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Flying Toaster reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with
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EGG: "Humans have written all of human history through their actions, so we should model everything on humans and their ordinary human... -
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.
Naw. If you want to go Full Grognard, you have to stroke your beard and say, "AD&D? It was all downhill once they started releasing...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
That is basically the origin of alignment in 1974 OD&D. You get a list of creature types under each alignment (Law, Neutrality, Chaos)...
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Flying Toaster reacted to MGibster's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Bingo. The non-human species in most works of fiction are there because they serve some sort of narrative purpose and I feel as though...
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Flying Toaster reacted to SkidAce's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I hear you. Darmok and Jalad at Enworld.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I have been uncomfortable how D&D has portrayed some species for decades. Literally having evil versions of species you can recognise by...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Cadence's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
Had B2 open recently for some other quotes... Page 6: The background information for the players and how they compare to typical...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
This is one of the things I learned to appreciate about the racial classes from B/X. Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings have a few minimum...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.In a game with a humorous tone this could be a special power-up for halflings. “Whot’s that, eh? Necromancer and his skeleton...
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Flying Toaster reacted to MGibster's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
I think 2nd breakfast more than compensates the halfling for any penalties they might receive.
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I don't worry too much about species' populations in my settings, unless it is going to be a specific plot point (like they are on the...
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I think, in the '70s, when fantasy fiction was still pretty niche, creating a human-dominated world was just a natural assumption. No...
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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.
Sure, but if magic items that grant Wishes have the potential to wreck one's game (imagine that!), you can just...not have them show up...
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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.
Speaking of the rule for raising ability scores with Wishes, I've always wanted to know how that came to be. Was there really such a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
TBF some grognards and OSR fans point at Arduin and elsewhere as evidence that Mos Eisley cantina is a way a lot of folks played going...