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Seriously, it's better. AD&D was only meant for tournament play, and tries to force everything so that things would be the same from table to table. The motto of AD&D is anything not permitted is forbidden, whereas the motto for OD&D is anything not forbidden is permitted.
Also, there's this wonderful line at the bottom of page 8 of Men & Magic:
Other Character Types: There is no reason that players cannot be allowed to play as virtually anything, provided they begin relatively weak and work up to the top, i.e., a player wishing to be a Dragon would have to begin as let us say, a "young" one and progress upwards in the usual manner, steps being predetermined by the campaign
referee.In other words, even though there was very little written in the book, you were supposed to just make it up as you went along, do whatever felt right, and what you enjoyed doing. Totally against the ( ... )
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Most of my role-playing is my own version of the Traveller rules. The basic principle of this is 'Roll 2d6 and try to beat the number that I just arbitrarily made up'.
Having said that, you should see my 22mb Excel spreadsheet interstellar trading system...
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Similarly I often wonder about my home with not many clothes on.
The Captain, aged 3 and a bit, can barely be induced to keep his strides on when we’re at any place with water. Photographing his lovely squishy toddlerness with him closed is pretty much impossible.
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