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Lanefan reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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It might go back to that old "player vs. DM" mindset...ya know, the mentality that they are going to somehow "beat the DM" and then "win... -
Lanefan reacted to overgeeked's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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It’s the defects that make the character. A lot of players lack a sense of…sportsmanship…for lack of a better word. They’ll endlessly... -
Lanefan reacted to not-so-newguy's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
I don't have to DM?! Yaaaay!
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction?.Dumping Wisdom is always the answer! Why? Because you get to let loose your inner gonzo idiot for as long as the character lasts. And...
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Lanefan reacted to AlViking's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with
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I tell myself to wake up because I refuse to roll for stats for exactly this reason; someone with a 3 stat should be impaired and I... -
Lanefan reacted to Shiroiken's post in the thread D&D General You Were Rolling Up a New Character, and Just Rolled a 3. What Is Your Reaction? with Like.
Having a singularly low ability score is fine, so long as you have some high ones to make up for it. This was why 3E had a "minimum...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General How do you navigate the forums?.Somebody's forum navigation went adrift? :)
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad.Indeed, but it's IME easier to adjust room descriptions on the fly than maps. Yes, all maps shoud do this if terrain is an...
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Lanefan reacted to Lakesidefantasy's post in the thread D&D General D&D Dungeon Map Design: Good and Bad with Like.
Yeah, you are preaching to the choir with me on that one. I think indicating the positioning of occupants supports a certain kind of...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D.??? I thought torches were good for 1 hour each. Or is that a 1e (as opposed to BX) thing?
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Lanefan reacted to TigerDude's post in the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D with Like.
Torches were bigger back in the day because humans were the default race. In AD&D there were entire classes you could only play as a...
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Lanefan reacted to Marc17's post in the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D with Like.
Well, another thing the game moved away from seems to have been the game I think the creators and early players were really exploring...
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Lanefan reacted to InVinoVeritas's post in the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D with Sad.
The true upshot of this is how D&D moved away from exploration-based mechanics in favor of combat-based mechanics. Tracking inventory...
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Lanefan reacted to Olgar Shiverstone's post in the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D with Like.
Torches and flasks of oil were staples in my early D&D days. Nothing like getting three torches deep into a dungeon and tying to decide...
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Lanefan reacted to SpellObjectEnthusiast's post in the thread D&D General What You're Missing with Torches in B/X D&D with Like.
As someone who regularly runs B/X, none of these bullet points are in the rules and all of them are pretty far removed from what I'd...