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I think a lot depended on how your table ran thieves. For example, take something like move silently. IIRC this is how we played it...

Some folks really like playing on hard mode. Your Mileage May Vary as always. :) Individual tastes always vary. Though whether...

This thread is like an Edition Cold War. :LOL:

I think that depended a bit on what you considered all of a thief's appropriate skills to be. This was in the heyday of character...

I think this is highly variable from table to table. Given the DMG example of such a pool, and the one from B1, it's highly likely that...

I started with 2e, long after 1e was OOP. I got a lot of my 1e stuff later via bookstore hunting and eBay. To this day I would not play...

At the same time, 2e included all but the most broken stat generation methods 1E and 1.5 had in the book as methods. I know 2e called...

I just think in practical purposes, they were awful mechanically. Not just because it's highly unlikely you were rolled at least three...

The second character I ever played was a half-orc named "Crunt". I didn't yet have a player's handbook since it was way, way, way back...

I was DM most of the time for my group. We knew all the rules well and were quite aware of all the henchmen and hireling rules, but few...

I started out in the late 70's and played some form of D&D or another steadily (but not exclusively) until about 1983, took a multi-year...

On the rare occasions that we tried to do something with our characters that was not already covered by the rulebooks (which was...

This was 100% my experience, and I was the DM! We played basic rules, jumped to AD&D, were utterly confused and just sort of kept the...

I wonder if people will speculate that Chaosim will soon be going under now that Mearls is gone? Will Mike make a post about how COC is...

My reaction as well. "You playing a duck?!?" "HELL YEAH, I'm playing a duck!"