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Flying Toaster reacted to Keith Langley's post in the thread ToV Other than "It's not made by WotC", what's the elevator pitch for Tales of the Valiant? with
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2024 and ToV were worked on over the same year, and came out at the same time, both being revisions of 2014. In many ways ToV is the... -
Flying Toaster reacted to PaulW41's post in the thread ToV Other than "It's not made by WotC", what's the elevator pitch for Tales of the Valiant? with Like.
Here is how I look at it... 1) The base rules are 99% 5e (not 5.5e or 2024). So if you have a bunch of 5e books, they directly port...
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Flying Toaster reacted to jolt's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
At one point or another, we tried to run most of the rules RAW, but many got abandoned. In some cases, it didn't come up often...
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Flying Toaster reacted to mamba's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
maybe he should have, chances are we would have gotten more streamlined rules… I never even attempted to play RAW, while reading the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES! with Like.
A recent discussion had me thinking about a few truisms that I often discuss when I do my deep dives into D&D history. If you ask four...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Horwath's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
heh, we had similar experience with out DM in one campaign where he designed 4 custom magic items, that were cool but essentially not...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Staffan's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I don't know if that's "a thing fighter players like" or just a consequence of specialization being how a fighter makes number go up. At...
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Flying Toaster reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I do think it made a point though. The swords broke because it was a narrative turning point. A weapon breaking should have reason and...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
Incorrect. AI slop is an excellent way to describe the massive onslaught of low quality plagiarised crap filling YouTube, Kindle, search...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
This. So much this. I probably have an essay on this somewhere (don't I always), but this is exactly right. The reason that Gygax was...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Agamon's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
Not wrong. Also, most of his "playing wrong" rants were really "stop using 3rd party rules" rants.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread Will the complexity pendulum swing back? with Like.
As I always say, if Gygax writes something you disagree with ... don't worry and keep reading. He'll contradict himself soon enough-...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D General Weapons should break left and right with Like.
I read the entire Elric series and Stormbringer never broke. And apparently, all Anduril needs to be repaired is a 9 iron.
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Flying Toaster reacted to CreamCloud0's post in the thread D&D General Charisma Checks gone Horribly Wrong - Can you Relate? with Like.
i'd rather rely on social skill checks with a chance of players zero effort roll-playing than straight up ignore what characters are...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Eyes of Nine's post in the thread TSR Temple of Elemental Evil - Waterside Hostel with Like.
I assume this is an artist self-portrait, following some typical art history type logic, in particular because he is breaking the 4th...