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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9175396" data-attributes="member: 7030563">To start with the +30 reaction adjustment is huge in play.&nbsp; With +30 you were gauranteed that people you met would not be hostile! GARAUNTEED as the maximum to be hostile was 25% and with a 1 on a d100 roll you got a 31.&nbsp; Further one in three Paladins had an 18 and not a 17 which meant +35.&nbsp; In play nearly half of creatures you encountered would be &quot;enthusiastically friendly&quot; towards a Paladin.&nbsp; In the 1E combat system avoiding combat, or even acting first was a big, big deal.Second there are two sets of Paladin mimimums.&nbsp; Those you cite are the early minimums, the late minimums once they became a subclass of Cavalier were: S 15, I 9, W 13, D15, C 15, Cha 17Third, where your high and low rolls landed was random, so while a floor of 13 in Wisdom or 9 in Constitution does not seem like a big deal, there were many fighters running around with 7s in one of those scores and taking a -1 to your saves or having only a 40% chance to be resurected is a very big deal in play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9175396, member: 7030563"] To start with the +30 reaction adjustment is huge in play. With +30 you were gauranteed that people you met would not be hostile! [U]GARAUNTEED[/U] as the maximum to be hostile was 25% and with a 1 on a d100 roll you got a 31. Further one in three Paladins had an 18 and not a 17 which meant +35. In play nearly half of creatures you encountered would be "enthusiastically friendly" towards a Paladin. In the 1E combat system avoiding combat, or even acting first was a big, big deal. Second there are two sets of Paladin mimimums. Those you cite are the early minimums, the late minimums once they became a subclass of Cavalier were: S 15, I 9, W 13, D15, C 15, Cha 17 Third, where your high and low rolls landed was random, so while a floor of 13 in Wisdom or 9 in Constitution does not seem like a big deal, there were many fighters running around with 7s in one of those scores and taking a -1 to your saves or having only a 40% chance to be resurected is a very big deal in play. [/QUOTE]

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