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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?.Regardless of edition, I always assumed that all soldiers and guards were at least 1st or 2nd level fighters, with officers of level... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with
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IME dragons were more a mid to high level opponent. At low levels you'd usually be running/evading if you saw evidence of one in a... -
Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome.On another forum someone was comparing and contrasting their experiences playing with friends as opposed to organized play in Friendly...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome.Yes, we lived in a very small town and went to a fairly small school, so our groups were schoolmates and friends. D&D was our main...
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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.
A lot of this resonated with me. I bet you were playing with friends, right? From the neighborhood or school? I think it's more common...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Pamphylian's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with Like.
And the Joys of At Least Occasional "Simulationism" There's an approach to rule-making that shows up in a few places in D&D 5e (and...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome.It is always interesting to read stories about how different tables played the same game back in the day. In my main AD&D 1E group...
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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.
I'm not entirely sure about "many people," as I would argue you would need very small values of "many" for that to be correct. But...
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Flying Toaster reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Single class Assasin PCs were not common in games I played, but Half-Orc Fighter/Assasins were very common. They tried the "oh I am a...
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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 Like.
One big fighter advantage is that most other classes were not combat balanced against them. In original OD&D the three classes seemed...
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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.
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...