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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plaguescarred" data-source="post: 9066205" data-attributes="member: 6701422">My experience with AD&D 1E-2E is also that its they're most lethal as you died at 0 hit point. We ended up using various form of houserules to correct that, and in 2E using optional rule At Death's Door for the same reasons. Eventually, the following editions also eventually addressed those aspect of the game in 3.X, 4E and 5E core rules.Other than dying by hit points loss, AD&D 1-2E is also more lethal than 5E because it has a lot more save-or die effects. Such fate resting on a single die roll are very rare in 5E  and since the new millenium all the spells, monsters, traps, poisons and diseases etc rarely have the capacity to kill a character with a single successful attack roll or failed saving throw.There is things worse than dying in AD&D 1-2E, level drain is so hurting when a single die roll could make you loose one or two hard-acquired levels of adventuring hit by some monster every round...</blockquote>