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Gnomes certainly can wear armor while casting spells! Garl Glittergold certainly does and encourages his people to emulate him in good spirits, hijinks and just punishment of evil doers. What's the point of being a illusionist/thief or a thief/cleric/illusionist if you can't emulate old Garl...

So, I don't think so. We have discussed 1e AD&D enough over the years that I'm pretty sure I will never end up with my "fixed" version looking anything like your fixed version. What you think is elegant and interesting I find banal and removing the unique charm of the older edition, and...

Yes. Multiclassing is common, but I've never had to enforce the experience penalty, because the rule serves its purpose of guiding the players to builds that suit the flavor of the race in question. Note that I don't have PrC's in my game, and I have a lot of custom classes. The last party...

@Lanefan I had this problem in the revised dragon thread discussing the game with you; you've made so many adjustments to the game that it is almost unrecognizable as AD&D (and the RAW was completely unfamiliar to you because you've been playing your game for so long). If you are nerfing...

Just off the top of my head, the fighter is linear and arguably the strongest class in the game. But it is helpful to have high level casters because their power grows exponentially. The trouble is, it's almost impossible to get a high level single classed M-U in RAW AD&D unless your DM is...

Yes. To get the benefit of two classes for basically the price of one. I find it interesting that most of the criticism I got on the "thief" thread was "the thief is fine as it, it doesn't need your power creep", and the criticism that I'm getting in this thread is, "This is not nearly enough...

That's actually pretty reasonable. Only the problem is that it's just like introducing Wild Elves and Grey Elves and Drow Elves as PC options. All you are really doing is ensuring players just pick a Greater Deity as a patron.

Gestalt classing is just inherently more powerful than single classing, especially in a system where the XP needed to level is exponential. You are losing 1 level of advancement to gain N-1 levels. That's an insanely good deal. I realize that there were some 3e groups that preferred to play...

Indeed, that is what I'm doing.

With respect, I'm addressing a specific instance of the rules in Star Wars D6. You have a wound track - Stunned, Wounded, Unconscious, Mortally Wounded, Dead. What I am saying is the vacuum damager can't advance you from mortally wounded to dead. However, in the Mortally Wounded state you...

Not all the ISN was snarling mustachioed evil villains that kicked babies and ate puppies. The ISN was fully aware that the X-Wing was a good space superiority fighter, but in theory an interceptor leaning TIE should have the edge on space superiority fighters in a dog fight based on clone wars...

Canonically, the ejection system of the X-Wing is more like an escape pod than an ejector seat. Of course, that wouldn't do you any good if the canopy was breached. However, I chalk it up to the Alliance just being a bunch of insurgents without a lot of military discipline or bearing...

Cool. That's close to what I'm doing. I do have the escalating difficulty thing going, though it's not clear what the intention of "passing out from lack of air" means. Does that mean vacuum is never life threatening in Star Wars? You go unconscious and then...? I have to adjudicate...

The 2e Von Richen Guides were pretty revolutionary at the time because they treated monsters as characters in their own right, fully customizable and diverse. They'll probably seem less revolutionary now that that has become the norm, especially post 3e. However, you may find the guides to...

At the time I was playing AD&D, I never really questioned the demi-human level caps which in retrospect surprises me a little considering how much I did question and try to change. However, whether I had a bias then or now, I still don’t feel a need to actually eliminate the mechanic. Were I to...