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Roll roll roll the dice Gently down the board...

Rolled. Never seen anybody use ot even express interest in using array or point buy in my 20 years of playing.

As for what stat to add? Well, clearly the most important and defining stat for any character is - on a 3-18 bell-curve scale - shoe size.

1e already had that: you could only be brought back from the dead a number of times equal to your starting Constitution score...

A torch in both of those editions is good for an hour, and a flank of lantern oil for four hours. AD&D: My DMG has a torch at 25cn...

IN B/X, a torch burns for 1 hour and a flask of oil lasts 4 hours.

I no longer have the D&D forum bookmarked. Instead, I just have the subforum list bookmarked, start with my notifications and from there...

I add a red line indicating where the door is when it's open, which serves the same purpose. The only time this doesn't work (either...

If there isn't, there 100% should be...or at least an extremely strong suggestion. And IMO the role-playing needs to suggest the bolded.

This is the problem when assigning linear bonuses to bell-curve stats. A 3 is the extreme low end of the bell-curve. In real life...

This past summer in a 1e game, my fighter ended up with a 6 for intelligence. It opened the door for a lot of role play opportunities...

My reaction to rolling a 3 (assuming 4d6, drop the lowest)? Today is not the day to buy a lottery ticket!

In fairness, if 18 is supra-genius then 3 is (in modern terms) disabled. Even more so given that anything less than 3 is essentially...

For me, if you're not at least trying to play to your stats (particularly the low ones) you're cheating.

So play 3 Charisma then, or 3 Wisdom, or 3 Dexterity. I haven't had any true 3's played in my game but did have a couple of 4's -...