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<blockquote data-quote="cavalier973" data-source="post: 9676729" data-attributes="member: 91595">I think that adventuring parties were expected to explore carefully, and avoid combat, if at all possible.Not all monsters that were encountered were automatically hostile, so it was possible to talk your way out of a dangerous situation, or bargain for passage, etc.Even if combat ensued, the morale system could mean that the monsters run away after one of them gets killed.Except for undead monsters. Undead monsters were mindless and relentless. The cleric made encounters with the undead survivable.I don’t know the initial reasoning for making clerics achieve 2nd level before being able to cast spells. There was a “narrative” reason (the cleric had to prove faithfulness through level 1), but for the mechanical reason, I expect that it had something to do with game balance.Addendum: for an example of how awesome “Basic D&amp;D” clerics could be, I recommend 3d6, Down the Line’s youtube play cast. They have several, but their current game is the megadungeon, “The Halls of Arden Vul”. They just posted episode 111 of this delve.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cavalier973, post: 9676729, member: 91595"] I think that adventuring parties were expected to explore carefully, and avoid combat, if at all possible. Not all monsters that were encountered were automatically hostile, so it was possible to talk your way out of a dangerous situation, or bargain for passage, etc. Even if combat ensued, the morale system could mean that the monsters run away after one of them gets killed. Except for undead monsters. Undead monsters were mindless and relentless. The cleric made encounters with the undead survivable. I don’t know the initial reasoning for making clerics achieve 2nd level before being able to cast spells. There was a “narrative” reason (the cleric had to prove faithfulness through level 1), but for the mechanical reason, I expect that it had something to do with game balance. Addendum: for an example of how awesome “Basic D&D” clerics could be, I recommend 3d6, Down the Line’s youtube play cast. They have several, but their current game is the megadungeon, “The Halls of Arden Vul”. They just posted episode 111 of this delve. [/QUOTE]

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