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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anth" data-source="post: 6464004" data-attributes="member: 9636">You know?Then let me propose some house rules to your 5E-game:[hr][/hr]1. Everyone start at level 1. Even when they die, they start over at level 1 with zero xp.2. Change the xp-level goals for the first levels, instead of:Level 1: 0 xpLevel 2: 300 xpLevel 3: 900 xpLevel 4: 2700 xpLevel 5: 6500 xpLevel 6: 14000 xpChange to:Level 1: 0 xpLevel 2: 750 xpLevel 3: 1500 xpLevel 4: 3000 xpLevel 5: 7000 xpLevel 6: 14000 xp3. Lower the HD for everyone:Fighters get d8 hpclerics and Rogues get d6 hpWizards get d4 hp4. Skip the rule of max hp at level 1, You roll hp for every level, and if you roll 1 at level 1 you start with 1 hp.5. Get rid of the death saves. When you're at zero hp you're dead.6. Roll abilities with 3d6, in order, No changes alowed.[hr][/hr]Most of todays players wouldn't like these house rules.Why?Because most of todays players would die, die, die if they used them. And they would never level up.But these was the standard rules 40 years ago.And people actually played with these rules.I did.And people actually leveled up without dying.How come?Because people tried to avoid fights as much as possible.This doesn't mean that we didn't fight. There was lots of fights. But we tried to choose our fights: pick the easy ones, and run away from the tough ones, That was how we survived.This doesn't mean that the fights was boring, but that the fun part was that you risked your characters life all the time, not in fancy combat maneuvers as it is today.My guess is that combat took about 20 % of the time, and yes I also played classical modules like "Against the Giants". But if you ask me what I remember from that time I would answer the combat. So it felt like there was combat 80 % of the time, but it was combat only 20 % of the time.</blockquote>

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