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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9487285" data-attributes="member: 7026594">It is not labeled as such.From Gary's preface to the PH:And from his introduction to the DMG:AD&D 1E had very few significant optional rules.  In contrast to 2E, which had a lot of them.I think the PH just has Bards and Psionics as optional.The DMG has an optional suggestion on page 25 that you can give players extra starting items if it's a difficult campaign, but that's not really a rule. The optional rules in the DMG are mostly tiny little tweaks, rather than major systems, as Gary alludes.There's an optional rule for large shields giving +2 against missiles (p 28), optional parameters for Cure Blindness (p 41), +3 or greater weapons and armor may optionally function on other planes (Astral Spell, p 42), optional restriction on the Enlarge spell (p 44), one for shorter scatter distance for grenade-like missiles at short range (p 64), an optional rule for mixed groups of undead and Turning (p 65), the Special Note Regarding Fighters' Progression to smooth their attack advancement (p 74), an optional rule allowing unconsciousness at between -1 and -3 HP instead of the official rule for unconsciousness only at exactly 0 HP (p 82), Fighters being optionally allowed to take weapon proficiency with siege engines (p 109), optional double rate of fire rule for Boot Hill firearms and optional save vs dynamite explosions but increased base damage for it ( p 113), optional charge limit for certain powerful magic rings (p 122 & 129), an optional rule that 1% of wands may be trapped to backfire (p 135), the Mirror of Mental Prowess may optionally allow planar travel (p 150), deities who create or control an artifact may be able to reverse the effects of some artifact powers (p 156), scimitars may optionally use a table for properties instead of just defaulting to a single +2 option (p 169), cursed backbiter spears may appear as +2 or +3 instead of just +1 (p 169 as well), random lower planes creatures may optionally have poisoned tails or mouths (p 195).As for more major systems, the DMG offers four different alternatives for ability score generation, but they aren't presented as one official way and three optional variants, but as all being official and recommended.</blockquote>

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