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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8650156" data-attributes="member: 58197">There weren't officially crit rules, no, but it was a very common house rule. And RAW wasn't really a thing back then--even folks who thought they were playing strictly by the book usually weren't.In general, any time we're talking about a game from the TSR era and especially 1E, one should assume a heaping dose of a) house rules and b) misunderstandings of the official rules, which were labyrinthine enough to baffle Baphomet himself. In the D&amp;D game that opens the Season 1 premiere, Will has to make an attack roll with a fireball, which is certainly not by the book... but the kids might have assumed that a damaging spell constituted an attack and thus required an attack roll.IMO, the only thing that's really inaccurate is the use of &quot;rogue&quot; instead of &quot;thief.&quot; (And I'll be honest, I didn't even notice that until y'all pointed it out.) I'm just going to say that Erica decided on her own to call it &quot;rogue,&quot; and then later in life browbeat some D&amp;D designers into adopting that term for later editions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />To the original question--that scene was awesome, and I really appreciated the goodies they tossed in for D&amp;D players. Obviously there's the &quot;Vecna lives!&quot; reference, but I especially loved the reveal where everyone freaks out at the cultist missing a hand and eye. That kind of reveal, getting that kind of reaction, is the sweetest, purest joy a DM can know. (And it was a special gift to D&amp;D fans, because no one else in the audience would have had a clue what it was about.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8650156, member: 58197"] There weren't officially crit rules, no, but it was a very common house rule. And RAW wasn't really a thing back then--even folks who thought they were playing strictly by the book usually weren't. In general, any time we're talking about a game from the TSR era and especially 1E, one should assume a heaping dose of a) house rules and b) misunderstandings of the official rules, which were labyrinthine enough to baffle Baphomet himself. In the D&D game that opens the Season 1 premiere, Will has to make an attack roll with a [I]fireball[/I], which is certainly not by the book... but the kids might have assumed that a damaging spell constituted an attack and thus required an attack roll. IMO, the only thing that's really [I]inaccurate[/I] is the use of "rogue" instead of "thief." (And I'll be honest, I didn't even notice that until y'all pointed it out.) I'm just going to say that Erica decided on her own to call it "rogue," and then later in life browbeat some D&D designers into adopting that term for later editions. :) To the original question--that scene was awesome, and I really appreciated the goodies they tossed in for D&D players. Obviously there's the "Vecna lives!" reference, but I especially loved the reveal where everyone freaks out at the cultist missing a hand and eye. That kind of reveal, getting that kind of reaction, is the sweetest, purest joy a DM can know. (And it was a special gift to D&D fans, because no one else in the audience would have had a clue what it was about.) [/QUOTE]

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