On Sat, 13 May 2023 22:44:22 -0700 (PDT), Mega Zeta <
presidentghostfulcrum@gmail.com> wrote:
Errata:
For anyone looking for the "samurai paladin" kit listed above: this
should be "saurial paladin," meaning a paladin kit for the finhead
saurial PC subrace described in Complete Book of Humanoids, the book
where the kit is found. (This kit represents the character Dragonbait
from the Forgotten Realms novels.)
I don't want that note to overshadow my admiration for the hard work
that went into this list, though. I'm still getting use out of it in
2023. If you're reading replies here after all these years,
T.G., thank you.
Well, with praise like that, now I have to go and find the original
article. (oddly enough, my provider doesn't archive all the way back
to 1999 ;-).
So if you're also weirdly interested in the topic, here's the original
post:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.frp.dnd/c/rL3rBC4GvY0
I was never a fan of AD&D 2nd Ed kits; too often, they were poorly
thought out. They were either over- or under-powered, added
unnecessary complexities to the rules, and generally could have been
better done with simple role-playing rather than creating entirely new
classes and rules. I allowed them in my campaigns, but only
grudgingly, and they rarely worked well.
The books themselves, though, were useful sources of inspiration and,
I admit, I bought too many of them. I don't blame TSR for pumping them
out the way they did - the money was too good - but I wish some more
thought had been put into their development.
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