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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9621149" data-attributes="member: 29398">It's not that hard to approach this from the other direction: start with the base* 1e chassis then strip out the complicated bits (e.g. weapon vs armour type and weapon speed), re-do initiative into something much simpler, pick one multiclassing system and have it apply to everyone, and make a few other minor tweaks e.g. removing gender-based stat modifiers and relaxing or eliminating demihuman level and-or class limits.* - as in, pre-UA; be vee-ee-ee-ry careful when considering what (if anything) to add in from supplements released 1985 or later.Specialty priests are one of those things that sound really good on paper but for a homebrew setting and-or pantheon represent a stupendous amount of work for the DM in order to a) implement in the first place and b) get right.  My DM has gone down this road a bit by adding in a bunch of Cleric sub-types and then re-doing the spell lists for each, leading to a lot of "Whaddya mean my Cleric doesn't have [spell-X] that every Cleric has had from the dawn of time?!"Kits and NWPs etc. start pushing the character-build side of the game farther forward than I'd want.</blockquote>