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What DO you like about 1E AD&D
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AWizardInDallas
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Game World
1. The lack of a specific game world permeating the rules and impossing on my own game world.
2. The lack of most villians and monsters in D&D being cross bred with denizens of hell, each other or worse; the lack of monster templates which complicate; the ease of calculating XP.
3. The low pressure simplicty of creating new monsters, spells and magic items.
4. The expectation that dwarves are not mages and barbarians don't like/fear magic.
5. The freedom to play my way and being reasonably assured that a designer isn't going to cut things I like from my game system simply because he doesn't like them.
6. Adventure plots that aren't heavily reliant on demons and devils or other "supreme evils".
7. Game balance and flavor.
1. The lack of a specific game world permeating the rules and impossing on my own game world.
2. The lack of most villians and monsters in D&D being cross bred with denizens of hell, each other or worse; the lack of monster templates which complicate; the ease of calculating XP.
3. The low pressure simplicty of creating new monsters, spells and magic items.
4. The expectation that dwarves are not mages and barbarians don't like/fear magic.
5. The freedom to play my way and being reasonably assured that a designer isn't going to cut things I like from my game system simply because he doesn't like them.
6. Adventure plots that aren't heavily reliant on demons and devils or other "supreme evils".
7. Game balance and flavor.
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PaulofCthulhu
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Don't all your GMs wear a shirt & tie to play? How can you expect to exert supreme executive authority if you're not dressed for it? Our referees dress appropriately, yes, siree!Tewligan said:
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Philotomy Jurament
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1. Strongly class/archetype based*
2. The "implied setting" with humanocentric focus, etc.
3. Strong focus on the dungeon
4. Gygaxian prose
5. Art (some stinkers, of course, but many very evocative pieces from a number of artists
6. Different, but usually dead-simple, subsystems to fit different concepts.
7. Embrace of randomness
8. Not PC.
9. "Vancian" magic
10. DMG tables (encounters, dressing, tricks/traps, etc)
11. Simple stat-blocks
12. Embrace of resource-management
13. Embrace of player skill as a big factor in success, in addition to PC qualities
14. XP for gold
All of this added up to a game that was extremely well-suited for the kind of play that I enjoy: dungeon-focused, fast moving, challenging for the player as well as the PC, human-focused, et cetera. Note that late 1E (and even some of the original 1E stuff that was commonly ignored) eroded some of this.
* - pre NWP, of course.
2. The "implied setting" with humanocentric focus, etc.
3. Strong focus on the dungeon
4. Gygaxian prose
5. Art (some stinkers, of course, but many very evocative pieces from a number of artists
6. Different, but usually dead-simple, subsystems to fit different concepts.
7. Embrace of randomness
8. Not PC.
9. "Vancian" magic
10. DMG tables (encounters, dressing, tricks/traps, etc)
11. Simple stat-blocks
12. Embrace of resource-management
13. Embrace of player skill as a big factor in success, in addition to PC qualities
14. XP for gold
All of this added up to a game that was extremely well-suited for the kind of play that I enjoy: dungeon-focused, fast moving, challenging for the player as well as the PC, human-focused, et cetera. Note that late 1E (and even some of the original 1E stuff that was commonly ignored) eroded some of this.
* - pre NWP, of course.
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Baron Opal
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I always wear a suit and tie when I play Diplomacy at a convention. I consider it fair warning.
