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Monks' bespoke percentile surprise system is the one that always throws me.

One thing that you can absolutely be sure of is that people who play or played 1e AD&D don't know the rules.

Sometimes folks unfortunately don't read or understand the question before they answer it. But I suspect that they're answering...

This is the second time in the thread someone asserted that, and I have to ask, "How did that work?" What's the translation from 1e...

I can't help but find these two statements contradictions. You've invented as is usual your own method of ability score generation...

sigh I knew when I posted that you'd obstinately miss the point. Yes, there aren't so many wishes and in general they aren't used for...

I do think a reachable goal for an AD&D revamp would be to keep the generation of character stats consequential for determining...

I was in a very long running campaign which went over name level, and at that point we tended as much as playing with our primary PC's...

never ran this one, but it drew the attention of our group due to the Huntsman NPC class, sort of an anti-ranger. I'd thought about...

Unless this is a deliberate gimme to the player, I would think that if you are going to replace a stat, you shouldn't also get to roll...

We're on the same page then. Gutting the ability score system is a bridge too far, and you can't fix it and have something that is...

Oh, I agree. I was thinking more of raising the requirements on the core 4, and lowering the requirements on the other classes.

I think that the solution is actually somewhat the reverse - make paladin, cavalier, ranger, barbarian, bard, and so forth actually...

Wholesale changes to ability minimums is one of the things I'm thinking about as a way to "fix ability scores" while still leaving the...

Totally agree on the impact, but I see that as feature, not bug. It creates a strategic tradeoff between using your 18 on Str to get an...