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No edition of D&D has an expiration date.

So, no such thing as a single-classed character? What player in their right mind would have a PC with only a single class, and thus limited to 6th level in that one class, as opposed to ALWAYS having a PC with two classes and thus twice the character levels?

Everything I ultimately complained about with 3.5 as a whole vanished when I looked at E6. I still have never run or played in an E6 game - but I very much want to.

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It is definitely A KEY PART of early D&D editions to just ACCEPT that characters will die - even when the DM takes multiple steps to reduce deadliness, and even when it's experienced players who always make good decisions. Characters WILL die. Change that to absolutely prevent any PC death if...

First you tell everyone expecting you to be the most useful character in the group to quit being a jerk. Then you get to work. You crank a heavy crossbow for a fighter, render aid to anyone who's fallen, throw flaming oil, just HOLD the torch, act as lookout, throw daggers or darts or rocks or...

Tip: FORGET real world space. It has bugger-all to do with Spelljammer. Spelljammer rules are NOT designed to fit in any way with the real world, other than MAYBE the distances. Nothing else is grounded in reality. Not gravity, speed, acceleration, atmospheres, navigation, propulsion. ALL...

Barely experienced anything like it myself. It's overwhelmingly a reaction to personal experiences of people I've seen post online facing similar shenanigans. And that is the exception that almost proved the rule. One week you lure them into false security with the fun, friendly kobold ally...

Unfortunately, the majority of people took that to mean that alignment could - and SHOULD - therefore never, EVER be a reliable thing. Any assumption that any renowned vile, EVIL monster was actually worthy of death meant that your character committed the crime of not first verifying beyond a...

In a sense I agree with Celebrim in that the word "psionics" itself isn't entirely correct as D&D uses it, and that D&D doesn't need another magic system. However, the word sounds cool and nobody doesn't get how D&D is using it, and they couldn't care less about being accurate to its original...

AD&D is my favorite edition, but most assuredly ain't perfect. Neither is 5E, especially when you look under the sleek exterior it hasn't but a fraction of the vibrancy that 1E still exudes. <editionrant>1E AD&D is a handmade, work-in-progress compilation of house rules, made by adult...

Nope. Never felt any need to. I can't even specifically recall doing that with ANY monster in D&D, though I'm sure I must have at some point. It severely undermines one of the purposes of alignment if players otherwise have every reason to expect alignment A but you instead substitute...

Mad Irishman Productions Homepage has been my go-to for ages now.

THIS is how you AD&D... until your group wants to goof on some other cheeze fest you come across.

:) People have an understandable, but unfortunate tendency to assume a legal system like our MODERN legal system, with associated professional policing and investigation, when they should be assuming a legal system that is the WORST examples of modern jurisprudence. That is, lords and judges...

Had a really long response composed, but what it boils down to is that I think 3E failed far more spectacularly in the meta-department than in the gritty details of the mechanics. Most of the issues with the mechanics are addressable, and I think E6 did fantastically along those lines, most...

MY version of Gary's game is better than Gary's. I thought of things he didn't, and perhaps even devised things beyond his capability - but 1E is the game it's based on.

If they're shaped and colored like bright yellow duckies - two pair.

"A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece."

Not a good idea to surrender control of ones campaign if you're not willing to see it go down in flames in just one session. Yes, it's just that easy... Don't let that &$%* just HAPPEN when you're in charge. Bring game play to a SCREAMING HALT and find out just what the F the players think the...