Oh I keep myself mentally engaged so I'm working on that front. It's just hard to find hard copies of games I can study along with an in-person group to play with.
There were some interesting combat options in the Player's Option books. They brought in BECMI's weapon mastery, 1e-style combat, and a few other things. As it always was though, it was up to each DM to use what rules they wanted to at their table.
Man, this is me. I keep hoping my docs will be able to help with the brain fog but so far, nothing. It doesn't help that I'm only really interested in playing TSR editions.
In 2e, it was optional to get rid of race/level limit restrictions on classes and I went that route. In exchange, I gave Humans some racial features and all races start at a negative XP (ala BECMI I think?) based on how much cheese they have.
Domains are a major source of income in the mid-late game that can be used to finance PC shenanigans. They're also where PC levy their troops from. It doesn't really matter how good your AC is and how many attacks per round you get when you're facing units of dozens of hostiles from that earl...
Play Location/Method: Discord Play-by-Post
Game/System: AD&D 2e with some house rules
Player or GM? I am the DM, seeking players
Time/Frequency: Players are to post within 24 hours of it being their turn to post (barring real-life circumstances)
Genre: dark fantasy
Current needs: roughly four...