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I've just been using chatgpt, I've found it to be pretty good at helping get the ideas flowing.

Whatever it is, I hope the dragon wins.

Wasn't appendix N 1e only? I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in any other edition so it's not surprising that it doesn't exist for the current edition.

Not sure I ever tried the C&T critical hits, wasn't it quite complicated?

I'm flicking through the DMG and have been looking at critical hits, a rule which I think we must have incorporated immediately upon finding out about it. There's been some confusion over the years since I'm sure people have mentioned that AD&D didn't have critical hits but I could always...

Is it that they look odd or is it that no one wants a dragonborn with their weapon drawn staring straight at you. I actually think these look pretty good.

They look great, but seems like they always have to look sideways if their body is otherwise oriented towards the viewer.

It was actually back in complete wizards handbook where they gave specialista benefits, but I think the spells and magic book lowered the levels required to get the benefits, as well as adding in the new specialists like the alchemist and artificer which I don't think existed beforehand. Some...

According to the core rules 2.0 expansion (that old PC generator software) the kits are still available to both paladins and rangers.

Haha, yeah the amazon wasn't a great kit, the benefit doesn't even benefit if against a party of level 5+. The skills and powers kit comparison with 5e backgrounds is apt. They didn't do much from memory (I'd have to go back and reread, did they have benefits and hindrances?) but they did make...

Yeah, it's why I feel like it should be the complete warriors handbook, seems like a lot of it was for all of the warrior classes, even if some kits like the cavalier had restrictions on who could take it, the book itself was really for all of them. Going back and looking at the kits, I'd...

The CFHB specifically called out warriors with (fighter, paladin, and rangers) in brackets to clarify which classes they meant.

Interestingly, I just read in the complete fighter's handbook (which should be called the complete warrior's handbook) that weapon specialisation is open only to single classed warriors (fighter, paladins, and rangers). They can only have a single specialisation at 1st level but can gain more as...

I like rolling each round, it's what we use in OSE but that is side initiative so we can decide who goes first on our side, changing how things play out (we only declared our actions if casting a spell so that there was a chance for disruption). Haven't used weapon speeds since 2e and not sure...

Oh right, I must have read them in the wrong order or perhaps I just have the chronological order in my head. The dark elf trilogy was about his time in the underdark and escaping to the surface, right? I might have never even read the earlier books, it was so long ago.

I sort of wonder about this, 2e was released in 1989, Drizzt doesn't become a ranger until book 3 of the dark elf trilogy which came out in the middle of 1991. I can understand that they may have had some potential notes regarding the overarching story of Drizzt, but unless it was a very, very...

Pathfinder 2e uses perception as initiative but sometimes the DM might call for something else. In the examples given, they use stealth when trying to avoid detection, or deception or diplomacy if it is a social encounter. I think that's a pretty cool idea to have a few choices for different...

2e had the following which summarised a couple of paragraphs: In short, follow the rules as they are written if doing so improves your game. But by the same token, break the rules only if doing so improves your game. I kind of feel like this is in a similar spirit to what's been mentioned in...

I like the idea of it having a familiar to spy on enemies

Some combat spells are warranted for sure, something to give them an advantage or to suprise those pesky adventurers, but dragons I also feel have a bit of a superiority complex meaning they're more likely to rely on their physical and natural abilities in combat so I wouldn't feel the need to...