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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omak Darkleaf" data-source="post: 9402727" data-attributes="member: 7045897">So until recently I played with five grognards in a Rappan Athuk OSR campaign. We used 5e with a bunch of house rules to amp up the game’s deadliness— lingering injuries, no long rests except in town, increased XP requirements to level, und so weiter. It would have been a terrific campaign if the DM showed up more than half the time. Well, there was also the bard.We had one guy in the group whom I’ll call Greg. Greg played a deliberately stupid lore bard, an ignorant skill monkey, an idiot savant with an exaggerated and cartoonishly stupid voice. His raison d’être was to “inadvertently” say inappropriate things to NPCs that would sow chaos between them and the party. Everything he said and did was foolish (combat included)—unless there was a skill check that allowed him to show off his 16 intelligence and its five associated proficiencies.One night when the DM blew us off, the six of us started chatting it and the topic turned to first edition rules—and 1e bards in particular—when, apropos of nothing, Greg lets out a low sigh of sorrow and longing as if to preface the tale of a lover lost, a parent passed, a pet put down, a child gone away to college. "Man," said Greg. "I miss THAC0."That was when I decided to quit the campaign.</blockquote>