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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 5044600" data-attributes="member: 32740">No it doesn't.&nbsp; When you drop all the footnotes indicating where the particular rule comes from and reformat it (which I did) I was able to boil it down to 6 pages.&nbsp;Well I maybe I'm just easily impressed then.&nbsp; Everything that might ostensibly be qualified as a house rule since it wasn't graven in 1E stone as gospel seemed to be backed up with as authoratative citation as was possible.&nbsp;And think about all those cites.&nbsp; He's trying to figure out precisely how it works and why, and look at what it took for him to do that.&nbsp; Even if in your eyes he failed to accomplish the task how about you show the less-than 6 pages of rules that explains it all?&nbsp;&nbsp;My apologies.&nbsp; I didn't think my gaming resume was required for participation here.&nbsp; Allow me to correct your mistaken suppostions about myself.&nbsp;I was born in 1961.&nbsp; I started as a player with Holmes basic in... 1976 I think it was.&nbsp; It's all a blur these days, it was so long ago.&nbsp; As he acquired them I believe my DM added rules from additional, sources - the three little books plus Greyhawk and Blackmoor, The Strategic Review, Dragon, maybe a little from White Dwarf.&nbsp; We stepped up into AD&amp;D as each of the three core books was published.&nbsp; It was maybe a year or more after that when I finally got my own PH.&nbsp; I graduated high school in 1979.&nbsp; I probably started running my own game as a DM in 1981 or '82.&nbsp; The gaming group I was in had merged with another and at a few games we had as many as 12 players around the table.&nbsp; It was certainly mid-late 80's that I actually decided to try and run a game By The Book as mentioned in previous posts.&nbsp; Though that little experiment failed at least I succeeded in convincing everyone I was gaming with that the house-ruled combat system we HAD been using was every bit as inadequate to the task as what I (and everyone else in the group too) had been unable to piece together from the books themselves.&nbsp; I'm proud to say I also cured them of some other bad house rules in favor of more by-the-book stuff.&nbsp; Hopefully that will suffice as credentials for you.&nbsp; If you need more let me know.&nbsp;As for telling you personally what you should play or how that would be silly.&nbsp; Though it SHOULD go without saying, all I can do is provide my opinion; tell you how _I_ perceive certain things, how _I_ handle them or how _I_ think they should be handled.&nbsp; I have no particular fear of contrary views.&nbsp; Any perception on your behalf that I'm playing the part of the annoying know-it-all must be accidental and even if it weren't you should IGNORE it.As a moderator if you feel I have no business airing my views in this or any thread; if you think I've stepped over the line of acceptible posting behavior you are free to suspend or revoke my account here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 5044600, member: 32740"] No it doesn't. When you drop all the footnotes indicating where the particular rule comes from and reformat it (which I did) I was able to boil it down to 6 pages. Well I maybe I'm just easily impressed then. Everything that might ostensibly be qualified as a house rule since it wasn't graven in 1E stone as gospel seemed to be backed up with as authoratative citation as was possible. And think about all those cites. He's trying to figure out precisely how it works and why, and look at what it took for him to do that. Even if in your eyes he failed to accomplish the task how about you show the less-than 6 pages of rules that explains it all? My apologies. I didn't think my gaming resume was required for participation here. Allow me to correct your mistaken suppostions about myself. I was born in 1961. I started as a player with Holmes basic in... 1976 I think it was. It's all a blur these days, it was so long ago. As he acquired them I believe my DM added rules from additional, sources - the three little books plus Greyhawk and Blackmoor, The Strategic Review, Dragon, maybe a little from White Dwarf. We stepped up into AD&D as each of the three core books was published. It was maybe a year or more after that when I finally got my own PH. I graduated high school in 1979. I probably started running my own game as a DM in 1981 or '82. The gaming group I was in had merged with another and at a few games we had as many as 12 players around the table. It was certainly mid-late 80's that I actually decided to try and run a game By The Book as mentioned in previous posts. Though that little experiment failed at least I succeeded in convincing everyone I was gaming with that the house-ruled combat system we HAD been using was every bit as inadequate to the task as what I (and everyone else in the group too) had been unable to piece together from the books themselves. I'm proud to say I also cured them of some other bad house rules in favor of more by-the-book stuff. Hopefully that will suffice as credentials for you. If you need more let me know. As for telling you personally what you should play or how that would be silly. Though it SHOULD go without saying, all I can do is provide my opinion; tell you how _I_ perceive certain things, how _I_ handle them or how _I_ think they should be handled. I have no particular fear of contrary views. Any perception on your behalf that [U]I'm[/U] playing the part of the annoying know-it-all must be accidental and even if it weren't you should IGNORE it. As a [I]moderator[/I] if you feel I have no business airing my views in this or any thread; if you think I've stepped over the line of acceptible posting behavior you are free to suspend or revoke my account here. [/QUOTE]

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