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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 4541670" data-attributes="member: 66434">Some things to consider: Round by round initiative is a critical counterbalance for spellcasters. Turn based initiative is one of the major factors that overpowers spellcasters in combat. Its not hard to roll initiative each round if you don't insist on using individual initiative. Round by round group initiative combined with enforcing declaration of spellcasting is what helps higher level casters from becoming automatic battle winners.  Triple starting Hp would require a rebalance of all monsters Hp, and make the damage per attack for some monsters so weak that they should barely be worth XP. A modest HP kicker combined with max hp at level 1 should help with the 1 shot death syndrome of 1st level.  Be careful when adjusting spell durations. Some spells will become way overpowered with an "encounter" duration while others might become so weak as to become not worth casting.  With regard to race/class restrictions and stat requirements: Keep in mind that some race/class combinations are more powerful than others. As DM its your job to maintain campaign balance and these restrictions are some of the tools that make the job easier. If you don't have game balance issues then give it a try.  I would suggest that if its been a long while since playing 1E to try a mostly RAW game first then find out from there what you and your players want to change. Why go through the hassle of fixing something that may work fine for your group? Best of luck.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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