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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...

Being more lenient with thieves comes with age... I was harsher when I was young and my friends would try to convince me that their...

I just had a conversation with one of my players about the feel of combat in 1st-2nd edition vs 3rd & 5th edition. For context, the...

Druids are one of the most unique classes in the game. What other class gets 3rd level spells so early? They level up lightning fast...

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...

Why I loved 1e? It was my introduction to RPG’s and gaming in 1982, summer before 8th grade. Introduction to a lifelong hobby and some...

Aesthetics and nostalgia, plus this: I think there's a lot of truth here. 2E tried to be all things to all DMs, and encompasses some...

Hmm... Pure 1e (without Unearthed Arcana or later books) is still a petty tight system for short adventures and long-term campaigns...

In theory a player can certainly role-play a pure fighter as a leader and strategist, sure. In practice, in my 40+ years of gaming, I...

The problem, as is always the case with any Fighter sublcass, is that the base chassis is too full of stuff. You can't actually give...