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This, to me, is the reason to go back to 1e and 2e. The magic items are the key to customizing your character, they are the way you...
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One of the things that Snarf noted but seems slightly under-acknowledged in these responses (understandably for non-1e folks) is the...
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Bard rolls fighter HP up to 7th level, so the same as a fighter until then. Then the fighter stops rolling hit dice at level 9,and no...
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i think people would cry bloody murder if the 5e fighter was redesigned to have half the innate advantages like 1e fighter did...
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I presumed the 15 dexterity requirement in the PHB appendix superseded the dual classing 17 score requirement. The class is already hard...
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Yes a lot more. Leveling worked differently so a F7/T9/B11 is not a 27th level character. They would have around 400,000xp which would...
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Agree. Most of them were not stronger (until you found potions or a gauntlets of Ogre Power that I believe the Cleric could not use)...
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As a mere babe who started with the dawn of 2e, I can't say how much of this was true in the 1e days. But when I started, one of the...
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To me, this seems to ignore the important part of how OD&D and AD&D 1st made fighter types work. Accuracy/THAC0. Against a foe with an...
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The 18 strength was also easier to achieve when using the age rules and adhering to the PHB rule of having two scores of at least 15...
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Fighters also had the interesting choice of becoming nearly unhittable even at low levels by putting their second highest stat in...
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Yes, I think they're called "ribbons" these days. Not that it isn't bad design... Whelm was the hammer, Wave was the trident. Fighters...
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Conclusion: All of Snarf’s 1e Fighters just happened to have 18 Str and 18 Con. I’m sure he totally rolled it. 😁
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What about a fighter with Strength 17 and Constitution 16? Are they stronger than a cleric with Strength 18? Is a special class ability...
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One of the topics that comes up (you know, not often or anything ...) on D&D threads is the so-called "LFQW," or as other people like to...
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