I am all against it, it breaks the spirit of the game.
If you look at the left side of the screen, this is Diablo 2 LOD speedrun page, there's a picture of the Diablo 2 LOD box, at the top of your screen, is speedrun.com/d2lod/forum.
Classic has it's place, and you can do Classic%, with Conversion as part of a Classic%+ category.
But I don't agree on allowing that into D2 LOD Any%. It really breaks the of the run. Progressing past a difficulty, then double backing to kill Baal, just doesn't make sense to me at all.
Normal Baal should be a requirement before going into NM, and NM Baal before going into Hell.
We have a Google Spreadsheet to keep track of weird challenge runs you might want to attempt and challenge others with. LINK : https://goo.gl/2JQxtY
To start, donnchadh has submitted The Unfamiliar Run.
You guys are welcome to submit any type of runs you'd like, with a distinct rule set. reply here or message me here/discord.
Lots of ideas on Discord, but not many has submitted runs yet, or I guess, completed their run? haha