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Most people playing AD&D used some (often unique in their area) subset of the gygaxian spew of rules text...

Only partially true, in 1e... all advanced careers require you to get the skills of the entry path, and you could only pick new starting careers in class, or roll for cheaper cost in class for another basic, or roll for an out of class basic career.

because it's extremely common for the +4-+5 level and -4 to -5 level to be preachy as hell about the -2 to +2 level players "not carrying their weight." Note that in my experience, the -4 to -5 level are looking to see out of the box, don't care what the rules bring because they expect the GM...

it made up for it with PCs having stupidly high atts.

it's worth noting that Discord demands a modest bandwidth, but gets picky about latency (lag), too. Fiber barely lowers latency; it just ups width.

Sometimes, the potatoes are due to poverty... but yeah.

They (and possibly you) don't understand the 1e/2e carreers... Starting Career isn't what the PC does now, it's what they were doing until play begins, what they're walking away from... unless intending to follow the exits. Also, in 1e, one need not complete the profile to take the exits unless...

Had a Dwarf player in 1e, his Slayer hit T8... noting that fire damage was 1d4, and not thinking about open ending, lit himself on fire to scare some orks (which succeeded)... but round 2, he hit 4× 4's and a 3. (Remember: damage from no-to-hit sources don't need a confirmation check to open...

The moment it's a minority of 1 trying to dictate their preferences over those of the majority of the group, or even the whole, It's beyond badwrongfun... it's being a full–blown «bleep»ing jerk.

I've run plenty of games where optimization pretty much required breaking the rules... amongst them, Traveller (Classic), Starships & Spacemen, T&T 5e, BX D&D... ... All are roll atts in order, then do the best with what you have. I've also run a bunch where it was quite doable to optimize...

3:16 Brute Squad Orkworld (John Wick) Sorcerer (Ron Edwards) CORPS + Apocalypse CORPS + Down In Flames – 13 adventures where the world is suddenly facing a shocking apocalypse... each one a different apocalypse. End of the World: FFG's series of 4 rules light apocalypses: Revolt of the...

as someone who has a love and hate of various editions... Yes, the rules do tend to make a significant difference in the feel of play for me and mine. 1e is very swingy in combat; a party might be trouncing a handful of trolls due to a key lucky roll early on, or totally screwed by snotlings...

On my agenda, but not anytime soon. Didin't like WFRP4 nor WFRP2, did like WFRP3 and WFRP1...

There is no task resolution system. There are many individual action special case rules, and a combat skill system. Marc's original Task system was stripped from the drafts in editing.

Technically, that's the 2nd edition.... Or maybe the 2.2 edition. If you have the 4 Little Black Books Deluxe, you have books 0-3. If you have the later Letter sized version, you have Starter plus some extras... 1981 and later printings have significant rules differences (mostly not at the...