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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D.Off-topic, but this has always made me wonder “special compared to what, exactly?”. Fantasy races and alien extraterrestrials were... -
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D.“In that last thread, about overpowered magic items, I referenced the "Holy Trinity" in AD&D, which I thought was at least somewhat...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
Well if we're talking about "weird things about powerful AD&D magic items", here's a fun one: The logic behind the charge costs is...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
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Flying Toaster reacted to GuyBoy's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
Kraftwerk; My bard is a model and she's looking good!
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Flying Toaster reacted to Nikosandros's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
Since I began playing A&D in 1986 and I didn't know any better, I started with Unearthed Arcana right from the start, so in this "dream"...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
I haven't posted an essay in a while, but while I'm slowly working on two (yes yes, one of them is that Tolkien thing, and the other is...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
I'm not sure if I'd call it "player skill" so much as "anticipating Gary's gotcha ideas." I think most groups for most RPGs figure out...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Emerikol's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
Perhaps they were common in many games but most of us old school DMs didn't put them in every adventure. In fact I'd venture some...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
It really, really depends. There are lots of ways to gain levels from magic items- the Deck of Many Things, The Book of Exalted Deeds...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
Yeah, when I've waded through the various retroclones and OSR games, I've been looking for my Goldilocks version of 2e but always coming...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
"Strumpet" is just one of the many vocabulary words I learned from D&D in those days. Some years later, fresh out of college, I had a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to MGibster's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
For me it always comes back to the random harlot table. No other edition of D&D has offered me the opportunity to run into a wealthy...
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Flying Toaster reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General Whom keeps the torches lit? with Like.
What a great topic for a thread! I try not to put any lit torches or lanterns in truly abandoned places because it's too distracting...