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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7512863" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>What happens when a non-hencman NPC in 1st ed AD&D gains an XP bonus (eg from looking through a Deck of Many Things) or suffers an XP penalty (eg from reading the wrong magical book)? The rules don't provide a straightforward answer - the GM has to extrapolate and make a ruling.</p><p></p><p>What happens if a mercenary captain loses a level to a wight? Can s/he - who is normally "capable of working upwards" in level (DMG p 31) able to regain the lost level? And if so, by what means? Again, the GM has to make a ruling.</p><p></p><p>Which is not a weakness of AD&D - I personally would suggest that this flexibility with how levels and HD serve multiple purposes in the game counts as one of its strengths! It's one of those strengths of classic D&D that 4e then recovered and repurposed in its own way! (Compared to the emerging tendency in 2nd ed AD&D, which became much more marked in 3E, to try and treat these things as models of in-fiction causal processes.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7512863, member: 42582"] What happens when a non-hencman NPC in 1st ed AD&D gains an XP bonus (eg from looking through a Deck of Many Things) or suffers an XP penalty (eg from reading the wrong magical book)? The rules don't provide a straightforward answer - the GM has to extrapolate and make a ruling. What happens if a mercenary captain loses a level to a wight? Can s/he - who is normally "capable of working upwards" in level (DMG p 31) able to regain the lost level? And if so, by what means? Again, the GM has to make a ruling. Which is not a weakness of AD&D - I personally would suggest that this flexibility with how levels and HD serve multiple purposes in the game counts as one of its strengths! It's one of those strengths of classic D&D that 4e then recovered and repurposed in its own way! (Compared to the emerging tendency in 2nd ed AD&D, which became much more marked in 3E, to try and treat these things as models of in-fiction causal processes.) [/QUOTE]
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