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I was thinking of 2e Bards, actually. But also, Half-Elves can't Dual-Class in 1e, making it actually impossible for them to become Bards. For more information about this, Summon Anti-Bard!

I've long wanted to ditch the mental ability scores as we know them, definitely Intelligence and Wisdom, because there are so many parts of the system that ask the player to use their own brains to make decisions. Even if you balk at the idea, demanding that players should roleplay how...

You're not wrong, but we were all younger and stupider back then. Some people I played with back then really got the wrong idea from the rulebooks- they assumed it was the DM's job to screw over the players, so any time you could get one over on the DM was a "win". I can forgive them for being...

I did this in one of my early outings as DM- curse Gary Gygax for constantly using words in flavor text that I'd only ever read, not heard out loud!

Years ago, I placed a Deck of Many Things in my campaign. - Boy I wish I could stop there, but it gets worse. I cut out the Deck of Many Things cards from an old Dragon issue. When the time came, I pulled out all the stops- I lowered the lights, lit candles, I pretended to be a...

RE: Fleeing in combat. This is really table-dependent. Even though 5e has chase rules, there's no clear line of demarcation between "you are in combat" and "you are now in a chase". Often, enemies are as fast (or faster) than player characters, and might have ranged attacks. They usually...

Oops, I didn't mean Glabrezu, I meant a Bone Devil, which has a much closer offensive capability (lower to hit, one more attack, potentially higher damage with the poison). Don't ask why I typed the wrong name, other than oldmanitis, I was looking at the Devil's stat block. But there is a...

Contradiction or no, that doesn't mean it's not something they've said about magic weapons. The way I understand it, the game's basic math doesn't require one to have a +1 sword at level x to determine if they can hit enemies. The quality of being able to bypass monster resistances in order to...

Well, when everyone else had a magic weapon and I didn't, yes, I certainly felt nerfed, lol. Most characters could get their first magic weapon in AL in the first 5 levels. In fact, I could have had one, but it turns out the Oathbow given out in the mod can't be a shortbow, which was less than...

This is what I was referring to with Xanathar's- sidebar on page 136: Note the use of the words "necessary" and "generous" depending on group composition.

I think it was like 7 or 8. Ironically, the very next session (Storm King's Thunder), I picked up the Opal of the Ild Rune, which allowed me to turn my old non-magic bow into one that did +1d6 fire damage (with archery fighting style and a 20 Dex, my bonus to hit was kind of ridiculous so I...

Of course, then there are those characters who, for whatever reason*, don't get access to magic weapons and have to run the gauntlet of lower CR foes with annoying resistances/immunities. *Be it lack of meaningful guidance on when/where/how to add magic weapons to the game or who insist that...

I always wondered why the 1e Thief doesn't get a chance to have "Keen Hearing". I suppose you could assume that's part and parcel of their ability at 1st level, though I suppose it begs the question of what happens if a character with Keen Hearing later dual-classes into a Thief. "Ask your...

In the old days, letting the party find higher level scrolls of spells to be used in case of emergencies was just something I did. I was pretty put out to find out how hard it is to use scrolls in 5e. So my current house rule is that you can use a scroll of any spell found on your spell list...

Well, making Int do more for the system is a worthy cause, I think. I mean even now, Rogues have Int save proficiency, which implies somebody thinks it should be an important ability score for the class, even if virtually nothing they do keys off of it. You could make it MAD (as Psions get...

You're probably right, but it's hard to predict these things. Columbo, if memory serves, got a major boost from "global situation" that left people scrambling to find new things to watch. And it's not like that suddenly got people jonesing to watch Banacek, McCloud, or McMillan and Wife, so...

It is unfortunately how consumers have been trained to think. "Oh hey, there's a new edition of this thing, we should play that." "Is it...better?" "Come on, it must be!" Now someone must like playing Chronicles of Darkness or Vampire 5th, but they can have my 20th anniversary (and OWOD)...

Which is what people say the original Thief was meant to be like, but somewhere along the line the rulebooks gave a very different impression, especially when different sub-systems for listening (1e DMG screen) and climbing (see the 2e Mountaineering NWP) are given.

Page 38 of the 2e PHB: Which isn't saying the exact same thing, I'll grant, but that's how the DM's I played under ruled it. /shrug