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"Both DM and Player" is missing as an option; as opposed to just one or just the other.

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...

"Bards begin play as fighters, and they must remain exclusively fighters until they have achieved at least the 5th level of experience...

18 Con? My first thought is Ranger provided I can meet the other pre-req's.

House rule, I think. We also gave crossbow to almost everyone as an allowable weapon, but not sling as that's a bit more complex than...

Also bring back spell interruption. It's not a complex rule unless you want to use RAW initative, and it really does help tone down the...

A rewritten/re-organized 1e and/or B/X and/or BECMI (which several OSR games functionally are) is amazing! I guess I'm just advocating...

It's possible to drop some of the more complex-for-complexity's-sake rules and still keep things vaguely balanced IMO and IME. A good...

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...

Yay! This is why every player should have more than one PC available for play, and switch off so everyone gets time to level.

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...

Okay, but by the same token, one of the rules of the game was also that before you even got to the training, the DM had to grade your...

The answer to almost all of these issues is, IME, to decouple xp from treasure. This slows advancement down A LOT, and suddenly the...

I think the larger point or takeaway (at least for me) is that the base qualities of the fighter like more hit points, extra attacks...

This is what I've been saying for so long. Let the Fighter be THE Fighter again, other systems do it, its not impossible.