That would be true if all of those things were handled in the same way as the thief's locks and traps abilities. Suppose that combat worked by having enemies with a difficulty rating and fighters wit… (View Post)

That's not quite true: AD&D has a fairly minimalist set of formal mechanics and character classes define broad archetypes. There is little to mechanically differentiate, for example, one fighter … (View Post)

The high level of power that magic-users have is also an artifact of the original D&D rules adapted to computer games in a way that is out of step with the way D&D way played on paper. For on… (View Post)

Realistically, a party would rest and train for days, weeks or months between combats. By the end of BG1, your party racks up more kills and fights in more battles than any real world elite fighting … (View Post)

There is a big difference between 2E and later. 3rd edition is a superheroes game that focuses on fighting. It is a cleaner set of rules that maps well to computer games, but it has nothing in common… (View Post)