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O.O;

Why? Oh god, why?

You can get the 3.0PHP used for <$10 now, and that's all you need to
play 3.0. Why would you subject yourself to 1stEd torment?
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romzombie.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
> O.O;
>
> Why? Oh god, why?
>
> You can get the 3.0PHP used for <$10 now, and that's all you need to
> play 3.0. Why would you subject yourself to 1stEd torment?

Hehe, not even 1e. It's basic! But you really need a DMG for the DM
as well for at least the xp tables. You can get by with 1 PHB, and 1
DMG for a group for the xp tables, and everyone else can use the SRD
for everything besides xp.

Perhaps they want a simpler game. But they could go with one of the
d20 lite games (there's at least one out there that's downloadable for
free), which have far less rules, yet have many of the improvements of
the last 30 years.

- Justisaur
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Moo wrote:
> In the original D&D (red basic books, blue expert book),

You haven't described the original, but the BXCMI boxed sets, the
3rd revision of classic DnD (AKA 3rd edition of Basic DnD, AKA BDnD) and
contemporary to 1st edition ADnD.

> when killing a mage my DM is under the impression that you get whatever XP
> the mage would have required to reach his level (i.e. 25000 etc).

He's misread the rule.

> I am positive that when I read through the rules for my own campaign I found
> specific rules relating to the XP gained from killing a mage.
>
> Unfortunately my original rules were lost so when I found them cheap on ebay
> I purchased them but I cannot find the above entry anywhere.
>
> Was I imagining it and what is the real rule for the original D&D?

Text from the Rules Cyclopedia, which should be identical but I'm
too lazy to check. Original emphasis.

"Any creature able to cast spells gains one asterisk for each two spell
levels that it can memorize (round up; a magic-user who can memorize up
to 3rd level spells gets 2 asterisks). /A spellcaster's experience level
is used for the calculation, instead of his or her Hit Dice/."

Experience Level is referred to because player character classes
stop gaining HD past name level, so your looking up their level rather
than their HD on the HD table.
A 21st level mage (with 9th level spells) should earn you 12500 XP,
plus additional stars at 2000 XP each from attacking magic items he uses
(or defensive items that have substantial effect), plus 1 XP per gp of
treasure he had, plus any additional rewards as the DM sees fit. He
still only has 9 Hit Dice.

--
tussock

Aspie at work, sorry in advance.
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<romzombie.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> O.O;
>
> Why? Oh god, why?
>
> You can get the 3.0PHP used for <$10 now, and that's all you need to
> play 3.0. Why would you subject yourself to 1stEd torment?
>

Because it is what we always played 10 years back in college. AD&D was
complicated for our drunken states! We've adapted it slightly over the
years to make it better but why change what isn't broken?
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On 31 Mar 2006 07:20:40 -0800, "romzombie@gmail.com" <romzombie RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:

>You can get the 3.0PHP used for <$10 now, and that's all you need to
>play 3.0. Why would you subject yourself to 1stEd torment?

'Cause it still fun to play?
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<romzombie.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> O.O;
>
> Why? Oh god, why?
>
> You can get the 3.0PHP used for <$10 now, and that's all you need to
> play 3.0. Why would you subject yourself to 1stEd torment?
>
Which would you rather drive, a 2005 Mazda Miata or a 1967 Mustang?

Kinda the same idea with the Old Gamer, s/he will want to hang onto it for
nostalgia or comfort.

-==-
Jerry Chesko
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Uh... the example that you used is entirely inaccurate.

It's more like a 2006 (fuel cell powered) Mustang, and a 1960's
Volkswagen Bug.

One is cleaner, sleeker and not only gets more miles to the gallon, but
has greater power to boot, the other is a clunky antique that now only
hippies and volkswagen fanatics drive. Yea, it was hot stuff in the
60's. It's not the 60's anymore.
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