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An oddball piece of D&D trivia is that it's possible to have a D&D 3.5e character that uses kits taken directly from AD&D 2e. To do so, make a kitted 2e character then use the official Conversion Manual to update your character from 2e to 3e. Make sure you pick your kit carefully: you're trying to qualify under a very specific piece of rules text in the Conversion Manual (page 11):

If a special benefit is not included in the Player’s Handbook as a feat, treat it as a feat using the description provided with the kit.

This gets you a 100% rules-legal 3e character with a unique feat based on a 2e kit of your choice. With this souped-up character, you then do a one-step update from 3e to 3.5e using this wonderful piece of rules text from the 3.5 update booklet:

Do you need to make these changes? No.

Frankly revolutionary game design. I'm so glad this exists as a rule. I love 3.5e. It's so extraordinarily, beautifully jank.

Anyways, there's a specific kit that I think is the funniest possible choice of all AD&D kits to convert to 3.5e. Scholarly Mage, from the A Mighty Fortress green book (page 46), has what is already really bizarre rules text:

Special Benefits: The scholarly mage's biggest benefit is the ability to cast spells. He learns spells just like a standard AD&D® game wizard. However, DMs must review pages 41-44 of the DMG concerning learning, acquiring, and researching new spells and maintaining spell books. All these rules must be followed absolutely!

Yes, the rules actually say this. This is verbatim. Including the registered trademark sign. That's actually, literally in the book, and it all carries through unmodified when converting editions. You learn spells "just like a standard AD&D® game wizard" and your DM has to read books for the wrong edition of the game.

All these rules must be followed absolutely!

This is a valid D&D 3.5 feat.

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The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because ‘tHeRe’S nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uP’ is because I couldn’t call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. “Looking like a boy” was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.

And I’m not even 26 yet. We aren’t talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. It’s only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.

And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, “there’s nothing wrong with how you feel. You’re still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what you’re into ❤️”

And don’t even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like “uwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!” when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.

A lot of people still don’t accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me they’d never let their daughter “dress like a boy”, and I’m always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.

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