D&D General What rule do you hate most from any edition? (+ Thread)

[Helldritch]

Yeah... rolled my first char ever. A fighter with a 17 in strength and an 18 in intelligence. I was so disappointed. Turns out that switching for wizard at level 7 was the best thing I ever did! Rose to 20th level as a wizard, Helldritch was the name.

 

[Maxperson]

Frodo, Eowyn, and Faramir healing in LotR are all big things (was that all magical injury though?).

Croaker in the Black Company is the physician/medic in addition to being the annalist, so you see a bit of that in their.

Matt in the Wheel of Time, Sparhawk in the Elenium, some instances of it in Terry Goodkind books, lots of it in George R.R. Martin books, Harry Dresden in The Dresden Files, Luke in Star Wars, James Bond, Corwin in Nine Princes in Amber, and the list goes on.

 

[Maxperson]

Yeah... rolled my first char ever. A fighter with a 17 in strength and an 18 in intelligence. I was so disappointed. Turns out that switching for wizard at level 7 was the best thing I ever did! Rose to 20th level as a wizard, Helldritch was the name.

Yeah. I'm not saying that it never happened, but how often did you see an 18 strength rolled and it not end up a fighter, ranger or paladin.

 

[Vaalingrade]

This is one place where I don't want to translate story to game. A novel can do interesting things in POV from a sidelined character. In a game, being sidelined is just that.

 

[Helldritch]

Yeah. I'm not saying that it never happened, but how often did you see an 18 strength rolled and it not end up a fighter, ranger or paladin.

Not a lot. God was I mad for not having that 18 ST... But as a DM. I rarely saw a martial character under 17 in Strength. And we were rolling in place. We were using the 4d6 keep lowest pretty much all the way up to 4ed. UA method was banned as soon as I got the book.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

2e - Racial level limits
3e/Pathfinder - Everything that isn't an attack provokes an Attack of Opportunity, I think this of course limits trying anything creative
4e - AEDU, it made classes too symmetric and horribly limited things you could do out of combat
5e - Damage save to keep concentration, this limits choices for viable spells and is either asking the playing to enforce something that detrimental to their own interests, or adding more things for the DM to track.

 

[Cadence]

Darkvision.
I'll use memes to explain why.

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I had never read the PhB straight through with 5e before jumping in and just making the characters I wanted. I've been reading the Level-Up A5E Adventurers Guide... and holy F. Everything does have Darkvision!?!?!

 

[Maxperson]

Not a lot. God was I mad for not having that 18 ST... But as a DM. I rarely saw a martial character under 17 in Strength. And we were rolling in place. We were using the 4d6 keep lowest pretty much all the way up to 4ed. UA method was banned as soon as I got the book.

I saw a lot of martial characters under 17. Fighter seemed the go to class for stats where 14-15 was your high roll and it landed in strength. I saw some with 14 and a lot with 15-16.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Stats were either rolled in order and then classes were chosen, or stats were placed. If they were rolled in order and an 18 was rolled for strength, I saw all of 0 people opt not to play a fighter, paladin or ranger. Rolling that percentile on strength was one of the holy grails of the game. If you placed stats, that 18 wasn't going into strength unless you were playing a fighter, paladin or ranger.

Of course the real "I won the lottery" result for 3d6 rolled in order wasn't the 18 strength, but simply meeting the prereqs to play a paladin at all. 12 strength, 9 constitution, 13 wisdom and 17 charisma made sure paladins were super rare under Method I.

 

[Helldritch]

I saw a lot of martial characters under 17. Fighter seemed the go to class for stats where 14-15 was your high roll and it landed in strength. I saw some with 14 and a lot with 15-16.

We rolled the 4d6 and players would make the class in which their highest stat was. The few 16s we could see justified the 2nd level strength spell by a huge margin. Enlarge was also used a lot. Lower than 16 in strength meant that if you were a martial, it was a multiclassed character.