested in and things he was really good at. We know that Gygax in later years had conflicts with others over whether or not to include social mechanics and from many sidebars among people at his table it seems that he was skilled at Social interactions so felt no need for social based mechanics. At best he had randomizers for interactions to let the dice effectively surprise him. #Dnd
Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis@Alexander_Anotherskip_Davis@dice.camp
Thread 3/? Obviously he was interested in Wargaming and he was reasonably skilled at them. Why would he reinvent the wheel when he could simply grab a game from his library of games tell others that X game repersented y conflict and resolve it if he needed a way to solve a war beyond narrative dictation. Sadly i don't know if he did this but this easily explains why nothing before the 2E Battlesystem really covers solving a war as a problem. Wars were 'crawled' through in Chainmail, not DND.