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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ed_Laprade" data-source="post: 5588134" data-attributes="member: 40172">After reading a good chunk of it I was rather forcefully reminded why most groups houseruled the early editions. (Shuddering at memories of losing half a dozen characters before having one 'stick' long enough to reach 2nd level!) On the other hand, he does suggest that you have that many on hand before starting, so its not like he doesn't know what he's doing.   <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> There were a few things that seemed rather odd. In the section on what characters could likely get a skill check on the suggestions seemed off for some of them. (A miller, whose job is to grind grain, might know something about the grain involved? Etc.) And the prices of some things also seemed off. A sap, basically a sock filled with sand, costs GOLD to buy?  And one thing really cheesed me off. He says that plate mail (which, BTW, there isn't any listing for in the armor section) is inflexible. Has he been living in a cave for the past 30 years? That nonsense has been so thouroughly disproved that one has to wonder...   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses    B-)" data-shortname="B-)" /></blockquote>