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James Gasik reacted to lall's post in the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D? with
Wow.
I’ll be playing AD&D 1e this summer for the first time. We were given a choice and I chose Method V as our DM allowed it for... -
James Gasik reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General Reincarnate is and has always been, weird. with
Love.
Your right. Pretty sure I had him confused with Arc from skeleton knight or Mary and Blood who were also from faraway paladin. Iirc... -
James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D.Page 27 of the PHB says "twice normal for the weapon used per four levels of the Thief", but I agree that's vague. I started playing 1e...
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James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D.I never really understood the hate for ranged sneak attack- it's called being a sniper and people have done it historically for a very...
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James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D.The arguments I've gotten into with people who claim that their Thieves were unstoppable backstabbing machines when I drag out all the...
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James Gasik reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Redesigned and Rebalanced Assassin for 1e AD&D with
Sad.
The DMG passage stating that either having no back or being immune to surprise negates the ability has always indicated to me that 1E's... -
James Gasik replied to the thread D&D General Reincarnate is and has always been, weird..Something I just remembered, and I don't recall if it was mentioned (I'm too lazy to go back through the whole thread) is what happens...
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James Gasik reacted to jolt's post in the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D with
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We had pondered switching the MU and Fighter XP charts, but we never got around to it. I would do it now though if another campaign... -
James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.I remember a chance encounter with a group of ancient powergamers back in the day where all of their characters were dual-classed humans...
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James Gasik reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D? with Like.
Arrangeable 17, 16 allows for perfectly viable clerics and M-Us so he must have wanted something more broken than that, likely Cavelier...
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James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.For a long time, I used 4d6 drop lowest, rerolling any 1's, just to get the scores of 3-6 (pre-racial modifiers) off the table. It...
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James Gasik reacted to tetrasodium's post in the thread D&D General Reincarnate is and has always been, weird. with Like.
I've had some family in town lately and been putting off getting to this. Fair enough & I stand corrected on thief being even more of a...
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James Gasik reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D with Like.
I like your comment on the thief, it is the only class that does not get a significant power-up after name level. (Well, you could call...
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James Gasik reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
What's worse about them, and what really infuriated me at the time, is that they are incoherent. They are so punishing that no M-U...
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James Gasik replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.I believe the only exception to Wands being spell storage devices were the Eternal Wands from the Magic Item Compendium, which...