During the tournament I would allow the players to make cheat attempts. BUT the referees can make spot checks to penalize the players for cheating!

I’ll hard disagree on naming characters. A. Gygax did that B. This lack of naming lets the story resound throughout the ages because it doesn’t age the stories by having older fads of names taking people out of thinking it ‘just happened’.

Ah, JFK as a Senator, “For the farmer, is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything he buys at retail - sell everything he sells at wholesale - and pay the freight both ways.”

Reminds me of one of the US presidents talking about farmers paying for freight both ways.

Where are the Journeymen? Where do they sit in this as they are past apprenticeships but not yet masters?

A square is a tool to allow one to make 90 degree angles to a surface.

So according to Colorado Carpenters the nail puller is called a Cats Claw.

I will point out Melf is M(ale) + Elf so elven gender distinctions were existing under Gary and I would like to see citations for Od&d having gender altering elves. That might not be impossible but seems unlikely given Gygaxes lifestyle.

So I knew A guy in the SCA who wore 22 bunny hides on each foot and it was surprisingly effective armor…

Not sure your exigencies about understanding of the plagues is accurate….

Could the ‘Bendy Glass’ be Glassteel?

Cows can be taught to follow whatever. My great uncle called cows by honking his car horn to call them for dinner. They aren’t stupid.

Three of these things I can see as connected to Gygax’s First Edition works. From the first Monster Manual: giant ants who had gold nuggets, Ettins and Tiamat.

Stupid Autocorrect: not ERIN BUT ETTIN

The giant ants in the 1EAD&D MM also have many gold nuggets.

Two headed guy: Erin

Ok looking over the MM1 uhh King of Dragons is just a gender bent Tiamat.

On the blue green discussion there is a theory based on texts readings that blue is a new concept because blue doesn’t exist much in nature green is all over the place.

The homosexual notes really might explain the theme of the Girdle of Masculinity/Feminity.

Scavengers, you know, Adventurers aka Player Characters. It makes sense to have the Murder Hobo’s outside of town just for fire codes.