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My understanding of Hyperborea is that it originally billed itself as 1e but with classes, races, monsters, and magic specifically...

There were magic pools detailed in the DMG (Table VIII C. Magic Pools, page 172) that could raise or lower stats. TABLE VIII. C.: MAGIC...

Lords of the Peaks: the Essential Guide to Giants 3.0 Cloud Giant Ghost: This ghost haunts an abandoned castle on a cloud island that...

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...

I love these write ups!

Its the DMG...so many places in such dense text. (My memory of weapon speeds used on a tie is in fact there, but under "strike blows"...

Started on the Horus Heresy books. The first one, Horus Rising by Dan Abnett, really surprised me with how good it was. I'm on book...

Just read Once Was Willem by M R Carey, which was pointed out to me by this thread, and I’m grateful. It’s a remarkable piece of work...

Is the claim here that Joseph Goodman and Michael Curtis are Nazis or racists or bigots? That seems overblown imo even if one holds that...

Yeah, that starts off with surprise and then pre-initiative things, you don't even get to actual initiative until page 5.

At first, I thought "doesn't seem so bad." Then, I realized that I was on page 2 of 20.

Sorry I can't help with the actual question, but my next D&D campaign may very well start in a tavern with a gentlemanly old scholar...

How did 1e AD&D initiative work? Convolutedly. If you distilled it down to just comparing d6s per side in the fight, you were golden...

It was very complicated and the rules were poorly written and spread out over many places in the PH and DMG so many people ran it in...

There are a couple 1e mechanics I prefer over the 2e ones. While I really love 2e specialty priests I prefer 1e clerics and druids...