D&D General What rule do you hate most from any edition? (+ Thread)

[FrozenNorth]

An example from 2e (my teen years). We hated niche protection so strong that your party had to bring along a cleric that no one actually wanted to play.

 

[Mezuka]

Regaining all HPs after a nights rest. It is as worst as the meager night healing of prior editions. Rest healing should be somewhere in the middle. Not a roll. A fixed value based on class and level.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Regaining all HPs after a nights rest. It is as worst as the meager night healing of prior editions. Rest healing should be somewhere in the middle. Not a roll. A fixed value based on class and level.

You could use the Slow Natural Healing variant, in which players must spend HD to be healed (like during a short rest), not forgetting that a long rest only restore half your max HD. You could then have the players use the average roll of their HD size instead of rolling it.

ex: A 8th level fighter would regain 4 HD per long rest, when he spends one overnight to regain some hp for the next day, he regains 6+con mod.

 

[Mezuka]

You could use the Slow Natural Healing variant, in which players must spend HD to be healed (like during a short rest), not forgetting that a long rest only restore half your max HD. You could then have the players use the average roll of their HD size instead of rolling it.

ex: A 8th level fighter would regain 4 HD per long rest, when he spends one overnight to regain some hp for the next day, he regains 6+con mod.

That is exaclty what I did. ;-)

 

[Ath'kethin]

Regaining all HPs after a nights rest. It is as worst as the meager night healing of prior editions. Rest healing should be somewhere in the middle. Not a roll. A fixed value based on class and level.

This rule doesn't bother me really; after all, no few fantasy stories I'm familiar with included days or weeks of convalescence for injured heroes.

When I want to slow it down, though, I have PCs heal 1hp/level per day of rest (so a 5th level character heals 5 HP per day). It's a decent medium in my experience.

 

[Cadence]

This rule doesn't bother me really; after all, no fantasy stories I'm familiar with included days or weeks of convalescence for injured heroes.

When I want to slow it down, though, I have PCs heal 1hp/level per day of rest (so a 5th level character heals 5 HP per day). It's a decent medium in my experience.

Frodo, Eowyn, and Faramir healing in LotR are all big things (was that all magical injury though?).

Croaker in the Black Company is the physician/medic in addition to being the annalist, so you see a bit of that in their.

 

[Vaalingrade]

An example from 2e (my teen years). We hated niche protection so strong that your party had to bring along a cleric that no one actually wanted to play.

Don't forget the rogue with trapfinding. At least in 3e.

 

[Ath'kethin]

Frodo, Eowyn, and Faramir healing in LotR are all big things (was that all magical injury though?).

Croaker in the Black Company is the physician/medic in addition to being the annalist, so you see a bit of that in their.

Fair enough. I tend to think more along Conan and Fafhrd & the Mouser stories, but you're right.

 

[Maxperson]

Fewer than that even; Exceptional Strength was only for Fighters, Paladins, and Rangers with an 18 Strength.

Stats were either rolled in order and then classes were chosen, or stats were placed. If they were rolled in order and an 18 was rolled for strength, I saw all of 0 people opt not to play a fighter, paladin or ranger. Rolling that percentile on strength was one of the holy grails of the game. If you placed stats, that 18 wasn't going into strength unless you were playing a fighter, paladin or ranger.

 

[Maxperson]

That's right. I forgot about that part. So that's probably 1 in 1,000 characters.

Nah. It was very close to 1/216 for the reasons I stated in my prior post.