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Flying Toaster reacted to Rabulias's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with
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Unearthed Arcana was a mixed bag for us. The new weapons, armor, magic items, and spells were largely well-received, but the new races... -
Flying Toaster reacted to cbwjm's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
I'd forgotten that comeliness was a thing in UA, I think I saw that and opted against porting it into my 2e games. Back when we played...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
I loved the book (in theory). It was full of some really new, experimental things. In practice, not all of them were good- if used as...
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Flying Toaster reacted to LordBP's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with
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Well my book fell apart with little usage, so it was bad in that sense. :censored: -
Flying Toaster reacted to sevenbastard's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
The bad off the top of my head The cavalier is way overpowered and designed differently from all other classes. Comeliness is a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to francisca's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
I was .... 16 when it came out, and it made a big splash with some of the groups in my neck of the woods. My group never really used...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Nikosandros's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
I got into AD&D in 1986, so UA was already available. I bought it even before the DMG and basically used almost all of it back then...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
I loved it as a middle schooler, but mechanically, it's a trash fire, even moreso than the rest of 1E. It just became clear to us, even...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
There were NPC classes found in Dragon Magazines, but I don't recall any in the main books. And as you say, many who used those classes...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Distracted DM's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Yeah I believe a lot of the classes released in the 1e-era etc were intended as NPC-only, but understandably players see something cool...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pawsplay's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Well, they need someone to tell them.
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
For me, it’s more of a problem that a PC can’t counterspell it. I can wrap my head around the idea that it’s simply a different “spell”...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
Anyone can roll 1000 on 10d% when it comes to a skill or talent, and then be lucky again by ending up in an environment where that skill...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
There is no reason one could not make these exceptional people as characters. Also, if someone is exceptional and rare, I would imagine...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) NPCs, and the poverty of the core books with Like.
No,literally, if the game doesn't give you guidelines, it fails. There can be no assumption that the user will go find answers in...