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wonderful work! Thanks so much!

sometimes, yes. A couple I change the baseline for/permanently, one being the black dragon you mention. 1e MM " They tend towards the mid point between law and chaos in their evil." I make them out as being Neutral Evil

ok, the assassin article is ok, for what it is, but naw, I came up with as much or better w/o it. The specific guild rules/example are not at all my cup of tea/a bit silly

I do not think I'd call it a substantial issue, as it lacks a stand out article. It was fine at the time, but it's not one I visit anymore. The weapons, & powerful angelic monsters do deserve note, and the bits on Greyhawk/Raxivort are of solid historical note though. I've run assassin/guild...

Conan the Barbarian is a flat out awesome movie too, was then & is now.

"A shifty character for your campaign" by Tom Armstrong and Roger Moore introduces the Bandit NPC class. The result is like a fighter/thief with a few of the ranger's outdoor skills thrown in. However, it's not very interesting compared to some of the NPC classes in previous issues." many...

the index for dragon magazine is very handy http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/ specifically on classes http://www.aeolia.net/dragondex/articles-subject.html#c click, C, scroll to Character classes (D&D)

Indeed, we could, and many old school games did. It was common to joke about silly D&D and strength helping one land a hit (& the argument is always "armor, toughness, etc is overcome). Even other old TSR games would use "dexterity" for modifying chances to hit in melee combat, and not just...

They don't, no, but the circumstances of taking damage & dishing out damage are a bit different & by no means automatic. one certainly might need their BBG to say, dispel, cast a protection or movement effect, or heck, even a non damaging attack. You won't get either effect some rounds

option 2 it's got some issues, sure, especially compared to masochism, (why is everything italics now?) but (finally) unless you are in 3.5e it's probably fine. Otherwise place some caps (+10 for 100+ seems good) & make sure any item of it has some evil tags/issues Used by a high level big bad...