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That's actually pretty reasonable. Only the problem is that it's just like introducing Wild Elves and Grey Elves and Drow Elves as PC...

I think one thing that I have amply demonstrated in these threads with AD&D 1E tags, some of them going back nearly a decade now (like...

For sure. I don't think I'm clamoring to go back to AD&D, but if I wanted that experience for the nostalgia, I'd want to keep the "fun"...

That's an interesting perspective, and I think there's some truth to the idea that AD&D is playable with characters having mediocre...

I think part of it is that we live in the entertainment world Buffy created. It feels a lot less revelatory and necessary now, having...

While the table in the Dragon magazine is incredibly useful and functional, it's also an arbitrary fix which even the author has to...

Yup. There was a fix offered for this in Dragon Magazine, where someone did the math of breaking down the percentage adjustments...

How many wishes does it take to go from 12 to 16 strength? The answer is four. How many wishes does it take to go from 16 to 18...

The weird non-linearity and number of subsystems baked into the ability score system of AD&D make removing or heavily modifying it...

To this day I love subsystems to solve particular problems. For example, I frequently use a Chase subsystem in place of 3e's standard...

Having played in that era and having read the endless Dragon magazine arguments about how character generation should function, and all...

If I was to run 2e again, I'd simply remove exceptional strength from being coupled with an 18 and allow warriors to roll it no matter...

I keep thinking that I'm done with my exploration of the rules of my youth. There are three things in 1e AD&D that I don't think can be...

I had mine personalized! Not up for grabs :D But me gouging the cover an hour later is a good lesson. I covet treasure and it rusts...