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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silverleaf" data-source="post: 2310546" data-attributes="member: 30790">Hey that's exactly one of my Basic/Expert D&D house rules! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I have 3 damage categories, by class:  1d8 for Fighter/Dwarf/Elf, 1d6 for Cleric/Thief, and 1d4 for Magic-user.  This also conveniently discards the "weapon restrictions" that some classes have.Incidentally, the default damage rules in Basic D&D (and OD&D for that matter) is 1d6 for everyone.  The damage-by-weapon was a completely optional rule.Another house rules is:  critical hit on natural 20, with automatic max damage (ie, 8, 6, or 4 points depending on your class).  That doesn't sound like a lot, but it's worth noting that old-school D&D characters have considerably less hit points than AD&D or 3e.</blockquote>