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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D.No. In fact, they have nothing really do with each other. I think the requirements of a backstab are basically you are behind the... -
Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.Oh, it gets worse. Because it is so broken as written it has to be hard nerfed in secret in the DMG requiring a full half-page of...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D.In the write of the revised thief, thieves can take the Sniper NWP to do it.
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.It doesn't help that its mechanics are terrible. It's everything that is wrong with early D&D design wrapped in a toxic package that is...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.It sounds like you'd do well surviving my games. When playing a PC, the thing you should be asking is, "How is this character going to...
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Celebrim reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D? with
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Honestly, I've yet to see a character have significantly more survivability for having an 18 in their Prime Requisite. The last time I... -
Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 2E Al-Qadim campaign setting.I never ran it, but it fits in neatly as a part of the world in my heavily animistic psuedo-European default setting. I love a world...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.Creative and surprisingly good considering. I think after playing around with it that you'd have to also have a rule like "Reroll your...
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Celebrim reacted to TwoSix's post in the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D? with Like.
3d8, treat 19+ as 18 gives a nice spread, with 2/3 of arrays having at least one 18 and only a negligible number not having at least one...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.The idea is creative and it deserves credit for that, but it has the same general problem that the BECMI idea of subtracting from your...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.If you were reading in the other thread you'll see that I recommended something like this as a possible "solution" to what the system...
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Celebrim reacted to Voadam's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
For the big OP point of AD&D's reverse bell curve big impact ability score system I was quite unhappy with it by the end of 2e. The...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.You can see how I'm dealing with these problems in my little project here, where I'm reducing the requirements to get into the...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.It's amazing how often the PCs manage to not find the stuff you thought would be easy to find, and then randomly detect magic in an area...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.The problem with this is that AD&D (and I'd presume BECMI) has so much single attribute dependency that it's pretty much always a good...