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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad4life" data-source="post: 4005801" data-attributes="member: 28645">D20 Microlite became our new &quot;official&quot; default D&amp;D game over the holidays.&nbsp; At first everyone seemed to think of the game as a &quot;cute&quot; novelty item worth playing once or twice to re-live 1E nostalgia.&nbsp; However, once things got rolling, we couldn't make ourselves stop!&nbsp; We made gagillians of characters just for the heck of it, and played through every adventure available for download from the M20 site.&nbsp; We also ran a few published 3.X adventures with little trouble.&nbsp; Two of the players said that they did miss some of the tactical options available to them in other versions of D&amp;D, but the rest of us thought that the game ran much better and faster without them.&nbsp; One of my favorite things about M20 was one of my favorite things about 1E- making houserules to fill in the gaps.&nbsp; Here are a few of our rulings that we actually kept for more than one session:-Any character can equip any weapon or armor.&nbsp; However, non-fighters cannot use their class abilities while wearing armor incompatible with their class.&nbsp; In some situations, this is worth it.&nbsp; In others, it isn't.&nbsp; -Rogues can make &quot;reflex&quot; saves to negate all damage, rather than half.&nbsp; (This makes the class a little more attractive.)-Attacking an adjacent foe with a ranged weapon incurs a -4 penalty.-There are no DR, SR, or &quot;can only be struck by X&quot; defenses.&nbsp; These slow the game down, and are already abstractly represented by hit points anyway.-To keep things simple, monsters can have ONE special ability (a troll regenerates, a dragon has a breath attack, a medusa has stonegaze, etc…)&nbsp; Having a special ability adds 1 to the creature's HD for the purposes of determining experience points or treasure.-Only player characters get extra bonus attacks for high attack scores.&nbsp; Monsters &amp; NPCs make one attack per round, to speed things up.There were many others, but they got discarded between (or during) games.&nbsp; Anyway, thanks for sharing Microlite and setting up a homepage.&nbsp; D&amp;D would still be a fond dusty memory for us if you hadn't!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nomad4life, post: 4005801, member: 28645"] D20 Microlite became our new "official" default D&D game over the holidays. At first everyone seemed to think of the game as a "cute" novelty item worth playing once or twice to re-live 1E nostalgia. However, once things got rolling, we couldn't make ourselves stop! We made gagillians of characters just for the heck of it, and played through every adventure available for download from the M20 site. We also ran a few published 3.X adventures with little trouble. Two of the players said that they did miss some of the tactical options available to them in other versions of D&D, but the rest of us thought that the game ran much better and faster without them. One of my favorite things about M20 was one of my favorite things about 1E- making houserules to fill in the gaps. Here are a few of our rulings that we actually kept for more than one session: -Any character can equip any weapon or armor. However, non-fighters cannot use their class abilities while wearing armor incompatible with their class. In some situations, this is worth it. In others, it isn't. -Rogues can make "reflex" saves to negate all damage, rather than half. (This makes the class a little more attractive.) -Attacking an adjacent foe with a ranged weapon incurs a -4 penalty. -There are no DR, SR, or "can only be struck by X" defenses. These slow the game down, and are already abstractly represented by hit points anyway. -To keep things simple, monsters can have ONE special ability (a troll regenerates, a dragon has a breath attack, a medusa has stonegaze, etc…) Having a special ability adds 1 to the creature's HD for the purposes of determining experience points or treasure. -Only player characters get extra bonus attacks for high attack scores. Monsters & NPCs make one attack per round, to speed things up. There were many others, but they got discarded between (or during) games. Anyway, thanks for sharing Microlite and setting up a homepage. D&D would still be a fond dusty memory for us if you hadn't! [/QUOTE]

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