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Some folks made similar complaints about AD&D when it came out. :) That it was munchkinized and PCs were excessively powerful compared...

Never made it to 4.0 much less 5.0. I lost interest except for some FR source books in 3.0 (mainly for background) and looked to other...

He worked with WotC on the 3.0 roll-out, and apparently was very positive about parts of it, but eventually did voice some unhappiness...

He disliked Thieves so much, he called his novel “Gord the Rogue”.

Gary said a lot of things. He was garrulous. He was often very right*, sometimes very wrong*, and more than occasionally grouchy. I...

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...

TSR Thieves are bad to some people. There's been people in this thread who've posted their enjoyment of playing the class. This idea...

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

Held a war, nobody came.

I don't think so. Speed and complexity are real but what I think is, that it is very subjective that all those features are negative...

Ranges are in game units, which are 10s of feet indoors and 10s of yards outdoors. I could understand if you find that strange...

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...

"But my clone is different."

Speaking only for myself: Several restrictions on magic users were removed or loosened, for the worse: Preparation time drops from 15...

There are a couple 1e mechanics I prefer over the 2e ones. While I really love 2e specialty priests I prefer 1e clerics and druids...