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I did for a while in my long term 1e campaign I ran starting in the 80s but eventually decided to drop it. Contorting things to make...

We always interpreted the bard rules to mean you could overwrite that requirement, but in hindsight, we were probably doing it wrong and...

XP for gold is for sure a big one. But then again, 1e had training times and was super expensive*. You needed all that gold. 2e had...

We never did. Occasionally we'd try just needing a trainer and the gold, but never once used the rating system. Usually we didn't...

The problem with 1e bards wasnt really the design; it was the horrible AD&D dual-class rules and the general AD&D desire to punish...

Actually, thinking back on it, we allowed someone with the proper rolled stats, who remembered bards even existed, and who wanted to be...

For sure. If it ever came up(I saw zero attempts at bard during 1e), we'd have let a multi-class half-elven fighter/thief become a bard...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/rulings-not-rules-how-will-you-solve-the-bard-half-elf-dilemma.679892/...

If that second fighter switched to thief, he'd reach level 5 as a thief while the first fighter is still level 5 as a fighter. So he'd...

A level 9 fighter has 250k xp. A fighter 5/thief 5/bard 10 has earned 250k xp. The barrier to being a bard wasn't level. The barrier...

You had to be a 5th level fighter(18k xp) and a 5th level thief(10k xp), so 28k xp total. Even if you were single class only, neither of...

They're both great editions IMO: IMO any game can be "slowed down" by a lack of rules mastery. But, once [at least the GM] gets it...

This I have to disagree on. The DMG is full of a whole bunch of this and that with not a whole lot of focus to it all. It's why it's...

I'm going to ignore everything related to preferences, aesthetic, nostalgia, hero worship, etc, and look at the simple issue of defining...

Hmm... Pure 1e (without Unearthed Arcana or later books) is still a petty tight system for short adventures and long-term campaigns...