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True20 Bestiary True20 Undead, Undead Creature: Undead are once-living creatures animated by spiritual or supernatural forces, such as the Imbue Unlife power. An undead creature was once living but has magically transcended death as a walking corpse or ghostly spirit. Unfortunately they...

I did get the (BECMI) Companion set to go along with my B/X Basic and Expert sets so the one that stood out for me is the thief skill advancement being reduced in BECMI to stretch it out over more levels instead of the expected new thief abilities that B/X Expert hinted would come for higher...

I was thinking of whether it carried forward in the later basic line books. From the RC it looks like it was just Mentzer Basic but I don't have the other later basic starter sets either to check, just the RC PDF.

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Thanks, Moldvay B/X Basic was what I started D&D with and I only got a Mentzer basic boxed set decades later when a friend was downsizing their collection prior to a move, so I am not familiar with its specific unique bits other than the little bits I have flipped through or looked up...

Chronicle Solipstry Beithir: ? Chatterjaws, Chatterbones: Most often, they wait months or years before returning, but I’ve heard cases where they didn’t last the night. While anyone can become a Chatterbones, it seems that murder victims come back most often. Ghost, Spirit: Bodies fade quickly...

Do you have a page number? I just looked in my copy of the boxed set and did not see that.

Solipstry Solipstry Undead: ? Ghost: In addition to certain Abilities, your GM may offer ways for a character to be brought back to life, such as divine intervention, or a return as a ghost. Vampire: ? Chad Dreshmire, Vampire: ?

SagaBorn Creature Compendium SagaBorn Undead, Undead Monster, Undead Creature: Undead are creatures who were once dead, but have been re-animated through supernatural or magical means — they are neither dead nor living. A character with negative levels at least equal to their current level, or...

I had the PH preordered on Amazon. I was a couple years out of law school and very excited by the OGL and the then draft SRD. My gaming then was occasional cross country get togethers for gaming weekends or batchelor party gaming with my long time friends/gaming group. When my brother got the...

The Complete Fighter warrior only optional rule makes the most hardy PCs even hardier and be significantly tougher than everyone else, most everyone else (even multiclass fighter clerics) can be pretty much one shotted at first level, and most are still at significant risk of it at second level...

2e Dark Sun did have characters start at 3rd level so that helped a bunch with the low starting hp issue in a different way.

In reading a little bit from PHBR1 The Complete Fighter's Handbook I came across this passage on page 4: When you're creating single class warrior characters, we recommend that you start all first-level warriors with the maximum number of hit points they can have at that level—don't even bother...

The two revisions in weapon specialization are in PHBR1 The Complete Fighter's Handbook page 58: "Only single-class warriors (fighters, paladins, and rangers) can take weapon specialties. Such a character can only take one when he is first created, but may specialize in more weapons as he gains...

2e specialization actually made picking up random new magic weapons more feasible for fighters than 1e did. In 2e you could specialize in more than one weapon, new weapons just had to be mastered after first level. So while an Unearthed Arcana fighter was double specialized in their one weapon...

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1e darts are clearly for double specialized fighter NPCs. Four attacks a round at +3/+3 damage. And as hurled weapons you could get weighted ones for strength bonus. And it is designed for NPCs because PC fighters need a magic weapon ASAP for all the monsters that require magic to hit. I only...

Potentially available, you could have friends as your random 1st level offensive spell instead. :) Thieves and MUs are actually one behind the fighters and clerics at level 1 in 1e, Fighters and clerics need a 19 to hit AC1 while thieves and MUs still need a 20. In Moldvay Basic everybody is...

They are two different weapons so to use both types yes, two different proficiencies. Just like dagger and knife once you get the expanded list in UA. However if you only had one proficiency that was the main use of this weapon's magical properties! Whichever one you are proficient/specialized...

With eleven classes in the PH and multiple races with various multiclass and level limits to pick from I felt 1e pre-UA had a bunch of impactful character build choices as it was even with random stat rolling and magic items and even just roleplaying and tactics being such big factors...