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Flying Toaster reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with
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Lethality was one of those things that saw a lot of the house rules. If you didn't play with henchmen (or large parties in general)... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
The key here os that Coromyr is Greenwood's Arthuriana, based on a pop version of the French chivalry tradition, while the Moonshaes are...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun with Like.
Oooof that's not great. Very interesting but not great! Especially as the Ottoman Empire... doesn't come from the middle east, it comes...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
Maybe I'm misremembering Maliszewski's take (here?), but I know some versions of that argument (like Delta's) absolutely don't focus...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?.The 1E race/class restrictions seem completely arbitrary to me. Elves and half-elves could be mages but not illusionists, while for...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?.Some reasons to not play 1E: Ability Score Anarchy The attribute system was an absolute mess. EGG actually recommended four generous...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Keefe the Thief's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
I would never play any edition that contains the following sentence (or a variation thereof): "A "no" indicates that the race cannot...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
I assume for your second sentence, you mean "why you would", rather than "why you wouldn't", so I'm going to roll with that. I would...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
I mean, IF those categories were actually consistent and well-defined, then sure. The big problem with them was that they weren't. They...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
Yes, I do agree that this is....difficult to understand. Because, in simple terms, this argument reads like this: "The rules were bad...
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Flying Toaster reacted to payn's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with
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Flying Toaster reacted to Remathilis's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
Gun to head, I would play 2nd edition over first edition every time.
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Flying Toaster reacted to billd91's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Like.
I personally wouldn't want to play 1e straight up. But I would play 2e with some elements of 1e hanging on or mixed in (particularly the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Haha.
If every grognard who says he plays by Gary's rules actually played with Gary Gygax, Lake Geneva would have been like Woodstock. I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to MGibster's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with Haha.
If you say Gygax three times while looking into a mirror he will appear and run you through Tomb of Horrors.