AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e?

[James Gasik]

Any time someone told me that 3d6 was the "intended" way to generate characters, I'd just grab any 1e module with pre-generated characters. They pretty much always had at least one 16-18 in the array, though granted, sometimes they were in odd places (Bone Hill has a Cleric with a 17 Charisma as his high stat...).

 

[mixmastashizz]

Any time someone told me that 3d6 was the "intended" way to generate characters, I'd just grab any 1e module with pre-generated characters. They pretty much always had at least one 16-18 in the array, though granted, sometimes they were in odd places (Bone Hill has a Cleric with a 17 Charisma as his high stat...).

Idk why you'd need to even do that. You can just show them the PHB and the DMG and tell them to read two pages where it says not to!

 

[James Gasik]

Idk why you'd need to even do that. You can just show them the PHB and the DMG and tell them to read two pages where it says not to!

Don't forget that 1) you're not supposed to be reading the DMG, and if you are, you're deserving of a less than honorable death (lol). And 2) nothing tops the human brain's ability to deny facts that don't fit their preferred version of reality.