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

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...

The game is consistent but the tabletop-inch system is still a bloody pain. I went through the spell lists and converted everything to...

I think this is highly variable from table to table. Given the DMG example of such a pool, and the one from B1, it's highly likely that...

There were magic items that raised abilities when they were used, or permanently (such as manuals, etc.). Wishes, etc., could be used...

How can you forget about the fruit in Temple of Th... Oh. I see what you did there. Trying to make me SPEAK THE NAMELESS ONE INTO...

We've kept training and the associated costs - if nothing else, having to train forces the PCs to take some downtime every now and then...

Right you are. Exponential XP scaling was a great feature of all pre-3e editions, IMO.

Yep. If one fighter stays a fighter and another fighter dual classes to druid, at exactly the same XP, assuming they continue to accrue...

Back when this was a much more relevant discussion, a lot of 1e players did not in fact switch. One such DM, looking at my 2e player...

If you're looking for a serious game, 1e will gently fight against you as there's a quiet underlying sense of whimsy and gonzo-ness to...

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

Interesting, in that by the time 2e came out we'd long since made many of these changes as houserules. We dropped xp-for-treasure (the...

Not just achieving Bard - any type of higher level advancement that brought rewards. I'd include when certain classes acquire spells...

The 1e DMG is a work of art. I ran 2e a few years back but made heavy use of the tables in that DMG. I started with 2e and the Mentzer...