Even Tim Kask agreed

He decided to buy the original rule book and a set of dice.  However, he said he couldn’t just take the game straight to an SGS meeting — he could hardly figure out what the rules meant.

 Kask was a veteran war games player and a pretty smart guy, but he said he couldn’t make heads or tails of “these horribly written rules.”

“These things suck,” he remembered thinking. He all but told Gygax as much, too.

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