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Same here, except 1983/84 for me.

Kudos Lancelot. Great read. Very entertaining. Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun.

Agreed. And yeah- lots of fun to roll xd6 as a magic-user when you toss a fireball. Even better when you're the DM, your NPC magic-user tosses a fireball, and seeing the look on the player's faces when you pick up a bucket of d6s :)

Or you know, people who don't like damage on a "miss" (me being one of them) can always house rule it away. Don't think the game will implode if you do.

Nope. I still have one of my original 1e characters and still play him when I play (I mostly DM now). Couple of my players have been with me since the beginning and one still has his very first character (character started in 1e, moved to 2e, then moved to a hybrid of 1e/2e). All hit the level...

Interesting idea. And not bad at all. I'd have to see it/try it in play, but it definitely sounds better (to me) than the current incarnation.

Yeah. I think the Deck had a couple of cards that bumped them, maybe. Ioun Stones too (course the bonus here went away when the stone did IIRC). Some magic items just gave a flat score too...like the girdles of giant strength and gauntlets of ogre power.

True- but it would be funny as hell to see the halfling rogue with say Str 6 stabbing the crap out of Mr Fighter cause the cleric died, they had no way to heal, and no one wanted to make the journey back to town.

Yep. Some of the best games I ever played (as player and/or DM) were 1e. Only stat bumps back then were from magic items and wishes..unless you had Unearthed Arcana and played a cavalier. I may be mistaken, but I don't recall any other spells that raised scores except wish...and even then, IIRC...

You're doing it wrong. No edition of D&D (or any other game I know of) works like that. Every edition of D&D has always stated at least 1 point of damage is dealt. (And I'm specifically referring to the above; not to stuff like DR.)

Monsters have XP listed. Character sheets have needed XP for 2nd and 3rd level. What else do you need exactly?

Yeah. This. AD&D worked fine for a lot of years with capped ability scores.

Way way to early to make that call for us. My homebrew's been going since the early to mid 80s. It's still working for us as is. I do see a lot of things in the early 5e docs and articles that sound promising (and a few things that don't), but we shall see what the end result looks like.

Yeah. This. If we switch to 5e and If that's the way it works in the final rules, it'll be the first thing that gets houseruled for sure.

Must spread XP first, but I agree with ya. Well said.

One of the old articles on WotC's site mentioned +1 from race and +1 from class, so there's the even bonus (if they still follow that train of thought/design).

if the funky snake hairdo doesn't give it away, I'd guess when you see the first party member turn to stone, then you'll know.... "Don't look!" :)

This. And there's enough in there to give feedback on what they're looking for on this go around.

Wouldn't a bonus to poison saves (say something like +10, like certain races get in C&C against certain things) or even just advantage on poison saves get the same feel?

Yeah this. Medusa of legend/mythology didn't "slow" a victim or anything else. Look at her eyes, turned to stone. The end. Chances are good anyway the party has access to 'flesh to stone', so the petrification is really nothing more than a speed bump anyway.