D&D General Younger Players Telling Us how Old School Gamers Played

[GMforPowergamers]

I was going back to the initial point as raised: bonus XP for acting your class, which I was very much against. I don’t know where you stand on that issue.

my group does group xp today... but back in 3e and 2e I would dock XP if you acted like a jerk.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Player choice of how to assign % points to a thief didn't start until 2e. Prior to 2e, your skills were all level based with no player choice on how good you were with each. But even in 2e, all thieves had a base value in all of their skills.

Thanks for the correction. I apparently retro-conflated this since I hadn't looked at either version in, well, a very long time; I was so sure of it I just went back and checked Greyhawk and you're absolutely correct. (I'd also forgotten how really terrible they were at their skills until about 7th level...)

 

[Sacrosanct]

Thanks for the correction. I apparently retro-conflated this since I hadn't looked at either version in, well, a very long time; I was so sure of it I just went back and checked Greyhawk and you're absolutely correct. (I'd also forgotten how really terrible they were at their skills until about 7th level...)

Yep. It's why I always add the caveat: "My favorite edition is 1e, but with some 2e elements, like thief skill progression and the bard class." 2e did it way better, IMO

 

[MichaelSomething]

do you know where MMOs got that from?

by the rules; which is the most unimportant factor in how a D&D game is done.

 

[Thomas Shey]

by the rules; which is the most unimportant factor in how a D&D game is done.

Let's just say that as with similar claims, "that varies considerably".