1E AD&D DMG references to Rogues' Gallery

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I just noticed a thing. My 1E DMG references the Rogues Gallery in two places, even though the latter hadn't been published yet. These are on p. 100 (under "Personae of Non-Player Characters") and p. 236 ("AD&D Game Family" product list). Specifically, I'm looking at:

- DMG: "Revised Edition -- December 1979" (Acaeum calls 6th print)
- Rogues' Gallery: 1980 (Acaeum calls 4th print)

I'm wondering if those works were maybe produced in parallel. Anyone with an earlier printing of the DMG (pre-"Revised Edition"): are those references to the Rogues Gallery there, or not?

[waysoftheearth]

My 1st print DMG has the Rogues Gallery reference on p100 but is only 232 pages long, so there's no p236.

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Nov 29, 2020 2:58:35 GMT -6 waysoftheearth said:

My 1st print DMG has the Rogues Gallery reference on p100 but is only 232 pages long, so there's no p236.

Fantastic, thank you for checking!

[Zenopus]

I also have a 1st print DMG (it has the "D" running off the top edge; www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/dmg.html) and can confirm the reference to the ROGUES GALLERY on page 100.

I compared with a "Revised Edition - December, 1979" and the text in two paragraphs on page 100 appears unchanged from the 1st.

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Nov 29, 2020 12:43:53 GMT -6 Zenopus said:

I also have a 1st print DMG (it has the "D" running off the top edge; www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/setpages/dmg.html) and can confirm the reference to the ROGUES GALLERY on page 100.

I compared with a "Revised Edition - December, 1979" and the text in two paragraphs on page 100 appears unchanged from the 1st.

Thank you as well, fascinating!