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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8203609" data-attributes="member: 7025997">What a fascinating and enlightening thread. Knowing too much about old editions can trip you up because you think you know things you don't actually know.It is interesting that a lot of the OSR games use some version of BECMI rather than 1e or 2e as their basis for people looking for a 'retro' experience. Simpler and fewer rules, I'd guess, which was always one of the OSR attractions, from what I can tell.I went from 1e to 5e, which was entertaining when I forgot about using hit dice to recover HP and instead stocked up on healing potions, freaked out when a spectre showed up (oh, temporary loss of maximum HP if it hits you? You used to permanently lose two entire levels unless you could find a 16th level cleric to cast restoration!), was planning to dual class into wizard to get Fire Shield when I realized it only did 2d6 instead of double the attacker's damage.I actually went through the tables of monster resistances for the various editions. Devils have been immune to fire and taken full damage from electricity for a while.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8203609, member: 7025997"] What a fascinating and enlightening thread. Knowing too much about old editions can trip you up because you think you know things you don't actually know. It is interesting that a lot of the OSR games use some version of BECMI rather than 1e or 2e as their basis for people looking for a 'retro' experience. Simpler and fewer rules, I'd guess, which was always one of the OSR attractions, from what I can tell. I went from 1e to 5e, which was entertaining when I forgot about using hit dice to recover HP and instead stocked up on healing potions, freaked out when a spectre showed up (oh, temporary loss of maximum HP if it hits you? You used to [I]permanently lose two entire levels [/I]unless you could find a [I]16th level cleric[/I] to cast restoration!), was planning to dual class into wizard to get Fire Shield when I realized it only did 2d6 instead of [I]double the attacker's damage.[/I] I actually went through the tables of monster resistances for the various editions. Devils have been immune to fire and taken full damage from electricity for a while. [/QUOTE]

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