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To truly get to either Basic or Advanced Old School I think you'd have to make some more changes: --- a non-linear stat bonus system...

No. However, in the WotC-era, it is the one that feels most like 2E, certainly. As long as 5E is character-focused instead of...

I love pulling resources from old editions- monsters, spells, adventures, etc. I convert old kits from the 2e brown books into...

Personally, I hope that 5e/D&D doesn't go in this direction - I'd be happy to leave feat chains to the Pathfinders. 5e occupies a nice...

I don't see how three or four choices between ~ 50 feats can be more complex than 20 choices between five or six times that, frankly...

Great stuff, I also took some inspiration from that temple for a recent D&D temple, but would have used this interpretation had I seen...

Here's the Monday Blues Map #211 map. This week's map is a stand-alone temple map with a dungeon level. For the temple level, I took...

I dislike feats in general and would certainly not deem them as "superior design" than sublcasses. Chains of feats are as old as 3E if...

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

But that's my favorite part of D&D; the part where it generates weird results nobody was expecting. All things being equal, I'd rather...

This reminds me: depending on the edition, Reincarnation might the only option for reviving elves. OD&D Raise Dead works "with men...

Yep your right I'm mixing up the various R spells (same in 5e).

Agreed. Restoration in 1e wouldn't help you here. There was a different high-level spell - Regeneration - specifically for this...

Yeah, a DM would have to rule on the fly for this stuff. It's pretty rare, too - in 40+ years of running 1e-like D&D I can think of...

1e had (relatively) more design philosophy behind it than did 0e, where they really were inventing it as they went along. Some of that...