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Post Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:11 pm 
 

It doesn't quite line up with descriptions at https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/dmg.html. It has 236 numbered pages and the yellow orange flyleaves. Has anyone here seen this edition before?
  

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:35 pm 
 

Did you also see the flowchart at https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpag ... wchart.gif ?

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2023 11:59 pm 
 

By the flow chart is 6th Alpha, but it has 236 numbered pages instead of 238, which doesn't match the description on the webpage I linked to. Puzzled
  

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Post Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:35 am 
 

grodog wrote:Did you also see the flowchart at https://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpag ... wchart.gif

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You know Allan, I had not seen that (even though I have a bunch of DM Guides). It looks terrific!


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 4:52 pm 
 

That is just hilarious, a DMG flowchart.


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Post Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:12 pm 
 

We now need to playtest it as a dungeon, reading the lines as hallways & the boxes as rooms. The second-alpha room would contain an NPC with monsters emerging from his side, either as Alien-type chestbursters or appendages. The third-alpha room would contain a prisoner bound & scarred in wire. If the players have fun, it's likely to function well as an organizer of information.
  

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:29 pm 
 

Bay City Paladin wrote in Dungeon Masters Guide Dec 1979 Revised:By the flow chart is 6th Alpha, but it has 236 numbered pages instead of 238, which doesn't match the description on the webpage I linked to. Puzzled


Some of the DMG printings had perforated pages for the reference sheets at the back. Perhaps it was removed on your copy?

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Post Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 11:03 pm 
 

The Acaeum's meticulous Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Delta print sequences still do not account for all of the differences it attempts to highlight. I have two or three different DMG's that can not be pigeonholed based upon the current flowchart.


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