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Yes, the exponentiality (is that a word?) of the XP tables meant that double-classed characters lagged about 1 level behind and triple-classed characters lagged about 2 levels behind. Although a gnome cleric/thief would not lag very far behind a magic-user.

I'm sure the rules have been revised multiple times, but here's how they stood in 1933: http://tt.tf/gamehist/games/mn-todd/mn-1933-rules.html Very similar to today's Monopoly game.

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Here's a method I think I might try. Roll the hit die together with 1d4. Take whichever roll is higher. With this method, a magic-user has a 1/16 chance of getting a 1, a thief a 1/24 chance, a cleric a 1/32 chance, a fighter a 1/40 chance, and a barbarian a 1/48 chance. So it would tend to...

Not even to a fun guy like you? :lol:

I remember those Kinko's "course packets" and -- at least at the Kinko's located near my alma mater -- they weren't being sold "off the rack to anybody who wanted to buy them." You went to the desk and asked for a certain course packet. (Of course, I could be misremembering -- it was 15 years...

I seem to have fallen into a den of hobbits!

I thought I had read of a group who snatched the skull in a bag of holding and then threw it into the idol's mouth.

As a point of fact, I think that common law or perpetual copyright is a good thing. Why shouldn't one have the right to pass one's intellectual property down to one's heirs, and so on, to profit from it as they see fit?

The heirs of the creator might disagree. :)

Ideas are not copyrightable. The expression of ideas is. I suppose an idea might be patented, but patents are pretty limited in duration compared to copyrights.

Darnit, Jolly, why do you have to be such a gentleman? You're nullifying the ranting! I think an HM "Rules Cyclopedia" would look like the Baseball Encyclopedia: 2,000+ pages. ;)

My guess is that Mr. Fisher is referring to C&C. :uhoh:

In old school GH, Lolth was both a demi-goddess and a demon queen and had powers appropriate to both classes.

I don't know what ground covered by GDQ1-7 Queen of the Spiders is covered by this latest module, but the finale of the GDQ series, Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits, was written by the late Dave Sutherland and not Gary Gygax.