“By the Ascendant Dragon’s hoard,” she breathed. “They never printed this. The 1st Edition Mythic Realms expansion. The one Paizo cancelled when they switched to 2E.”

Lina started laughing, a giddy, desperate laugh. “Kaelen, this is broken. This is beautiful. This is the most unbalanced, glorious, nostalgia-fueled mess ever written.”

Kaelen drew a shortsword. “Can you fight a golem?”

Lina plugged the spike into her portable cipher-slate. The file tree reappeared. She opened the Mythic Realms PDF.

“Let the 2E players have their elegance,” she said, a grin spreading across her freckled face. “We have grapple checks, prestige class trees, and a thirty-two-step process for calculating jumping distance.”