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Huh, add that to the pile of AD&D rules I've completely missed and will continue to ignore...P. 19.
Club, dagger, dart, sling, sword (short, broad, long only).
Huh, add that to the pile of AD&D rules I've completely missed and will continue to ignore...P. 19.
Club, dagger, dart, sling, sword (short, broad, long only).
The big addition of the Unearthed Arcana revision to that list, the 2 shots per round short bow.Huh, add that to the pile of AD&D rules I've completely missed and will continue to ignore...
Wait, a short bow can fire twice a round!The big addition of the Unearthed Arcana revision to that list, the 2 shots per round short bow.
1e PH p. 31:Wait, a short bow can fire twice a round!
I've read all my AD&D books over COVID cover to cover and somehow still missed all these rules, haha.
I didn’t miss that one yesterday, thankfully
Wow, that is something else. Hats off to those that actually use AC Adjustments in their games.
Official Basic D&D did not use rate of fire or AC adjustments, and a lot of OSR is based off of B/X.Wow, that is something else. Hats off to those that actually use AC Adjustments in their games.
Now to go through all my AD&D OSR games and see how each one does things differently...
Yeah. No one actually played using all those rules. Not even Gygax. Most looked to some version of Basic to fill in the blanks or make sense of AD&D. The list of ignored rules is longer than the list of used rules.Finished the PHB. It’s definitely anemic compared to later versions. Also, people were not kidding about the organization issues.
Started the DMG the other day. Now I’m wondering just what the heck is going on, and how the heck anyone could learn all these scattered rules, much less utilize them in a game that didn’t take hours for a single combat. I may need to reflect a bit on what I’ve already read, and let it soak in.
Makes me wonder if it’s less a total-package game, and more of a toolset for making your own game. I mean, he *was * a hobbyist gamer.Yeah. No one actually played using all those rules. Not even Gygax. Most looked to some version of Basic to fill in the blanks of make sense of AD&D. The list of ignored rules is longer than the list of used rules.