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Fighters were very powerful in AD&D at levels that mattered. Espicially with official material used. 2E had the most powerful fighter ever depending on dpkat books but even fighters handbook or core was very good.

Ours got away from us. Paid a guy to do it. Cost a few thousand in potato NZ dollars. Pla is to stay on top of it and pay someone for trees and heavy lifting (injuries I'm not doing it). Think we are gonna weed mat everything, ignore the flowers and put in shrubs and NZ natives. I've...

And if that first round shuts down most/all of them? Eg hold person, slow, Hypnotic pattern? Twinned hold person upcast 75%+ success rate. Won't kill them but effects tempo.

Its an rpg but die to combat length it resulted in less everything else per session. 2 or 3 combats coukd consime the majority of a session. My primary campaign last session 2 combats lasted just over an hour. The other 2.5-3 were exploration and RP. In effect its meant you would also level...

Yeah I read the advanced options for Basic fantasy. Bought a hardcopy $5 one of the last free postage Amazon deals. It was almost weird playing 2E and Basic clones in 2012 after 4E. Games fast, flows well fun again.

In various class tier rankings that come up in don't see much attention paid to initiative manipulation. In all editions winning initiative is important. Death is still the best debuff. 5.5 monsters however have a few to many hit points and hit a bit to hard imho to reliably race them for...

Derp dex save. Aware ive seen Conure Animals whiff a bit. Clerics usually have decent AC snd a few pick up shield spell these days. Warcasters basically a no brainer.

Hence I treat it as +4 bonus roughly.

I suspect a lot of people played 1E like advanced B/X. More races, spells, classes ignore the rest. 2E was explicitly toolbox. Best old school is 1.5 pmayeyed like B/X imho. Interesting to see OSE going in that direction essentially becoming AD&D 3E.

People hear what they want to hear. 5.0 had a lot of optional rules like 2E. Play how you want. Things like archetypes have their spiritual origins in 2E. 4E and 4.5 were very specific in what they did. 3.0 a little bit less. After 14+years (in 2014) a lot didnt play 2E, remember it or...

Yeah I treat it as +4 to hit. +4 is still better as it stacks with advantage. Theres accuracy builds that get accuracy up to 90-95 % with elven accuracy on top of that and dice manipulation is more common. People who take DPR as gospel types are funny as they can't comprehend their white...

Vex grants advantage to hit on follow up attacks. Knocking prone grants advantage on melee attacks with 5'. Advantage is easier to get in 5.5. I've seen a sword and trident type shield master feat plus topple. Prone prone prone, action surge prone. Champion crits 19-20 with...

5.0 the NM had an average AC of 14.5. DPR calculations generally use a 65% assumption. I ro not i use average damage potential. Eg 2d6+4 is 13. To many variables in an actual game. Theyre somewhat useful s a guideline for strikers if you want to know who does the most damage. Or...

I fid see tge persistent spell cleric in action. Its a similar situation to CME in 5.5. If you have to hard cast it in combat its not as good as precast. Persistent spell cleric was lvl 9 3.0. And 12+ 3.5 to be espicially good and required a lot of splat. Saw it i. 3.0, 3.5 required more...

Its not as overpowering as 3E and you want some martials around. Pre 3E clerics weren't that great. Its more interesting spellcaster balance. See previous comments about fireball, wizards etc. No one really does enough damage solo in 5.5 relative to hp. Best gish builds are clerics...

Con save 0 damage vs wisdom save half damage.

Gyfax didn't write B/X. Thats why its better.

1. We weren't to serious about it. 2. Basic line doesn't really offend anybody. 3. "Its to basic" well thats kind of the point. Also if you read old D&D stuff its aged better and has a very good hit ratio in the modules in terms of quality. And everyone hates Bargle. Bastard!!!!

1E isnt that good tbh;).

If youre in a smaller room you're already getting everything anyway.