D&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D

[fuindordm]

Which really gets crazy once True Neutral deities started popping up.

"I am Neutralis the Uncaring, I care for nothing."

"Wow, True Neutral! Can I be your Cleric?"

"I could care less."

"Sweet, I'll be True Neutral."

"Alas, that is something I care about. No."

God of the Neutral Planet in Futurama?

"If I don't make it, tell my wife...hello"

 

[Milieu]

I...I don't know what to say. I'm positive it was in there, but now I can't find it. Mandela Effect strikes again?

The multiclass table didn't appear in the original, but in errata in Dragon magazine. If you have a later printing where the errata are incorporated, the added tables appear on p. 72.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I...I don't know what to say. I'm positive it was in there, but now I can't find it. Mandela Effect strikes again?

If that said darker elves, it’s the unearthed arcana table.

There is another table in the phb with standard races

I had a copy of some tables from
Dragon magazine too that had lots of new possible multiclass combinations.

 

[James Gasik]

If that said darker elves, it’s the unearthed arcana table.

There is another table in the phb with standard races

I had a copy of some tables from
Dragon magazine too that had lots of new possible multiclass combinations.

Ok. So I either got that list from Dragon, or from a different UA than the one I currently have access to. Bizarre!

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Ok. So I either got that list from Dragon, or from a different UA than the one I currently have access to. Bizarre!

What was in dragon was a multiclass table greatly expanded! If I recall, there were cleric magic uses thieves and a host of other like ranger druids. I still have it. Tomorrow I will post a photo to see if we are all having a stroke or just don’t remember!

 

[JEB]

The level draining discussion reminds me... in the original boxed set, monster XP was 100 x monster level - where level was either HD, or the next up HD if they had HD+1 or higher. (Like a few other important things in the boxed set, this isn't explained directly - you have to glean it from the example in Book I, page 18.)

In Greyhawk, Gygax changed this to roughly the XP values used for Basic D&D and 1e, which were much much stingier. (Also, you had to calculate these values yourself! Until the 1e DMG was released, anyway.) The rationale: that the original 100 x level amounts were much too generous. Only Gygax could look at a game as lethal as original-boxed-set 0e and think that...

Also of note: XP in 0e (for both monsters and treasure) was multiplied by (higher of current dungeon level or monster level)/(character level). In the aforementioned example, a 8th-level magic-user on the 5th level of a dungeon earns 5/8 of the base XP (but would earn 7/8 for defeating a troll, which counts as level 7.)

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Is this it?! @James Gasik

This is from November 1985 dragon magazine! It show multiclass possibilities!

I got these from a friend of a friend we played with in the early 90s and still have a few copies due to me saving all gaming stuff imaginable.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

The multiclass table didn't appear in the original, but in errata in Dragon magazine. If you have a later printing where the errata are incorporated, the added tables appear on p. 72.

I was blathering about it and you already clarified. I took photos of my errata and posted them.

 

[Alzrius]

I was blathering about it and you already clarified. I took photos of my errata and posted them.

And, you know, I also posted a picture of it.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

And, you know, I also posted a picture of it.

Whoops

Dug through my sh*t for nothing!