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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with
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One big fighter advantage is that most other classes were not combat balanced against them. In original OD&D the three classes seemed... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
No, I meant how they were handled and how it went down. Let's create this one monster to get a players! Now that we did this one...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
This is true. Which is why I always try to write something about it in the disclaimers. It's in this one- -As always, if you get five...
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Flying Toaster reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Something that's being lost here, and I played and DM'd AD&D from the very beginning, is that people back then used house rules and...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e?.My old AD&D groups never really settled on a consistent method. I think we sometimes used Method I (4d6, drop lowest, arrange as...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e?.I have seen suggestions that the UA barbarian and cavalier might have worked for one-on-one play, in which the DM does not have to worry...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
In 1E? So Spider Climb off the Defensive roll, Read Magic automatically... what were his Offensive and Misc spells? Not that it's...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
Adding to the chorus on how dependent illusionists are both on DM goodwill and reasonable adjudication and on player creativity. If...
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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.
Best part of Dragon magazine, for my group. Some of them (like the Cloistered Cleric) really were almost useless as PCs, but most of...
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Flying Toaster reacted to fuindordm's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Randomness, lucky rolls and treasure drops, and exploiting luck to build your PC's legend were definitely part of the core game...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
We literally just had a lengthy conversation about how this isn't true in this thread. 🤷♂️ Also, they use the attack table of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Gary really seemed to like making character creation a gamble with "bonus rounds" for more prizes. Roll stats. Roll hit points. Roll...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
The existence of something like exceptional strength and XP bonuses for having high stats are the very opposite of game balance. They...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
The Cleric was long in this strange position of being, on paper, one of the strongest classes, but in practice, they got relegated to...