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The best for the thief/assassin cover story is he would always say he would check for traps, I would roll and say "You don't find any."...

I have used AD&D psionics in serious games, and I like psi in my fantasy, but I won't lift a finger to defend the PH appendix version...

Something that's being lost here, and I played and DM'd AD&D from the very beginning, is that people back then used house rules and...

If the PC doesn't spend any game time on collecting and tracking mistletoe, reduce all spell power by 50% assuming oak leaves or other...

On a related to the OP note, considering how perfectly playable the The Strategic Review bard was, the fact the PHB bard was turned into...

Randomness, lucky rolls and treasure drops, and exploiting luck to build your PC's legend were definitely part of the core game...

Weapon spec is so good that in my campaign I felt the need to give single-classes clerics, thieves and MUs their own forms of...

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...

Let's give the full arcane spellcasters a d4 hit die again! :devilish:

Absolutely. 1e was better designed than folks give it credit for IMO, even if the organization left much to be desired.

The Imaginary Bestiary isn’t a real monster book—it exists only as a table of contents. Its purpose is to entertain and amuse. The...

Fighters also had the interesting choice of becoming nearly unhittable even at low levels by putting their second highest stat in...

One of the topics that comes up (you know, not often or anything ...) on D&D threads is the so-called "LFQW," or as other people like to...

Players dig the barbarian, starry-eyed from the prospect of double Con bonus and huge hit dice, only to be let down in play when they...

Now that our look at White Dwarf has reached the issues where it is firmly established, I caught up with Lew Pulsipher, game designer...