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Clearly your son is a man of taste and distinction! Bravo. You're raising him well!

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Depends on group composition. I have even given out reusable/refilling healing potions.

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Yes... and no. I did mention, earlier, that people also copied stuff from other games. 1991 saw V:tM drop. Point Buy got -really- sexy in the mid-90s as people came to understand how cool it was. (Just in time for the Player's Options!) People were doing homebrew and 3rd party versions of...

I did mean OD&D, yeah. Strategic Review. It's definitely true that the core, basic, AD&D rules didn't have a whole lot of leveling choices (other than the aforementioned decision points on multiclassing stuff). But the point I'm making is there isn't this big generational cultural shift where...

It -would- be funny if it was a long form prank... But Skills and Powers as a book wasn't a long form prank, even if the community often treated it that way! And that was unleashed in 1995, just 2 years before WotC bought D&D from TSR in order to make 3rd edition. You'll also see at least...

The Bard Prestige Class. They were literally the -origin- of the term Prestige Class. In AD&D 1e to be a bard you had to hit at -least- 5th level as a fighter, and swap to Rogue before 8th level (so you could be a Fighter 5/Thief 1, or a Fighter 7/Thief 1 but not a Fighter 8/Thief 1). Then you...

Unfortunately, I can't game design more hours into the day or days into the week in the real world. The only solutions I can offer have to be within the confines of the game itself. If a game falls apart because of DM-Player mismatch, no amount of game design will fix that, either. Nor is there...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/gestalt-the-half-elf-2e-and-you.181571/ Gestalting was a thing people did in 2e. Specifically for multiclassing and grabbing all the benefits from both classes. I remember back in the mid-late nineties doing a "Gestalt" game for Dark Sun where we had the option...

The intent was lateral progression, not vertical. Social and Exploration features were both, specifically, called out. And more was expounded on, later, with the specific system-integration suggestions.

Of note: The Gunslinger was built on the revamped rules for firearms listed in Martial Artistry. However, it will work just fine with the Adventurer's Guide firearms. The differences will be in overall power (AG guns tend to hit harder) and cost (AG guns tend toward more expensive). But I...

If we want games to go to 20, more often, then there needs to be 3 major changes: 1) Power grading for classes needs to be brought in-line. Quadratic power increase for spellcasters needs to be brought down which mostly means getting rid of some "Classic" spells that we all know are broken. 2)...

I can, largely, agree... but. Between July of 2000 and July of 2003 there were: 8 player-focused splatbooks (Savage Species was the last of them) 4 monster-focused splatbooks 2 Optional Rulesets (Epic Level and Vile Darkness) 2 Settings (Oriental Adventures, Forgotten Realms) 7 Forgotten...

I think the real difference for the "Character Creation Focus" of 3e and the explanation of all these 'generations' is very simple and has little to do with what videogames were doing: AD&D was a new version of D&D that tried to give you as much of everything D&D did as possible with the core...

You picked your race, class, kit, etc. And then you had specialty classes like Ninjas, Shaman, and Psions. Then there was Multiclassing and Dualclassing as separate concepts. Then there was 2e Gestalts and other rulesets. And don't forget that class kits tended to get stuff at various levels...

Yeah... Character generation focus is a 4th generation 2000s thing! Certainly not the focus of AD&D 2e's Complete series of: Book of Elves Book of Humanoids Fighter's Handbook Thief's Handbook Wizard's Handbook Psionics Handbook Priest's Handbook Book of Necromancers Bard's Handbook Paladin's...

Path of the Giants Barbarian + GWM + PAM + Sentinel. You become Large Size (increasing your weapon's damage to 2d10+Str on every attack IF you draw your weapon after you Rage (before that it's 'worn')) and when you throw weapons you deal rage damage. PAM + Sentinel gives you a 15ft reach since...