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Weren't there some sort of magical fruits in the Desert of Desolation series? Maybe in the Lost Tomb of Martek.

Magic fountains were in the DMG. It didn't say what the fountain would do, but the tricks appendix did include a secret door to them. In my experience, most DMs I played with had magical fountains in the adventures they created that did various things, including some that raised and/or...

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 bother with training or stopped the training after a few levels because it was super annoying. Remember, one of those 15's(strength) had to be a 17-18 or you...

Actually, thinking back on it, we allowed someone with the proper rolled stats, who remembered bards even existed, and who wanted to be a bard, to just start as a 1st level bard. I saw that happen one time from 1983 when I started to 1989 when we switched to 2e.

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 when both of those levels met the bard requirements.

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 be a bard before his fighter friend reached level 6.

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 was the high stats required, and having to start over at level 1 three times, being unable to use prior class abilities(except hit points) until you exceed the...

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 those two classes would be anywhere near 11th level. Thief being the easiest class in the game to level would only be level 6 with 28k xp. So while the...

XP from gold piece gain is a huge one. Unlimited spell scaling. 2e caps fireball at 10d6 and magic missiles at 5 for example.

You misunderstand me. It's what d&d would term an encounter, not how d&d players would describe it in normal speech Since 3e encounter in d&d has widened quite a bit with its meaning.

LOL We may never have agreed more! :P

That rule will never see the light of day in my game. Choices should matter.

I don't know what you are talking about. There was no motive assigned to you by me. My statement was purely for myself. I won't lie and say that my game is not player driven, because it is player driven.

It's interesting that 1e talks about encountering locations, obstacles, and situations in the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide. It was not written by Gygax, but was approved by him. "Three types of caves are commonly encountered: limestone caves, sea caves, and lava caves." "Geothermal heat is a...

I struggle to take this statement seriously. Clearly "encounter" is in D&D terms. It doesn't matter if nobody would describe a town as encountered in normal conversation. In D&D terms a group who crests a hill and finds a town is encountering that town.

Yeah. That's a very major departure between myself and @Lanefan. I can't disagree with him more that players will try to cheat unless the DM stops it somehow.

Speaking for myself, it's because I'm not willing to lie and say that I am.

Road 1. The point is, the DM set up an encounter and the players bypassed it. This is a sandbox where prep happens, since that's the context of the thread. So clearly route 1 and 2 are on the map, and the DM set up an encounter on one of those. If the players take the other route, they have...

A freeway bypass is a road that lets you avoid a town. The town is never encountered. That's what bypass means. To pass or go around something. If the group takes route number 2 from A to B because there are multiple routes, and never encounters the bandits on the road of route number 1...