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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 7612353" data-attributes="member: 6788732">I still love 2e, though I can only really get to play it via the old PC games. There are a few things that I wouldn't want to go back to, I don't want my wizards to have to start throwing darts after casting their one spell so I'd have to have something like 5e cantrips. Even back when 2e was the current edition, I had house rules that pretty much ignored level limits, I always though it was weird that an elf, that is meant to be this magical race, was limited to 15th level as a wizard. Things like Thac0 I'd probably keep, it isn't really that difficult learn but it is definitely less intuitive than the system from 3e onwards. With all of the various OSR games that I've read, and the various improvements from later editions, I think I'd probably end up modding 2e quite a bit rather than running it as is. Things I'd change are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The cleave ability for warriors from ACKS (make 1 bonus attack when reducing an enemy to 0 hit points with a maximum of your warrior level) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The spell repertoire from ACKS which is similar to the spell preparation in 5e. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">At-will cantrips. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An increase in hit dice by one step for wizards and rogues. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Remove thieves/thieving skills and make their skills available for all classes using the standard proficiency system (I might instead keep thieves but change their skills to proficiencies and give them all of them from 1st level. They can be improved with proficiencies on level up.) </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Multiclassing and dual-classing would be opened up to every race. </li> </ul>I'd be tempted to rejig the XP tables as well, I think bards should require more XP than a thief. The demihuman deities book had a much better XP chart for specialist priests for instance. Even druids would be changed over to this chart because their XP chart is seriously out of whack.</blockquote>

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