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Intentionality in RPG design is always a good thing IMO, even if I don't personally care for the results.

This. Also, slings. Had Gary never heard of Balearic Slingers?

Sure, but that's easier to do if you don't hand out magic items as lavishly as the 1E treasure tables do, and if you don't expect the...

The equipment lists were expanded in UA. Base PHB the clerics only ranged weapon is throwing hammers, and thieves only had slings.

The training rules really make the most sense in a context where the PCs are exploring a mega-dungeon relatively near a home base West...

I am experiencing some Mandela Effect here regarding missile weapons. I could have sworn that clerics, druids, mages, and illusionists...

I like putting the magic back into magic items by giving more of them names, histories, notable former owners, and extra powers that are...

Magic gear as a power add is fine. Magic everything is silly, and a major contributor to making magic feel uninteresting (especially if...

I think the bottom line is that 1e was much better balanced RAW than people give it credit. However, those rules were complex and very...

It was the loading time. If they wanted to balance it out more accurately, they should have had a minimum STR requirement for longbows...

Well that makes more sense. Interesting that the GDQ series was probably what made me think of it in the first place. I don’t think...

Well, there are rules for training without a mentor, it just takes twice as long (and therefore twice as much gold :)) There is also...

In retrospect it is kind of amazing how EGG’s writing could be so verbose while also being so thoroughly opaque, leaving important game...

I think the reason I bounce off any hard line discussion of 1e rules is just the actual structure and organization of the books...

Okay, but by the same token, one of the rules of the game was also that before you even got to the training, the DM had to grade your...