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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8959436" data-attributes="member: 82106">But more importantly, you played with SKILL! The overall victory in this scenario was far from assured, but the players had acquired resources, and made a plan, and had fallbacks, or at least thought on their feet. Now, lets compare that to some trad D&amp;D fight, 99% of those fights the party wins. I mean, if you played 1e AD&amp;D, where you probably need to win 5 or more fights to get a level, you better win 99% or the chances of ever getting a character to name level are zilch! Now, maybe there are extra tough fights, and if you are a bad player you will run into more of them, whatever.I can assure Bloodtide that I've played 1000s of hours of AD&amp;D and other flavors of classic D&amp;D. I know absolutely every classic trick in the book, bar none. Bring it on! It isn't going to be ANY tougher than figuring out how to engineer the rise of the Wandering Souls crew of assassins to a position of power in Doskvol and enacting their final plans! Yeah, making 9th level in AD&amp;D 1e can be fairly tough, but no tougher than BitD overall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8959436, member: 82106"] But more importantly, you played with SKILL! The overall victory in this scenario was far from assured, but the players had acquired resources, and made a plan, and had fallbacks, or at least thought on their feet. Now, lets compare that to some trad D&D fight, 99% of those fights the party wins. I mean, if you played 1e AD&D, where you probably need to win 5 or more fights to get a level, you better win 99% or the chances of ever getting a character to name level are zilch! Now, maybe there are extra tough fights, and if you are a bad player you will run into more of them, whatever. I can assure Bloodtide that I've played 1000s of hours of AD&D and other flavors of classic D&D. I know absolutely every classic trick in the book, bar none. Bring it on! It isn't going to be ANY tougher than figuring out how to engineer the rise of the Wandering Souls crew of assassins to a position of power in Doskvol and enacting their final plans! Yeah, making 9th level in AD&D 1e can be fairly tough, but no tougher than BitD overall. [/QUOTE]

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