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Flying Toaster reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D General Why do people like Alignment? with
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I like the idea of the cosmic wheel and a campaign where moral forces can be capitalized - a few creatures (outsiders) are... -
Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome.IIRC dwarves had bonuses to pick locks, find/remove traps, and poison saves, so they had at least a somewhat better chance of being a...
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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.
In 1E lower level thieves were not very good at any of that stuff anyway and if they tried to pick locks in 1980s era adventures at low...
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Flying Toaster reacted to CreamCloud0'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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if you don't want a healer to be an essential role in the party maybe stop resorting to lethal combat as your solution to all your... -
Flying Toaster reacted to haakon1's post in the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome with Like.
Same on much of this: Mostly humans & half elves. But half orcs, elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes were all there too. All 4 major...
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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.
It is interesting that you can easily dispense with any character role in a party but the healer with ease. I've seen parties with nary...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
1e MM Men entry page 66: "Normal men have from 1-6 hit points each." There are non-normal men with different HD entries on page 67...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?.Maybe I have been remembering it all wrong all these years. When I ran 1E I usually gave the human NPC opponents class levels, and the...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?.Huh... I could have sworn it was just a standard d8 HD for normal 2E humans. Maybe there were different stat blocks for different...
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Flying Toaster reacted to GreyLord's post in the thread AD&D 1E What was so bad about unearthed arcana 1e? with Like.
This is from AD&D. Use this as gospel. If they roll a character without these traits...reroll. 16 or above in at least one, just to...
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Flying Toaster reacted to plecostomus's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Thoughts on Infinite Staircase? with Like.
Later this month I am DMing for the first time with Infinite Staircase and the 2024 rules. I will let you know my thoughts in...a few...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Awesome to see you posting! I haven't seen you for ages. Pulsipher's skilled play is basically the same as what Gygax describes in his...
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Flying Toaster reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Agreed. It seems like a concession to the sorts of approach that Pulsipher criticises. I think it's interesting in that it shows that...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Good to interact with you again, pemerton! I completely agree that Gygax and Pulsipher are describing the same playing style. There is...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D General GMing and "Player Skill" with Like.
Some video game RPGs would be a good training module for GM on how to handle consequences of player actions, good and bad. Examples...