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We did similar things with BX/BECMI/AD&D (after we ditched training) -- instead of gp=xp, it was xp for every gp that was 'wasted.' That could be carousing, donating to your religion's temple, spent on a bling-wagon, put into a dedicated 'castle fund' that likely would never happen, anything...

Between the Family Guy take on it and Star Wars Detours (not that we ever got to see that), I think that's already been covered.

To add to this, where WotC-era games can use a single rating, classic D&D games had a level of reward only roughly tied to that threat-level assessment. Most of the xp you would get would come from the treasure distribution, and that came from a treasure table list that looked like "C, 3xL, & Q...

Yes, but that shifts the requirement from 13 Str (remember OP premise is 1st level, so we're looking at chain mail, not plate) to 14 Dex, making the challenge even harder.

1XP=1GP was a an incredibly elegant solution Gary stumbled upon for the fun little treasure-hunting game he and Dave cobbled together. In hindsight a simple lesson -- use your incentivization structure to reinforce the central gameplay loop that you expect people to enjoy about playing the game...

IMO, there is validity to both basic positions. It would be good if known issues were addressed in the next ruleset, and it sometimes seems puzzling when they aren't ('do they not see what we've been complaining about on D&D forums for years?'). At the same time, the reason things like...

Oh, to be sure, this is all back-of-napkin-ing it. We can throw in massive amounts of other situational changes (say, anything that does fire or poison). Perhaps better not to have done everything down to the .5 point, presenting a false sense of accuracy.

Honestly not sure. I'm not sure that people play level 1 (which at 300 xp is potentially one session) the same way. Perhaps the best answer I can give is: any type of situation where overall durability is the primary goal is likely to have at least one short rest (and the difference between...

We already agreed on that. What I'm getting at is -- wouldn't those still be very different situations towards answering the main question of whether knowing the outcome makes fights boring... and I just realized I should be asking Zardnaar this point (as they were the one who made that statement).

It's a tough call, but I think I would say fighter. Two 1d10+1 healing surges per short rest plus theoretical 19 AC (chain, shield, defensive fighting style) can be massive. With a 14 Con and two short rests, that can get us 12+(1d10+2) (regular HD spending during rests) + 4x(1d10+1) = 45.5...

While none of this is in any way untrue, I feel like it is being so by using different definitions of easy*. If one game is easy because it is easy, and the other is easy because it is so hard that people end up with house rules, finding risk-averting exploits, the scenario-maker padding their...

AD&D 2nd Edition always felt to me to be rife with possibility. All the options. All the optional material from mid-late 1e in the core book. Character customization. XP rules which could* allow you to play epic quest adventures like LotR or the Dragonlance modules without worrying about...

Between her first husband in another life wearing her dresses better than she did, and then this, she has got to feel that her femininity is being challenged. Most of the spouse characters did end up being a little one-note. Keiko was an avenue towards children and unsympathetic spouse who...

1. Do you do, or do you do not, remember the scene I am referencing? 2. You will note that I did not say anything about it being good. Oh, I know. The point is... is there a point? I don't know if there's a point. My point is that this that this is very different from Bashir and Garak. I don't...

{'IMO' of course} Bashir and O'Brien fit very well as the stereotypical roommates/buddy cops who act like an old married couple and may in some ways be a metaphor for marriage, but aren't really a romantic dynamic (exemplified by The Odd Couple and spoofed by Scrubs). Bashir and Garak fit*...

Think also about the child labor laws and how many hours (both per week and consecutive hours) you can have a child work. If you have massively-multiple hours of makeup-chair time (putting it on and then taking it off), you might end up with 1-2 takes worth of time where they can actually do the...

Those are all accomplishments or positive qualities. By themselves, perhaps not enough to make the character standout cool. The one orc in The Two Towers that survives Legolas's arrows and gets the bomb in place to break the walls of Helm's Deep gets a badass moment, but isn't treated with fan...

Reasonable. However, I think they did telegraph something special for the character. They were advertising him as a big deal (action figure, animated story in the holiday special). And in ESB there were six bounty hunters, but only he gets direct interaction from Vader, and only he actually does...

Boba Fett is the ur-example of a wasted opportunity. I think people caught what was being set up, even if it didn't come to fruition. The SW holiday special and then ESB set a trajectory where he was going to do something pivotal and impressive in the next installment(s). It's just that between...