I don't think anybody except severely autistic people ever played D&D exactly by the rules. Besides it says right there in yer AD&D DM's guide that the rules are really just a guide and not meant to be adhered to severely.

That's what I have to say about that.

By the time I was 15 I had stopped playing RPGs and started doing acid and planning how I was ever going to see a girl's boob that wasn't on a TV screen. This made for a brief but interesting transitional period where role playing games became about how our characters would go about fucking any females (nobody ever took advantage of the gender differences between the other players' characters because that would be "gay") in the campaign.

That game gave way to a completely made up game where we would describe sexual scenarios with girls we found attractive in our school, each written on a piece of paper and drawn out of a hat. I also remember dropping acid and trying to play Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but instead just sitting there smiling and staring at the walls, giggling and being terrified that every roll of the dice was changing the structure of the universe in a profound and unknowable way.