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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6778460" data-attributes="member: 6701872">This is exactly why I have the pet peeve that I do regarding folks bringing up how an old version of the game used to work; they "recollect" rather than actually check, and then they assume not only that their recollection is correct but that my statement that they are wrong about whatever they are talking about is me not remembering the correct thing and being wrong rather than me having checked and being correct.1E casters couldn't leave melee and cast a spell in the same round because the only ways that characters of any kind could leave melee were to "fall back" which could be done by itself or combined with parrying, and didn't stop your opponent from following right along unless someone else was in melee stopping them from doing so, or to "flee" which let you move farther away but gave your opponent a rear attack against you - at least, that's what page 104 of this 1st edition Player's Handbook indicates to me - I guess I could be wrong because 1st edition was surprisingly full of situations where one source said one thing, and another said something entirely unrelated and different, and I haven't checked every single page of both the PHB and DMG to see if contradictory information is present on the topic.</blockquote>