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Play an OLDER edition.

Didn't read the whole thread, but the answer is E6.

For what it's worth... And one of the reasons for that - to MY understanding, and I could be wrong - was that at name/title level (if not before) players would still retire/semi-retire their characters and start playing another one, or at the very least that was largely the expectation of...

Casting arcane magic in armor is a HUGE benefit and ultimately rather unbalanced. It's especially hard to take in light of the fact that being a multi-class thief or rogue has VERY solid armor restrictions for any of the thief-rogue class activities whereas weirdly, casting arcane spells...

IIRC the Dragon article was also later anointed by TSR as being the official solution. What Gary himself almost certainly did was what he thought was reasonable at any given moment - if it even came up as a problem. This was an issue that came up mostly because of other people's monster...

I would argue Spelljammer is in the indicated genre.

Been playing D&D since 1976 or so and effectively 1E since the MM publication in 1977. Descending AC is not really a difficulty for any child old enough/smart enough to be able to grasp negative integer math. Is it more cumbersome than ascending AC? Sure. Is it worth the effort to reverse...

Isn't that what's meant by having EGG on your face? :confused:

Yeah, pretty much this. There isn't even a variation on invisibility (that I know of) that can make objects invisible, so it's pretty much DM fiat that it's invisible, not any spell or item that makes it invisible. Aaaaaand, I take issue with published modules or DM-created adventures where...

My insufficient adoration of 5E existed well before my severe distaste for WotC was built by them. So far for the entirety of 5E I've actually made just three purchases. WotC's actions have really only caused me to decide to continue that dearth of consumer support, not initiate it.

I don't recall ever seeing formal rules or published guidelines which suggested anything like milestone leveling. Not until 2E do I recall seeing any kind of significant proposals in the rules of changing default XP awards or procedures AT ALL. During the 2E era I may have seen less than a...

Gah! Yeah, I forgot 2E does that (haven't actually played 2E in 20 years when 3E replaced it, but played it exclusively from its release up to that point). Pretty sure I've made that error before... Principle STILL applies though, even if it's in reverse. By default 1E only considers totals...

1) 1E. I think this needs clarifying though. BASE 1E wasn't so much generous in general in regards to MC clerics (denying cleric as a class to most non-human PC's!), however it was inexplicably generous in regards to HALF ELF multi-class clerics where HALF of their MC combinations are...

Everything you gained because of a temporary/non-permanent increase in an ability score is lost when the increase goes away. If you build a house of cards on a temporary intelligence boost, that house will collapse when the intelligence boost vanishes for whatever reason - dispelled, item...

:ROFLMAO: ALL of 1E is an editing train wreck - and it didn't help that Gygax was so inept at writing CLEARLY. They were looking for misspellings of dweomercraeft when they should have been asking, "Okay I just read the last 5 paragraphs, but... what's the actual rule here?" I love 1E to bits...

No edition of D&D has an expiration date.

So, no such thing as a single-classed character? What player in their right mind would have a PC with only a single class, and thus limited to 6th level in that one class, as opposed to ALWAYS having a PC with two classes and thus twice the character levels?

Everything I ultimately complained about with 3.5 as a whole vanished when I looked at E6. I still have never run or played in an E6 game - but I very much want to.

nvm

It is definitely A KEY PART of early D&D editions to just ACCEPT that characters will die - even when the DM takes multiple steps to reduce deadliness, and even when it's experienced players who always make good decisions. Characters WILL die. Change that to absolutely prevent any PC death if...