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<blockquote data-quote="Enevhar Aldarion" data-source="post: 7625734" data-attributes="member: 6818233">Side note, I do not get the hate for Unearthed Arcana, as that book made 1st Ed AD&amp;D so much better. I discovered the game in 82-83, and had very little time with a real gaming group before UA was published, but every group I played 1E with used UA as a standard book to choose options from.As for the actual questions, even back then, the groups I gamed with used the &quot;specific overrules general&quot; concept when it came to rules and restrictions. So as long as nothing newer contradicted the core rules, the core rules were applied. If something for a setting was published that allowed an edged weapon to a specific type of cleric, that they got to use it in that particular combination. I won't even go into the specifics of homebrew worlds, since that is not what this question is about.Instead of the oil question, you could use the multi-class question. Can a multi-classed fighter/cleric use a sword? But it has been so long since I have even looked at 1E that this might be a non-question and was allowed by the rules or if this was interpreted differently by different groups. I just don't remember for sure any more.&nbsp;&nbsp; lolEdit: by the way, why did this end up in the General Discussion forum and not in the D&amp;D forum?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Enevhar Aldarion, post: 7625734, member: 6818233"] Side note, I do not get the hate for Unearthed Arcana, as that book made 1st Ed AD&D so much better. I discovered the game in 82-83, and had very little time with a real gaming group before UA was published, but every group I played 1E with used UA as a standard book to choose options from. As for the actual questions, even back then, the groups I gamed with used the "specific overrules general" concept when it came to rules and restrictions. So as long as nothing newer contradicted the core rules, the core rules were applied. If something for a setting was published that allowed an edged weapon to a specific type of cleric, that they got to use it in that particular combination. I won't even go into the specifics of homebrew worlds, since that is not what this question is about. Instead of the oil question, you could use the multi-class question. Can a multi-classed fighter/cleric use a sword? But it has been so long since I have even looked at 1E that this might be a non-question and was allowed by the rules or if this was interpreted differently by different groups. I just don't remember for sure any more. lol Edit: by the way, why did this end up in the General Discussion forum and not in the D&D forum? [/QUOTE]

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