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Originally Posted by Oni  Wow, who knew that nearly 50% of all magic rings were cursed. |
It was only in OD&D. In AD&D the likelihood of cursed rings dropped to 20% and in the D&D Expert Set it dropped to 16%. OD&D was more of a high risk-high reward game than later versions -- note that they also decreased the likelihood of finding a
ring of wishes from 5% in OD&D to 4% (B/X) and 3% (AD&D), and lowered the maximum number of wishes per ring from 24(!) in OD&D to 8 in AD&D and 4 in B/X.
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