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Inquiry: How do fans of AD&D (aka 1E) feel about the Unearthed Arcana supplement?
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<blockquote data-quote="LoganRan" data-source="post: 8433600" data-attributes="member: 7030686"><p>Piggybacking off of my other post regarding 4E and Essentials, I wanted to get a read on how fans of 1E feel about 1E Unearthed Arcana.</p><p></p><p>If you are a fan of 1E, did you like Unearthed Arcana? Did you hate it with the fury of a thousand suns? Were you ambivalent? Please include your reasoning behind your feelings if you can articulate them.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I hated Unearthed Arcana.</p><p></p><p>The new classes were so wonky: Barbarians had lots of interesting stuff but couldn't work with magic-users, tried to destroy magic items (IIRC) and needed ridiculous amounts of xp to level, cavaliers were so mount focused that they seemed pretty useless for most currently produced site based (often dungeon) adventures plus they had the weird mechanic of slowly raising their ability scores, acrobats were...just...lame.</p><p></p><p>Additionally, I HATED the inclusion of new, bizarre races like deep gnomes and drow as playable races. HATED it.</p><p></p><p>Unearthed Arcana dramatically diminished my interest in D&D and it was a precursor to even further changes which pretty much killed my interest in the game for a long time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LoganRan, post: 8433600, member: 7030686"] Piggybacking off of my other post regarding 4E and Essentials, I wanted to get a read on how fans of 1E feel about 1E Unearthed Arcana. If you are a fan of 1E, did you like Unearthed Arcana? Did you hate it with the fury of a thousand suns? Were you ambivalent? Please include your reasoning behind your feelings if you can articulate them. Personally, I hated Unearthed Arcana. The new classes were so wonky: Barbarians had lots of interesting stuff but couldn't work with magic-users, tried to destroy magic items (IIRC) and needed ridiculous amounts of xp to level, cavaliers were so mount focused that they seemed pretty useless for most currently produced site based (often dungeon) adventures plus they had the weird mechanic of slowly raising their ability scores, acrobats were...just...lame. Additionally, I HATED the inclusion of new, bizarre races like deep gnomes and drow as playable races. HATED it. Unearthed Arcana dramatically diminished my interest in D&D and it was a precursor to even further changes which pretty much killed my interest in the game for a long time. [/QUOTE]
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