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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7532072" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I notorious for house ruling the heck out of any game that I run, and the longer I run it the more I want to house rule it to smooth over any friction I've encountered in running a system. So every single system I run ends up borrowing liberally from original ideas, supplemental rules, or ideas I stole from other systems.</p><p></p><p>I won't even begin to describe the rules I was using at my 1e table. It would take too long, some of it was embarrassingly bad, and much that was good was done more cleanly in 3e (hence my love of 3e). At the 1e table where I was a PC rather than the DM, we kept to the core of 1e but were using 2e initiative rolls, 2e bards, 2e specialist mages instead of Illusionists, 2e dragons, plus a ton of supplemental rules from Dragon Magazine from both 1e and 2e. Plus some house rules I'd written for the DM when the DM realized that some of the rules he liked from Dragon magazine weren't well play tested.</p><p></p><p>My 3e house rules are a hodge podge of 3.0e and 3.5e, plus homebrew first aid rules similar to BRP, size rules partially inspired by 4e's decision to multiply starting HD and implemented in part based on my experience with GURPS, fear/horror/madness rules for 3e era Ravenloft supplement, and a ton of original rules with inspirations that borrow lightly or very heavily from third party and Dragon rules supplements. The Explorer homebrew class for example has inspirational Legacy going back to Dragon #116's(?) Mariner class for high seas adventures. </p><p></p><p>I'm running 5e Call of Cthulhu right now. I strongly suspect that at some point I'm going to want to migrate most of the rules over to 7e, while leaving in place a 5e concepts that were the reason I initially rejected 7e wholesale (unfairly, I'm beginning to feel as I struggle with some pain points I hadn't remembered or really felt decades ago).</p><p></p><p>So I guess for me, the answer to the question is probably "Never", though I also suspect that I am unusual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7532072, member: 4937"] I notorious for house ruling the heck out of any game that I run, and the longer I run it the more I want to house rule it to smooth over any friction I've encountered in running a system. So every single system I run ends up borrowing liberally from original ideas, supplemental rules, or ideas I stole from other systems. I won't even begin to describe the rules I was using at my 1e table. It would take too long, some of it was embarrassingly bad, and much that was good was done more cleanly in 3e (hence my love of 3e). At the 1e table where I was a PC rather than the DM, we kept to the core of 1e but were using 2e initiative rolls, 2e bards, 2e specialist mages instead of Illusionists, 2e dragons, plus a ton of supplemental rules from Dragon Magazine from both 1e and 2e. Plus some house rules I'd written for the DM when the DM realized that some of the rules he liked from Dragon magazine weren't well play tested. My 3e house rules are a hodge podge of 3.0e and 3.5e, plus homebrew first aid rules similar to BRP, size rules partially inspired by 4e's decision to multiply starting HD and implemented in part based on my experience with GURPS, fear/horror/madness rules for 3e era Ravenloft supplement, and a ton of original rules with inspirations that borrow lightly or very heavily from third party and Dragon rules supplements. The Explorer homebrew class for example has inspirational Legacy going back to Dragon #116's(?) Mariner class for high seas adventures. I'm running 5e Call of Cthulhu right now. I strongly suspect that at some point I'm going to want to migrate most of the rules over to 7e, while leaving in place a 5e concepts that were the reason I initially rejected 7e wholesale (unfairly, I'm beginning to feel as I struggle with some pain points I hadn't remembered or really felt decades ago). So I guess for me, the answer to the question is probably "Never", though I also suspect that I am unusual. [/QUOTE]
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