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D&D 1E On Variability, House Rules, Research, and the 1e/5e Difference
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Remembering the days of sending SASE with questions on rules to game designers/publishers and getting handwritten answers and realizing many reading this will have to google SASE to see what it means.
"Real GMs Go By The Book." actual 2e advertising poster displayed inside B. Dalton and Waldenbooks book stores when 2e came out.
"Real GMs Go By The Book." actual 2e advertising poster displayed inside B. Dalton and Waldenbooks book stores when 2e came out.
[MENTION=6799753]lowkey13[/MENTION] - I don't think my campaign was typical once we got into deity level play, but at the lower levels I don't think it was necessarily less typical than yours. I didn't play Gygax's Isle of the Ape back in the day, but reading it years later certainly reminded me of my late '80s games. Yes UA was a big power up for PCs - but when it comes to magic items you only have to look at the items given to NPCs in 1e adventures, or the items assigned by the DMG NPC adventurer items table, to see how item-drenched 1e was.
There was not a lot of 2e IMC afaicr - maybe [MENTION=326]Upper_Krust[/MENTION] can correct me, but I think we just used the 2e Bard class and the 2e monster XP numbers. Maybe the THAC0 tables. 1e Cavaliers normally cap at 3 attacks, but I took it up to 4, taking a leaf from BECMI.
There was not a lot of 2e IMC afaicr - maybe [MENTION=326]Upper_Krust[/MENTION] can correct me, but I think we just used the 2e Bard class and the 2e monster XP numbers. Maybe the THAC0 tables. 1e Cavaliers normally cap at 3 attacks, but I took it up to 4, taking a leaf from BECMI.
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and that's before talking about non-standard PC races, like gold dragons.
I think that dragon PC lasted 1 or 2 35 minute lunchtime sessions before being killed by the Illithid abomination.
Gygax talks about monster PCs in the 1e DMG and there is a pic of a dragon PC fighting kobolds, so it wasn't totally out there. In 2e of course we had Council of Wyrms, with far more powerful dragon PCs.
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Fallibility of memory indeed!! B3 was Palace of the Silver Princess, The Lost City was B4.
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Ok, that link is insane and those players had way too much time on their hands or were way too generous with XP, etc., though I heard stories of those types of teenage gaming groups that handed out XP like candy on Halloween. But in all my years of playing 1E/2E, no party ever went past the low teens for level, and that was in campaigns that lasted years and were played weekly. I also think all those games used some or most of the 1E Unearthed Arcana without breaking anything. I also remember one campaign used a mixture of 1E and 2e because of the timing of the release of 2E, but campaigns after that one set aside the 1E books and used purely 2E only. I also never played in a campaign or with a group that was running the old Basic boxed sets, or who mixed any of the Basic stuff in with 1E, unless any of the houserules came from there and I did not know it.
