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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7640635" data-attributes="member: 996">Not to hear folks going on about the saminess of powers, there wasn't. And what's the system for the DM creating or approving a new spell when there are hill-o-gp formulae for spell research? "Compare to existing spells.." DMG 116 (and 115, actually) its even a bit meaner than I remembered.  Lol.That's about the size of it, huh?  1e doesn't ever really have to stand up on its own, it's 1e fixed up how we like it. Probably not 2e hasn't stuck with me like 1e.  Anything that seems like a memorable (good) rule or bit of DMing advice I recall from 1e, though could as easily be from Sorcerers Scroll or Leomunds Tiny Hut - Gygax writing in the same style as the DMG, or Lakofka with another variant.The encounter guidelines devalued minions at higher level - so a regular encounter budget at epic could see the party outnumbered 6:1 by them.Minions were pretty likely to hit, compared to underleveled standards of the same xp value, so they could add up to a real threat, that xp value for them wasn't window dressing.5e, OTOH, makes being outnumbered a real issue, thanks to BA, the opposite problem as the olden days, potentially - 100 archers killing a dragon &c...</blockquote>