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<blockquote data-quote="T. Foster" data-source="post: 3010961" data-attributes="member: 16574">There are numerous small differences between the rules in the OSRIC document and the rules in the 1E books (I know, because a big part of my &quot;editing&quot; job was highlighting such differences). Most of them are so minor that someone who wasn't an obsessive about the 1E rules probably wouldn't notice them. A few of them are more immediately obvious (such as the different XP charts, or the fact that in OSRIC &quot;18/00&quot; strength = 19, which isn't so in AD&amp;D, or the fact that there are no psionics rules or monk class in the OSRIC document). All of these differences are there for legal reasons; none of them are there by mistake or out of a desire to &quot;improve&quot; or &quot;fix&quot; the 1E system in any way. Yes, this means that you can't use the OSRIC document alone to run a &quot;100% BtB&quot; 1E AD&amp;D game (though few people actually run such games, and you probably could use the OSRIC document to run the sort of &quot;90% BtB&quot; game that most people who play 1E AD&amp;D actually run), but since this wasn't the intent of the OSRIC document it doesn't bother me. If OSRIC were positioned as a &quot;replacement&quot; for 1E AD&amp;D -- use this book and throw your old ones away! -- I'd personally find it an unacceptable substitute, but as a publisher's tool, it works fine and does exactly what it's supposed to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="T. Foster, post: 3010961, member: 16574"] There are numerous small differences between the rules in the OSRIC document and the rules in the 1E books (I know, because a big part of my "editing" job was highlighting such differences). Most of them are so minor that someone who wasn't an obsessive about the 1E rules probably wouldn't notice them. A few of them are more immediately obvious (such as the different XP charts, or the fact that in OSRIC "18/00" strength = 19, which isn't so in AD&D, or the fact that there are no psionics rules or monk class in the OSRIC document). [b]All[/b] of these differences are there for legal reasons; none of them are there by mistake or out of a desire to "improve" or "fix" the 1E system in any way. Yes, this means that you can't use the OSRIC document alone to run a "100% BtB" 1E AD&D game (though few people actually run such games, and you probably [i]could[/i] use the OSRIC document to run the sort of "90% BtB" game that most people who play 1E AD&D actually run), but since this wasn't the intent of the OSRIC document it doesn't bother me. If OSRIC were positioned as a "replacement" for 1E AD&D -- use this book and throw your old ones away! -- I'd personally find it an unacceptable substitute, but as a publisher's tool, it works fine and does exactly what it's supposed to. [/QUOTE]

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