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I'd say yes. Seems like it should be very handy. Forge letters and seals of nobles and governments. Conterfit and clip coins. Copy passes and letters of credit. Reseal real letters once they have been read by parties they were not intended for. In an urban setting or one with intrigue, a good...

It doesn't say that after accepting their surrender, being bound, and treating them kindly, that they can't still find them guilty according to objective standards and summarily execute them in a manner as quick and painless as possible. There's plenty of wiggle room in the alignments for the...

Paladins kill evil. That's their job. As a DM, I wouldn't have an issue with it unless she had made a deal with the orc of safety for information.

1E, complete with three ring binder of house rules.

Well, back when the spell lists were created, 9th level was "name level' IIRC and considered the begining of high level. At that level, they were supposed to be preforming some hard-core miracles. Now that the game has been respeced so that the average campaign is supposed to end in epic level...

As a 1E bred dice roll kinda guy, I could agree with you on the NPCs, but not on the generic mooks like the watch. One expects NPCs who have proven themselves to be above average, but not the average joe who hasn't. If there is much interaction between the players and the guards, it will become...

Knife and handaxe - because it can be hard to chop wood or skin a rabbit with a bastard sword. They come in handy for simple jobs as the tools they are, and in a pinch, they can be used as weapons.

Realism*, encounter level, and style of play are the problems. If you assume that people's stats are the same as the distribution of results for 3d6, then only 8 in 10,000 people have stats equal to or better than the average watchman. So to come up with 800 guards in the watch, you need to...

Had an incubbus in my last game. He mainly worked on his own political power and such. He rarely cared about treasure and never even took any of the money (because he coudl usually talk anybody into givign him anything). In the end, he only owned a few magic items but they were very powerful. He...

Well, it's only railroading if the players aren't allowed to leave the plot if they want. If they have the choice to take the cool magic sword and split then it's not really railroading even if they do suffer consequences of doing such. Also, one would expect that using such plot coupons would...

Exactly, it needs to be messed up so that there are various house ruels to fix it. If everything is easy to reference in a single book and not half a dozen books, a three ring binder of house rules, and the oral traditions of that particular gaming group, it's not going to have the 1E feel.

If it's cleaned up, then it's not going to have "that old 1E AD&D feel".

Yes, but it's still easier and cheaper to get copies of 1E than either of those two games. I live in a reasonably large city and am fairly familiar with the game stores in the area, and I can only think of two that would have C&C or Hackmaster and a few that might. However, I can come up with...

I wanted to make elves and fey different than just humans with pointed ears, so I did two things, I made them lawful and made the importance of the law vrs chaos axis more important than good vrs evil. This seems to make the actions of various elves and fey strange enough to not match up with...

About two years ago, a friend said she was going to run a 1E game. We grabbed our old books and showed up and played weekly for several months without issue. The books are cheap and ever present at used book stores. Many people know how to play by 1E rules. It is definatly an option I have used.

Well, I see it mostly as a way of getting things done. In a game where the players are being competitive, I found it trouble to keep track of what each player was up to and what the others knew. So, I simply stated in this game of intrigue that after a certain point, all player knowledge is...

I would suggest: - a non-battle oriented divine caster (Cloistered Cleric) - a light armor archer

I disagree. It breaks versimillitude to think that a man trained in combat has never been taught how to fight. In a world where there is DR, then people who are expected to come up against it surely would be warned. In a world where there are monsters, it can be expected that there would be many...

BoEF is listed on WW's website as being re-released by them in a few months. Next month IIRC.

7 levels of sorcerer and some pretty decent magical and physical defences. Then each DM needs to think about why they are doing this. Are either doppelgangers or raksashas part of a larger organization? How ambitious are they? I always pictured doppelgangers as being like cuckoos and taking...