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In theory, yes. In practice, it's been my experience that most GM's in 5e don't allow you to unilaterally use the Help Action without some provisions. Like say, you can't help someone open a lock unless you also have Thieves' Tools proficiency, or you have to explain how you are helping. One...

Fantasy Craft's rules constantly refer to other sections of the book, forcing you to keep going forwards and backwards to determine how things work. We used to joke about needing to make a hyperlinked pdf to properly play the game.

I really liked the Osmium Elemental.

These are the oldest 1e sheets I have laying around:

You know, there's a very simple answer to this if you need to obscure things from players with darkvision. I pointed this out to my Warlock player the other day. They were approaching a dragon's lair in a swamp. "As you approach the mouth of the cave, the edges of which look half-melted...

Not totally unreachable, as it happens.

Is there? I think it's really the same thing- if you only have the PHB, Assassin's don't even have this ability. If you chose to play an Assassin, based on the writeup in the PHB, you are missing nothing, nor do you expect anything more. It only becomes available if the DMG is also owned...

Basically, if your DM decides they don't want to deal with it, they can simply not use it, and you'd never know otherwise. What we'd call an "optional rule" now, like how Oathbreaker Paladins were in the 2014 DMG, except with an extra layer of Gygaxian opaqueness so not only would a player not...

It seems strange to us, but you have to remember, a lot of concepts we take for granted now hadn't been worked out yet, and Gary was only human (even if he came off as a tyrannical curmudgeon at times in his writing). Imagine if the Assassin as a class existed today. You'd expect some things...

Indeed, if you decide before 9th level to try and learn how to use poisons, you can spend all the money and time needed to do so, and automatically fail for not knowing you haven't met the prerequisites!

I remember an example of that from the Book of Exalted Deeds in 3e. Still it's neat to see.

Or 3X2(9YZ)4A, for that matter.

Logopolis! Nothing like some good old Block Transfer Computations, huh?

You know, for a Chaotic Evil Succubus, Sabine is a loving and supporting girlfriend.

Not that this should be a problem for an Evil class like Assassins!

I can only assume Gary had some funny thoughts about players using poison.

Bards. Multiclassing. Psionics.

In my current game, I've had 8ish sessions, roughly 4.5 hours long (some shorter, some longer). The core party members, who make almost every session, are currently level 7, and the stragglers are level 6. I would expect after 56 sessions, if the game continues at it's current pace, a year...