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<blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 4526628" data-attributes="member: 43749"><p>1) I'd be more interested in a tweaked version that fixes some of the 2nd edition bugs.</p><p></p><p>2) Guidelines on how to build your own races and classes would probably be best. Expanding the core too much bogs the game down.</p><p></p><p>3) Tweaked spell schools would be a swell idea.</p><p></p><p>4) No kits. Most of the good kits are just the core classes played in a different way. The bad ones helped wreck the game.</p><p></p><p>5) NWPs could be clarified, but they aren't an inherently bad system.</p><p></p><p>6) Upward scaling AC. THAC0 is just not worth it.</p><p></p><p>7) The hardest part would be including the setting pieces of 2nd edition. 2nd edition wasn't built on the rules -- it was built on the ecology notes in the Monstrous Manual, the role-playing notes in adventures, and the varied and interesting campaign settings. Obviously you can't replicate all of that, but adding those minor role-playing notes makes the 2nd edition feel, IMO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="an_idol_mind, post: 4526628, member: 43749"] 1) I'd be more interested in a tweaked version that fixes some of the 2nd edition bugs. 2) Guidelines on how to build your own races and classes would probably be best. Expanding the core too much bogs the game down. 3) Tweaked spell schools would be a swell idea. 4) No kits. Most of the good kits are just the core classes played in a different way. The bad ones helped wreck the game. 5) NWPs could be clarified, but they aren't an inherently bad system. 6) Upward scaling AC. THAC0 is just not worth it. 7) The hardest part would be including the setting pieces of 2nd edition. 2nd edition wasn't built on the rules -- it was built on the ecology notes in the Monstrous Manual, the role-playing notes in adventures, and the varied and interesting campaign settings. Obviously you can't replicate all of that, but adding those minor role-playing notes makes the 2nd edition feel, IMO. [/QUOTE]
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