>>25581749Yeah. Gary Gygax was one of the two guys who first created D&D. He also wrote many of the early adventures people could buy, and these became the classics. However, adventures in the style of his creations became known as "Gygaxian." Simply put, instead of being a game where the players acted out characters with the DM acting out the rest of the world so everyone had fun, in Gygaxian adventures the DM wins if the players lose.
They were brutal. People not only died, it was to be expected that people would continuously die. Cruel traps that instantly killed you (literally instantly: you trigger it, fail a die roll, and got disintegrated) were far too common.