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I oscillate between preferring NPCs (as in other humanoid wizards, fighters, paladins, etc) to be built like PCs and to be built like...

Who cares there's a fix somewhere when 3/4 of GMs don't know it's there, 3/4 of those who do will refuse to ever even consider using it...

I'd forgotten that comeliness was a thing in UA, I think I saw that and opted against porting it into my 2e games. Back when we played...

I loved the book (in theory). It was full of some really new, experimental things. In practice, not all of them were good- if used as...

Well my book fell apart with little usage, so it was bad in that sense. :censored:

The bad off the top of my head The cavalier is way overpowered and designed differently from all other classes. Comeliness is a...

I was .... 16 when it came out, and it made a big splash with some of the groups in my neck of the woods. My group never really used...

Don't remember it being bad. It was just another book of D&D stuff. Much like Wilderness Survival Guide and Dungeoneer's Survival...

I got into AD&D in 1986, so UA was already available. I bought it even before the DMG and basically used almost all of it back then...

As someone learning and DMing a 1e game right now, I am regretting adding weapon specialization to my table. It has wildly imbalanced...

I wonder if that's the difference, I was reading it when I was a teenager and thought it brought in some cool ideas.

Just out of curiosity, something I see mentioned from time to time was that unearthed arcana was considered bad or unusable. I remember...

i will admit, even within the sole confines of 5e's spell slots and levels i think there's surprising room for making different...

That's not quite how I read the OP, but I might be wrong.

It might not say it in current DnD, but it's fairly common in fiction that people need the spark of magic before unlocking the ability...