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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WheresMyD20" data-source="post: 4594019" data-attributes="member: 60772">Thoughts on 2e:- I really like the fact that the monk and assassin classes were removed.- Demi-human level limits are sky-high, which make humans clearly the weakest PC race.  I rarely saw human PCs in 2e campaigns.- Bards cast more damaging fireballs and lightning bolts than magic-users of equal experience points. This gets really distorted in high-level play (which our group did a lot of). When a bard achieves 20d6 fireballs, a magic-user is casting 15d6 fireballs.EDIT: Yeah, I forgot about the 10d6 cap on fireballs in 2e (the group I played in never used the damage caps).  Still, the point remains that bards have a higher spellcasting level than a mage with equal experience points.  This means that any spell that varies by level will be more powerful if cast by a bard than a mage.- I think that priests of specific mythoi are too open-ended for the player's handbook.  I'd prefer them in the DMG along with plenty of well-balanced examples.  I'd like to see only the basic cleric and druid in the player's handbook.- I generally like the redesign of the ranger.- I like the fact that psionics were removed from the core rules.- I greatly prefer the gritty, sword-and-sorcery feel of 1e over the more colorful high-fantasy feel of 2e.  I especially dislike the renaming of the demons and devils.- The Gygaxian prose of 1e adds a lot of flavor that is missing in 2e.Overall, when I run AD&D, I prefer to run 1e while incorporating some of the good ideas of 2e.</blockquote>

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