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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8634454" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Worth noting that many groups didn't even understand all the rules of AD&amp;D and so their house rules weren't always so much rulings as misunderstandings!I was always that nerd who read the rulebooks cover to cover and was constantly being like &quot;oh hey, there's a rule for that!&quot;.&nbsp; I thought I was being helpful, but I had more than one DM pull me aside over the years and say &quot;we don't play it that way&quot;.Worse was when people would argue with me and say &quot;no such rule exists and I would know because I've been playing for X years&quot;.&nbsp; Then I'd show them the text and they'd throw a fit.Like the time I was playing with a 2e group who thought you got multiple attacks with both weapons if you dual wielded...as if two weapon fighting wasn't already busted in 2e!I showed them the rule, they looked at it, and continued to play with their hasted double scimitar of speed characters with 6 attacks per round while hasted (they were all Elves* of course, so who misses a few years of life when you can live for centuries?).*a certain subrace that foolishly was granted the ability to have 19 Strength and Dexterity by a certain Book of Elves, no less...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8634454, member: 6877472"] Worth noting that many groups didn't even understand all the rules of AD&D and so their house rules weren't always so much rulings as misunderstandings! I was always that nerd who read the rulebooks cover to cover and was constantly being like "oh hey, there's a rule for that!". I thought I was being helpful, but I had more than one DM pull me aside over the years and say "we don't play it that way". Worse was when people would argue with me and say "no such rule exists and I would know because I've been playing for X years". Then I'd show them the text and they'd throw a fit. Like the time I was playing with a 2e group who thought you got multiple attacks with both weapons if you dual wielded...as if two weapon fighting wasn't already busted in 2e! I showed them the rule, they looked at it, and continued to play with their hasted double scimitar of speed characters with 6 attacks per round while hasted (they were all Elves* of course, so who misses a few years of life when you can live for centuries?). *a certain subrace that foolishly was granted the ability to have 19 Strength and Dexterity by a certain Book of Elves, no less... [/QUOTE]

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