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The Ranger was always fairly popular in my junior high school (late 1980’s) AD&D 1E groups, but more because of Aragorn from LOTR and...

Gary was kind of obsessed with using the weapon proficiency system to enforce archetypes, while famously not bothering to use the...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Fantasy narratives often imbue characters with powerful staffs, portraying them as tools of authority and...

Curse of the Azure Bonds (Part 39): The Cave of the Beholder (Part 4), The Cave of the Beholder completed! We buff up before going into...

https://www.campustech.fr/le-monde-du-jeu-de-role-est-en-deuil-apres-la-disparition-de-francois-marcela-froideval/ The article is in...

Also, mentioning "Initiative" and "AD&D" in the same thread is like rubbing a magic lamp of grognard summoning. Use with caution!

My understanding and praxis is that any movement during a round costs time in segments. Most PCs move at 9" or 12" so assuming that a...

The latter. You re-roll initiative every round. So yes, Evasion "switches on", as in "is a thing you can do" based on whether you're...

Regarding henchmen and hirelings - when I played D&D as a teenager we didn't use them as players, but we usually had large parties and...

XP for treasure gives the PCs a clear incentive to go on adventures, avoid unnecessary combat, and adds a risk/reward tradeoff to every...

My own interpretation was that all the races thought they could cast spells but since none of them were maia the spells never worked.

Strongly agree on all counts! If you're interested, here's my take on the single-class bard for AD&D:

The 1e Ranger is still the best Ranger, and it's not even close. 2e completely ruined the class and it has yet to recover. 1e Thieves...

Well @Reynard I feel your pain, but my party had a completely different experience to yours...the below Play Report was a Random...

There's an interesting design methodology worth exploring here. D&D is a game that blends narrative and gameplay. You can roll a 1 on a...