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JJML replied to the thread Exploring Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn.I've enjoyed these books quite a bit. Much stronger than the Sword Coast book from the early days of 5E and a better pair of books that...
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JJML replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #100.seriously. it's really rare for him to have a dog, especially in the early years of his contributions to the magazine. Roger Moore's...
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JIf memory serves me correctly, before 3e the covers rarely and only vaguely had anything to do with the internal contents of the magazine.
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JReading a couple of hundred articles in Dragon makes you realize how good Greenwood's material really is.
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JJML replied to the thread A Deep Dive into Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun.You're quite obsessed with declaring other people's opinions as "wrong" with you as being "right". Maybe the Forgotten Realms in a...
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JJML reacted to Yaarel's post in the thread A Deep Dive into Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun with
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Because English is mostly a nongendered language, any unnecessarily gendered noun sounds archaic. For example, I was surprised to... -
JJML replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #100.I totally ran a Druid/Ranger. When I was playing 1E, Rangers were far and away my favorite class (not a surprise as a big LotR fan) and...
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JJML replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #100.Greenwood's Pages From the Mages articles have held up very nicely, and this kind of writing is one of the reasons the Forgotten realms...
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JJML replied to the thread TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions.Guessing you're referring to the Jeff Easley covers of the Orange Spine version? Larry Elmore didn't do any AD&D 1E covers. I think all...
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JJML reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions with Like.
I grew up with B/X and 1E ... like many back then, we really ran a blend of the two. So that's really my vote: AB/X. If I could only...
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JJML replied to the thread What was your 2nd RPG?.B/X D&D was first for me, which melded into AD&D (we were kids: Basic, Expert, then Advanced made a sort of sense to us and we shoveled...
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JJML replied to the thread Dragon Reflections #99.There's a lot of fiction that haven't aged all that well or have problematic themes/scenes, along with knowing things about authors that...
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JJML reacted to SpellObjectEnthusiast's post in the thread Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun - First Impressions with Like.
This is why I see them more akin to Random Encounters. They can be inserted into an adventure with a wider overall play pattern as a...
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JJML reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun - First Impressions with Like.
I mean, yes, these are pretty much h designed for beer-and-pretzel games, or as options to pick up and run with zero prep. But the DMG...
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JJML reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun - First Impressions with Like.
I don't really mind it, as I've always worked in "epic destinies" with my players in D&D. Never getting into the specifics, so that the...