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    TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?

    1e MM Men entry page 66: "Normal men have from 1-6 hit points each." There are non-normal men with different HD entries on page 67: bersekers have 2-7 hp, cavemen have 2 normal d8 HD, and tribesmen have 1 normal d8 HD. 1e DMG page 30: "Note that regular soldiers are 0 level men-at-arms with...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I did that for a 5e one shot, though I had never heard that a WotC designer did so as well. I was riffing on a friend’s story from back in 1e but who had done something similar with an albino red.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I was thinking more that blues can work most anywhere, desert, sea coastline, mountains, whatever. Others like whites and greens have less options for predator camouflage.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    I always thought of blue as blending in with the sky.
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    In world the explanation is often The Chromatic Dragon Tiamat as mother of evil dragons.
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite 20 Companion Rules (287) Microlite20 Undead: The Dead Walk Lesser Invocation. Lesser Invocations The Dead Walk: Create undead as the spell animate dead.
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    Undead Origins

    MICROLITE 20 Fantasy Expansion: Character Creation Options (211) Microlite20 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Ghost: ? Revenant: ? Vampire: ? Vampire Tortured Soul: ?
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    In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?

    So when you said that "the net effect would be that people would participate in the rituals with even more enthusiasm." the people you were talking about is limited to only high level clerics and not other people? I can see D&D cleric spells as priestly rituals, but not really sacrifices, most...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    The best for the thief/assassin cover story is he would always say he would check for traps, I would roll and say "You don't find any." and he would then have the party ranger who had the most hit points open up the door or chest or whatever "just in case."
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    Not always. In my long term 1e campaign my brother and a friend played wild elf assassins and convinced everybody they were thieves for a couple levels, even though neither of them had any thief skills until third level and my brother was running around with a trident and shield from the start...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    One big fighter advantage is that most other classes were not combat balanced against them. In original OD&D the three classes seemed decently combat balanced, the Fighting Man was tough, had great defense and decent offense including the ability to use powerful magic swords. Magic Users were...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    But every 1e Monster and god entry has those psionics lines. Which are just taking up extra space since there are already monster stat lines for special attacks and defenses where this could come in.
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    It does not have to be a bad faith thing. I have two friends who I consider great DMs who I really do not ever want to play a cleric or warlock in their games (and paladin in one of them) because what they consider the cool parts of the classes (specific ways to handle the god/patron...
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    Undead Origins

    Wayfarer M20 v.10.1 (185) Microlite20 Shadow: ? Skeleton Warrior: ? Wight: ? Zombie: ?
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    In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?

    But sacrificing to the gods in D&D does not unerringly cause a wall of fire to surround your city when enemies attack. The closest would be high level clerics having consistent powerful magic. How the gods interact with people in D&D varies greatly, often there is a don't act directly on the...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    Magic Users xp charts started slow but accelerated once they got going, noticeably around 6th level when they got multiple fireballs things became easier. It then slowed down again at really high levels. From 7th to 12 MU levels though they are often higher level than the fighters who are just...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Yes, but it is a 1,000 page $100 PDF.
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