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  1. Voadam

    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I am not aware of any such explicit limitation. I can find the reverse on page 79 at the beginning of the attack charts "Armor class below 10 is not possible except through cursed items. Armor class above 2 is easily possible due to magical bonuses and dexterity bonuses. To determine a “to...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    I had forgotten those were a thing, another potential +5 of AC and save bonuses (just does not stack with armor and shields)
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    My understanding of 4e dragons was that individuals varied, but Chromatics were still evil and metallics generally were not, though they shifted to more unaligned instead of baseline good. Here is the text in the 4e MMI: Dragons are diverse creatures, appearing in at least twenty-five...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    It has varied hugely over time, edition, and setting. 1e had Lankhmar with spellcasting clerics as White Wizards, not connected to gods. 1e Dragonlance had normal clerics with setting flavor rarity, then in 1e Dragonlance Adventures the 1e specialty priests for each god with themed reduced...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    Eberron decouples dragon color from alignment. Golds and reds (in Eberron) are equally likely to be evil or good. In d20 Modern the different color dragons are there but they all have the same basic stat block by age category, whites are as big and powerful as reds. They just differ by breath...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    The top end bracers of defense that stack with rings of protection because they are not magical armor are the key part of that. Without the bracers the most you could get for the armor aspect from the 1e DMG would be leather +1 which means no ring or ring and nonmagical leather armor. Max...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Expert tops out at 14th level, it has disintegrate spells and such. 3e had a lot of variety in options. Eberron clerics being any alignment and gods being theoretical was pretty big there. 4e made it default core cleric with their investiture powering.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    Except for the part about 100% of 1e holy avengers being LG (whether intelligent or not) and only 25% of 2e holy avengers being intelligent with alignments. A 1e CG paladin from that Plethora of Paladins Dragon article has an alignment conflict with 100% of 1e holy avengers. A 2e CG paladin can...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Moldvay does not say their powers can be taken away. That was notably in contrast to what Gygax had done in the 1e DMG for AD&D. 1981 B/X does not have any BADD triggering demons or devils or that sort of stuff either. The reference in Moldvay Basic to gods is so slight that for years I had...
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    No, I quoted the same sections. 2e Intelligent holy avengers have alignment restrictions. CG paladins would have the conflicting alignment problems when wielding an intelligent LG avenger, though they would still activate the big paladin avenger powers. It does not say all holy avengers are LG...
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    D&D General The Player's Quantum Ogre: Warlock Pacts

    Basic clerics have varied. Here is from Moldvay Basic: "Clerics are humans who have dedicated themselves to the service of a god or goddess. They are trained in fighting and casting spells. As a cleric advances in level, he or she is granted the use of more and more spells. However, clerics do...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    They are the only monsters in the 1e MM with their Latin genus and species names spelled out. :) It also talks about them specifically as species entries.
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    D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome

    It is the other way around. In 1e it specifies that holy avengers are LG. In 2e it does not have the same alignment specification that 1e does it just specifies "in the hands of a paladin" for its special powers so a CG paladin is good to go. 2e DMG: "Sword, +5 Holy Avenger: In the hands of any...
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    Undead Origins

    Microlite2020 Basic Monster List 1.0 (339) Microlite20 Shadow: ? Skeleton Warrior: ? Wight: ? Zombie: ?
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    D&D General Who else was resistant to Eberron for awhile before falling for it?

    When Eberron came out I was glad it did but I was not into it and did not pick it up. My early 3e interests were the 3e Forgotten Realms Campagin Setting hardcover, 3.0 Ravenloft and Oathbound. A little bit of The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer to add to my 1e and 2e Greyhawk stuf, Twin Crowns from...
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    D&D General Why do we color-code Dragons?

    Plenty of options
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