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Snowgen’s Basic D&D Paladin & Ranger - NerdsRPG - 10-18-2023
Sorry, I know it is your show and forum but I think basic D&D is a much better term than OD&D since you are including Holmes, B/X, BECMI and RC so I hope you will excuse the thread title.
That out of the way I enjoyed episode 098 of the Dekahedron RPG Podcast and would like to discuss these versions of the classes because I do think they have merit.
Evil Jeff has whole episodes on Minons and Musings about creating new classes using the “point buy system” as it were and I hope he will chime in on how well Snowgen did on the fly.
I like the idea of fighter/cleric for a Paladin or a dwarf fighter/cleric as Paladin if you want race as class. That said instead of the wood elf, which aren’t specifically playable in some editions, I would use the halfling for the fighter/druid combo as a ranger. That gives a special class to each of the demi-humans since elves already get fighter/magic-user.
Also I wasn’t clear, are you just adding the spell lists to the fighter or is this the whole AD&D 1E deal of picking the most beneficial saving throws and rolling hit dice for each class?
RE: Snowgen’s Basic D&D Paladin & Ranger - Evil Jeff - 10-18-2023
I listened to the podcast today and will re-listen to it so I can fully digest it. From the initial parts, I liked what I heard. The part of reskinning the demi-humans into other classes has merit but could be throwing advancement out of whack for the perks they get.
For what Jason was referring to in my podcast, it was the review of Welsh Piper's BX Options book, the culmination of the info on the website you referenced. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eviljeff/episodes/Evil-Jeffs-review-corner--Today---BX-Options-Class-Builder-ek7ffs
I'll give some brain power to the paladin/ranger idea based on the Class Builder book and report back to you.