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Honestly, "Also deconstruction of _______ genre is nothing new today" might be a universal statement at this point. There's so much content now, that by the time a genre has the chance to be fully formed, there's already satirizations of it and deconstructions of it already in the mix.

Although the stereotypes of high-level 3e play* are generally the logical extreme and didn't see much actual play, it is still very much glass cannon territory, kinda returning to the high-lethality play of 1st-level. You can do amazing things, but so can whomever you are up against, and a lot...

To clarify my point: There isn't technically anything called 0D&D, (or oD&D/OD&D). Those are fan-made terms. However, the generally agreed to convention is that they cover the original Dungeons and Dragons ruleset released in 1974 (including subsequent print runs through 1978), and the...

Okay. I was interpreting "Basically, unless surprised, the specialist bow armed fighter likely will alpha strike any mage off the field" as dropping the mage, not disrupting their first-round spell. If that's not how you meant it, than I was answering a different question.

I think you might confuse people with your distinct nomenclature. By convention, OD&D is used to refer to the original 1974 game, plus the supplements and products produced for them. As such, the only boxed set is the original 'Little Brown Books' (LBBs), which does not have thieves (that class...

If you read the Norse myths, a lot of them sound like D&D adventurers. Oden and Loki or Thor wandering around and getting into mortal peril like running into giants that could potentially defeat (and kill?) them, but then always persevering in the end (well, minus the very end). I seem to recall...

Starting with the class that grants heavy armor also works.

Good thought. If we're actually looking to assign blame, I think the pertinent bits would be: Director seems to be the role with overall responsibility over a movie. If a scene was bad and should have had a second take or re-shoot, the cinematographer or director-on-set would be the one...

Found it. I wasn't clear, I had the pdf open and wasn't finding it. But I've got it now -- It's actually in 2E Players Options: High Level Campaigns. Starting p. 101 there's about 20 pages of mage dueling rules. Still no spell called counterspell, and it certainly doesn't beat Chainmail for...

The first page of the thread covers it nicely. To sum up and fill in some gaps: The ability to counter a spells goes back to Chainmail, with it an innate quality of wizard figures. oD&D refers to 'countering' of spells in terms of negated the effect -- light and darkness spells negating each...

There has been some slowdown while people re-establish their muscle memory with the new rules, but overall it looks on track to play very similarly to 2014. Power/balance-wise, there are new winners and losers, but the max minus the min does not outscale the max minus min of the previous version...

Regarding the OP -- On a basic level, most of what Easton says about broad/back/arming swords over rapiers holds true. It is an interesting, thoughtful analysis. However, as counterpoint, most of the negative things this video states about rapiers can also be assigned to spears. There are pros...

3e and onward. Note that, even though AD&D did have crossbows scale up with fighter level (but stay behind bows), a crossbow was still a weapon you would never use if you were class-allowed to use a bow. That was just part and parcel for AD&D where there was clear and obvious winners on the...

This is one of the consequences of the simplification of the game. Earlier versions (at least AD&D) had a systematic rate of fire for both weapons that went up as you levelled, but consistently kept the crossbow behind the longbow for the same character class at any given level. At the same...

I noticed that this text mentions the damage bonus, but not the to-hit (making them silent on the issue). So I dug a little deeper. I think this is a place where the rule is spread across multiple sections. The rules in the Attribute section under strength read: "Hit Probability adjustments...

Depends on the mage. You shoot first (before they can take cover or get into a melee scrum where you roll to see who you hit), but you only get one shot. See DMG: "Whatever the ROF, multiple missile shots are handled the same way as other multiple attacks for the purposes of determining...

Thanks. I think I double-added the +1/2. I don't know that the extra +2/+1 for double specialization really sells me on it being much more benefit. It seems like the minor nickel and dime bonuses most of the Complete Fighter fighting styles granted. Extra attacks (however they are acquired)...

We got the books (used them for the reference above), but by then had shifted back to our BX/BECMI hybrid (when we played A/D&D at all in the mid-late 90s). I think of them sort of like 3.5E's Book of Nine Swords -- they actually addressed things (martial weakness with Bo9S, character...

Whoops. A little distracted today. Yes, I suspect that is what is being referenced. PO:C&T uses the Non-Proficient, Familiar, Proficient, Expert, Specialized, and Master terminology mentioned above for levels of proficiency for more than just martial arts.

Complete Fighter's Martial arts was the one where each roll on d20 did a different 'move' with different base damage (ranging from 0 to 3), with each level of martial arts specialization allowing you to shift the effect up or down one, along with +1 hit/+1 dmg, and an extra attack (just one...