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NJClaw said:
Yeah, grappling rules are so intricated it's almost hard to believe it isn't just an inside joke ended up in the handbook by accident. However, AD&D has its fair share of needlessly intricate/obscure/specific rules. I mean, there are tables like this one:
It's extremely hard to actually pay attention to this stuff at the table.

Both editions are convoluted in their own ways, it's just a matter of which convolutedness you don't mind that much.
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The AC modifiers are optional rules, of which there are many in the Player's Handbook. In my experience in the 90's, most games did not use those rules, except for individual initiative. The core of AD&D is fairly simple, and not all that crunchy. Fighters do almost nothing outside of a basic attack. There are no feats. The skill system is very simple. 3.x+ is way more crunchy with the amount of rules it contains.
 
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mibbles said:
Can I get a tl;dr on what's known about the game?
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rusty_shackleford said:
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Lacrymas said:
Like we've discussed before, you turn into a vegetable after several hours of being infected with the tadpole and then die completely. You don't have weeks. It takes a week for your dead body to transform into a mindflayer, sure, but that's different.
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You don't die at all, Mindflayers aren't a form of Undead.
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You're dead. Your brain is replaced with the mindflayer.
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BUT DOES IT GRANT HIM POWERS AND IF SO IS THAT A LORE BREACH AND IF SO DOES ANYONE CARE
 
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Insert Title Here Pathfinder: Wrath
The predecessor to Chainmail wasn't Chess it was either fencing/medieval reenactors or massive miniatures ala Warhammer but with no rules.
 
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Desiderius said:
The predecessor to Chainmail wasn't Chess it was either fencing/medieval reenactors or massive miniatures ala Warhammer but with no rules.
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There were plenty of miniature wargames rules before Chainmail, covering a wide variety of historical conflicts. Chainmail's innovation was adding fantasy elements to the game. It's been decline eve since.
 
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