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It is true for your Thief levels, but it is not true for your Bard levels. Bard was not a dual class and your Bard hit dice are in...

But the bard is not dual classing so the character does not have to meet the requirement for dual-classing.

I'm thinking the 1e bard is the Wimp Lo of AD&D 1e. "We intentionally designed it to make no sense and be bad as a joke."

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

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

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

I have never come across an explanation for why crossbows were so weak in AD&D, when IRL they were super effective. When I first got...

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

I've never understood some people's aversion to magic gear as a power add. It has plenty of precedent in modern fiction and mythology...

Let's face it, the leveling up and training rules didn't make a lot of sense either. They were pretty crippling to the thief as well...

I've encountered quite a few DM's who would insist they were right even when the language is clear as day, lol.

It is one of the high points of the game. Though the one time I played Rolemaster, I found myself on the Shock and Stress critical...

Let's be honest- nobody really knows how the Bard class is supposed to work. Snarf has probably done the most in-depth examination of...

At least, until critical hits enter the equation. There are some patently absurd results on the various tables, lol.