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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Musing Mage" data-source="post: 8091486" data-attributes="member: 7025552">My core house rule is that before each session, my players must ritually sacrifice some 5th ed material to the great Gygax so that he will bless our 1st Ed table.It has proven bountiful and our table has benefited from his boon. Well, except our last game where someone forgot to honour the great one, and we had a TPK... Gygax did not smile on them that day.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f608.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":devilish:" title="Devil    :devilish:"  data-smilie="29"data-shortname=":devilish:" />Seriously, I have only run a handful of btb one-shots for 5e, but am getting requests and seem to be inching closer and closer to an actual campaign, so have been laying out the House Rules I will try out. Will add or remove as necessary, but my own rule of thumb is that if I can't fit them on an index card I've got too many.Aiming for an old-school feel with these:1 - 3d6 assign as desired for stats, no point buy or standard array. I feel that with the insane level of bonuses abound, more average stats gives players something to work toward and makes the choice of ASI or Feat at various levels more meaningful... which brings me to:2 - Feats and Multiclass - yes, but you can't have both. If you take one you are barred from the other. Also MC requirements are 15, not 13.3 - Death saves failures linger and are removed at a rate of one per long rest. While you have a Death save failure on your record you do everything at disadvantage.4 - Healing is done at a slower rate. No full heals on Long Rest etc. Full formula TBD.Also since I'm not a fan of the excessive expansion options, core options only unless I introduce something during the course of play and specifically make it available.Such are the basics. Since I think it will be awhile before any gaming happens regularly I'll have time to think about it further and pray that the Mighty Gygax does not smite me for straying from the pure faith. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":oops:" title="Oops!    :oops:"  data-smilie="10"data-shortname=":oops:" /></blockquote>

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