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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9364669" data-attributes="member: 8461">One obscure rule that I liked in AD&D 2E (which was never obscure to me, but which a lot of people seem to have missed) is that for all the talk about how the gods were beyond stats in that edition, they actually weren't.I mean, looking through Legends & Lore 2E, it very clearly gives stats for what the gods can do; they're just not complete stats. We know how many actions they get, what their saving throw values are, how much magic resistance they have, etc. It's just that they have no hit point listings, AC listings, and certain other salient stats. Heck, we're even told how long a god that's defeated by a mortal is discorporated for (1d100 days), after which they reform at full health.Fun fact: the Forgotten Realms excellent Faith & Avatars did some stealth updates in this regard, adding things like requiring weapons of a certain "plus" value to hit gods of various divine strata, that they were immune to certain spell schools, etc.And of course, let's not forget all of those times we got full-on stat blocks for various gods in 2E, even if most of them were demigods. Vecna and Iuz were in Die Vecna Die!, for instance, and Hercules had full stats right there in Legends & Lore itself.</blockquote>