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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines with
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Yeah, this parallels a lot of my experience. I didn't live anywhere near a game store -- we got all of our D&D stuff either through the... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Dragon Reflections #98 with Like.
TSR really short changed Gamma World all around. It was clearly their second most popular game and they just dribbled out support for...
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Reviewing products in the house organ magazine had to be a fraught thing. Not only were you reviewing the products of the people signing...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot? with Like.
I havent used the Egg of Coot, but it exists in my 5e Greyhawk setting to the far north coast of the Flanaess subcontinent. See the map...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines.The first Best of Dragon volume in particular was my first glimpse of 70’s D&D, as I mostly played B/X and AD&D 1E with fellow teenagers...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines with Like.
It was a pure dose of early D&D madness, unfiltered (presumably) by Gygax's version of events. Not only do we get an accounting of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General How Much D&D Stuff Is There Anyway? Part 3: Magazines with Like.
Imagine is really good. The golden rod pull-out adventures they included in the middle of most issues were great, and I still have...
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Flying Toaster replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #98.I suppose this issue was an early example of iconic monsters getting buffed with extra attacks, lair actions, and such, which would show...
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Yes, it is "damning with faint praise." But I also felt like it was an honest review, rather than Bunnell grasping for something good to...
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I always liked the explanation in Dickinson's The Flight of Dragons. That dragons can't sleep on something flammable, and gold is a soft...
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Dragon Publishing released Dragon #98 in June 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features dragons...
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Flying Toaster reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread D&D General Whom has used the Egg of Coot? with
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In my never-run planning for a Blackmoor campaign, I was going to have the Egg of Coot being a space-warp that had some sort of... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Kurotowa's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
It's funny. The whole reason for "It's not magic, it's psionics!" is John W. Campbell. As the powerful editor of Astounding magazine, he...
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Flying Toaster reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread AD&D 2E Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play AD&D 2E? How Was/Is It? with Like.
2e, without any of the optional rules, is 1e but rewritten to be understandable. The utility is very much there. We played an near...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 2E Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play AD&D 2E? How Was/Is It? with Like.
How so? When I got 2E I found THAC0 a welcome rationalization and convenience compared to the combat matrices I learned on from BECMI...
