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<blockquote data-quote="Thorvald Kviksverd" data-source="post: 514671" data-attributes="member: 1495">Just a minor point, the Dex adjustment was used when figuring initiative for missile fire. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I actually think the implementation of weapon speeds in 1e was fairly elegant. Leaving aside spellcasting, they only came in to play when both combatants were using weapons and the initiative die rolls were tied--in which case the faster weapon would strike first, and would sometimes gain multiple attacks.This allowed speed to play a part, without it being overly important.I also think it is important to use the weapon versus armour type adjustments however; since many of the faster weapons also tend to be poorer at penetrating armour, this helps to balance out their advantages--as does the fact that they also tend to have lower damge potential.I do something a quite different in my Basic D&amp;D campaign (you can check it out at my website below), but I like the official version when playing AD&amp;D--this after trying many variants over the years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thorvald Kviksverd, post: 514671, member: 1495"] Just a minor point, the Dex adjustment [i]was[/i] used when figuring initiative for missile fire. ;) I actually think the implementation of weapon speeds in 1e was fairly elegant. Leaving aside spellcasting, they only came in to play when both combatants were using weapons and the initiative die rolls were tied--in which case the faster weapon would strike first, and would sometimes gain multiple attacks. This allowed speed to play a part, without it being overly important. I also think it is important to use the weapon versus armour type adjustments however; since many of the faster weapons also tend to be poorer at penetrating armour, this helps to balance out their advantages--as does the fact that they also tend to have lower damge potential. I do something a quite different in my Basic D&D campaign (you can check it out at my website below), but I like the official version when playing AD&D--this after trying many variants over the years. [/QUOTE]

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