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fuindordm reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with
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I haven't posted an essay in a while (I've been writing a lot recently, but, you know ... stuff I have to do), but two recent threads... -
fuindordm replied to the thread D&D General Combat Against Player Engagement: A Systemic Challenge.Interesting essay. I can imagine a system where each player has a "react token" that they can spend on a menu of minor actions out of...
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In this issue, Ian Livingstone discusses a new Dungeons and Dragons computer game (cartridge) released for the Atari 2600, the elite...
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fuindordm replied to the thread AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?.I think the effort needed to systemize the XP for monsters ub AD&D is disproportionate to the benefit, and a source of "false accuracy"...
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fuindordm reacted to kigmatzomat's post in the thread AD&D 2E Edition Experience - Did/Do you Play AD&D 2E? How Was/Is It? with Like.
So my overall experiences I kind-of-sort-of played BECMI in that we rolled dice and attempted to do things based on what we thought...
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One of my favorite D&D supplements is the 2e Vikings Campaign Sourcebook (part of the Historical Reference series). David Cook did a...
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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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fuindordm reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be? with Like.
Sooooo...why does a new class need to support subclasses at all? There's no reason why one base class can't have five subclasses while...
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fuindordm 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.
THAC0 was a bit of a simplification from the tables with their repeating 20s. Most players clearly got the hang of descending AC and...
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fuindordm reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) What should the 15th Class be? with Like.
To balance that out it would seem there should be 4 Strength martials, 3 Dexterity martials, and 3 Constitution martials, or something...
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fuindordm reacted to DrunkonDuty's post in the thread Fans of long series of big novels, sound off! with Like.
Rivers of London is a big series, 9 novels, 3-4 novellas, half a dozen graphic novels. Lots of fun. I've just started a re-read of the...
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fuindordm replied to the thread Fans of long series of big novels, sound off!.Robin Hobb's "Realm of the Elderlings" series that started with Assassin's Apprentice is pure gold (but I haven't read the last trilogy...
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fuindordm replied to the thread D&D General I'm a Fighter, not a Lover: Why the 1e Fighter was so Awesome.This was one of the biggests shifts in the game experience between 1e/2e and later editions. When spellcasters no longer needed to fear...
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fuindordm replied to the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES!.I don't think I ever played RAW. As a teenager, we didn't master the rules, ignored things we didn't understand fully or that were too...
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fuindordm replied to the thread AD&D 1E Snarf's Challenge: Was it Possible to Play 1e RAW? SHARE YOUR STORIES!.My interpretation of p.65 is that if a spellcaster begins a combat round adjacent to a melee combatant then they should not even attempt...