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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I've met people who played "1e AD&D" for over a decade who weren't even aware those things were rules because they'd always played... -
Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.It doesn't really though, or at least, not much. The problem is hypothetically a 1st level fighter can have +6 to hit and +9 to damage...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.That's the obvious thing to do, and you can see a variation of that in my write up of the thief. The problem with your specific concept...
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Celebrim reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with
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I agree that being on hard mode requires a different, more cautious style of play. I don't think we can say it's just starting out on... -
Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I'm not familiar enough with BECMI to address how it worked, though I do think the BECMI dividing the round into stages is a very...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.OA is filled with little kludge fixes to the system with varying degrees of success. For example, all Samurai can rage and function as...
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Celebrim reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
I like something similar too. If I was hypothetically hacking AD&D, I think I would let a 1st level fighter set their Strength to 17 if...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I think one thing that I have amply demonstrated in these threads with AD&D 1E tags, some of them going back nearly a decade now (like...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.While the table in the Dragon magazine is incredibly useful and functional, it's also an arbitrary fix which even the author has to...
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Celebrim reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
Yup. There was a fix offered for this in Dragon Magazine, where someone did the math of breaking down the percentage adjustments...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I think you are largely right, but I also think that's at some level hilarious because the purists will insist that part of the charm of...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.How many wishes does it take to go from 12 to 16 strength? The answer is four. How many wishes does it take to go from 16 to 18...
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The weird non-linearity and number of subsystems baked into the ability score system of AD&D make removing or heavily modifying it...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.To this day I love subsystems to solve particular problems. For example, I frequently use a Chase subsystem in place of 3e's standard...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Having played in that era and having read the endless Dragon magazine arguments about how character generation should function, and all...