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The former. I let them free cast from their allowed spheres (again, I’m starting with 2E AD&D). They are still required to pray for their slots and whatnot. IIRC this was sort of implemented in 3/3.5 but only allowing substitution of memorized spells with equivalent level healing spells. I...

I hope starting with the AD&D 2E rules isn’t too much for this thread. I’m “only” 45 so my gaming started with RC BECMI and 2E. I’ll also stick with house rules versus optional rules, which seem to be getting mixed up in this post as well. Biggies in my campaigns: Starting HP is your CON...

Should we tell them about MAC and MTHAC0?

First, the fiction this month is something else. I don’t know if it would even get published even a few years later in Dragon. Although in a lot of ways, the characters in the story are almost more modern than I think the author may have imagined. Granted, I have no idea how common LARPing and...

Yes, something is “off.” PSPs are “psionic skill points” which are the points that power psionic abilities. There is a cost to “cast” the power, and for some a cost to maintain a power per round afterwards. This is just subtraction. The number rolled against to see if the power is activated...

I suppose that the current “modern” round timing was introduced in 2E in Player’s Option: Combat & Tactics introduced Combat Rounds which were 10-15 seconds and stated to be 5 Combat Rounds per standard 1 minute standard Round and 50 per standard 10 minute Turn. It was, like many of the things...

You thought the PHB was a lot? I don’t think I ever ran a game without the PHB, Arms & Equipment Guide, and Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalog at a minimum. While I didn’t always use all the stuff in all the splats, the stuff for sale in any source was usually available for sale. Again, Core...

It sorta was, but in an odd location. The AD&D Core Rules 2.0 kitted out a created character based on their starting gold (which was used to purchase the items at PHB prices) and their class/weapon proficiencies. It wasn’t the best set of choices, but it worked pretty well. To the last point...

It was made during the early return of Jobs, but also during the PPC MAC era. The CD will load on a PPC Mac (I’ve got an old G5 PowerMac still working) and you can fiddle with the files, but the executable will not work.

My biggest problem with Core Rules 2.0 is that it wasn't continued with support. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the program as it is, it's just that WotC has zero interest in providing updates to it. At this point, there isn't really any reason why pretty much all of AD&D (1 & 2E)...

You have a system hang that has to be undone. It's a bit of a PITA, but basically, you have to open Task Manager and find the 32-bit program that is hanging up the installation. You have to go to the Details tab, find the installer program, right click, "Analyze Wait Chain," find the offending...