Things that have bugged you since 1E

[Zander]

D&D is a living game in the sense that it evolves and, hopefully, improves.

But one thing that really cheesed me off in 1E is still true in 3.5E: animate object is a clerical spell. It should be arcane or shared. How can you have a sorcerer's apprentice animating brooms to fetch water if the sorcerer himself can't cast the spell. Arrghhh

What small things about D&D have bugged you for a long time and never seem to get fixed?

 

[Mark]

What small things about D&D have bugged you for a long time and never seem to get fixed?

Doesn't bug me personally, but a lot of folks have been cheesed at diaglo...

 

[BiggusGeekus]

What small things about D&D have bugged you for a long time and never seem to get fixed?

3.5 has the first implimentation of favored enemy that I really liked.

That being said, I think all gnomes should be "fixed".

 

[Kichwas]

Things that have bugged me since first edition?

I don't like that the game has classes, levels, alignments, hit points, and depends so much on random factors in relation to good play choices.

 

[Drew]

Things that have bugged me since first edition?

I don't like that the game has classes, levels, alignments, hit points, and depends so much on random factors in relation to good play choices.

So you don't like D&D? Huh...

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Things that have bugged me since first edition?

I don't like that the game has classes, levels, alignments, hit points, and depends so much on random factors in relation to good play choices.

arcady, I have to echo Drew in this. That stuff all makes up D&D. There are plenty of other RPGs out there that would fit the bill for anyone who dislikes so many of the core tropes of D&D. Instead of wanting to remake D&D as another game altogether, I'd simply play another game.

One of the things that has bugged me since 1e is how small elves are. I mean, I know I can make them as big as I want (and I do; about the size of Tolkien's elves who are generally taller than humans), but it's the first thing that leaps to mind.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

One of the things that has bugged me since 1e is how small elves are. I mean, I know I can make them as big as I want (and I do; about the size of Tolkien's elves who are generally taller than humans), but it's the first thing that leaps to mind.

Ha! I knew I wasn't the only one that didn't like this

 

[JeffB]

Ha! I knew I wasn't the only one that didn't like this

Me three! I thougt I was the only one

Maybe we can start a new club

BASE

Bothered About Shrimpy Elves

One of the things that kind of bugs me more now than then, is that Rangers and Bards cast spells. IMO Rangers should not have any spell ability (w/ the exception of the Aragorn-style healing, I guess) and Bards should work all their magic through songs, poetry, or whatever (class abilities).

 

[Tsyr]

The only thing that has really bothered me all along is the non-specialness of elves. I want my elves to be more than just long-lived people who meditate instead of sleep, darnit. But DnD really doesn't convey that very well.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The only thing that has really bothered me all along is the non-specialness of elves. I want my elves to be more than just long-lived people who meditate instead of sleep, darnit. But DnD really doesn't convey that very well.

Funny, the over-specialness of elves has always bugged me. 3E finally pulled them down to a level where they are reasonably balanced with the other races; in previous editions they were too good to be true (esp. in OD&D and 1E, where they could cast in armor).