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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].IMO that was one of 1e's biggest inherent design mistakes: not giving its monsters the benefits and bonuses their high stats in theory... -
Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].The extension to 25 was to give the numbers for things like Girdles of Giant Strength; and also helped if one wanted to give Giants and...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General D&D Evolutions You Like and Dislike [+].Easy: natural 20 always fails.
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Lanefan reacted to MGibster's post in the thread D&D General The $150,000 Question: How TSR Learned It Was Dying (And Why I Was in the Room) by Ken "Whit" Whitman with
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In the early days, long before Whitman arrived, I think there was a little bit of resentment from Gygax and TSR in general towards other... -
Lanefan reacted to Milieu's post in the thread D&D General Making a robust magic item buying system with Like.
I think there's a lot of interesting ground between magic mega mart and no commerce in magic items at all! In the real world, people...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Making a robust magic item buying system.What happens to be available for purchase at any given time/place should be every bit as random as what's found in their adventures...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General The $150,000 Question: How TSR Learned It Was Dying (And Why I Was in the Room) by Ken "Whit" Whitman.I suspect more would, at least some of the time, were the published adventures short self-contained modules rather than hardcover...
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Another good thing about Solo was that it did some decent seeding - having taken up and used a lot of established plot, it generously...
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Honestly, I don’t really see that. Han in Solo is much the same guy as he is in Star Wars and in the various prequel books I’m old...
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Lanefan reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread 6E Theory [+] For (hypothetical) 6e: Which arcane caster class should be the "simple" one? with Like.
Definitely want to level-lock those, although what level depends a lot on the edition. At this point it's more of a feat tax for humans...
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Lanefan reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What Do You Think Of As "Modern TTRPG Mechanics"? with Like.
For me, I simply prefer that mechanics represent something in the setting, as accurately as practically possible, as often as...
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Lanefan replied to the thread 6E Theory [+] For (hypothetical) 6e: Which arcane caster class should be the "simple" one?.Always-on waterbreathing and flight seems a bit much, particularly at low-mid level, in terms of how easily it negates some common...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General The $150,000 Question: How TSR Learned It Was Dying (And Why I Was in the Room) by Ken "Whit" Whitman.They're repeat customers every time they buy an adventure module. That's where early TSR blundered into getting it right and later TSR...
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Lanefan reacted to TerraDave's post in the thread D&D General The $150,000 Question: How TSR Learned It Was Dying (And Why I Was in the Room) by Ken "Whit" Whitman with Like.
If you can't access Facebook, its pretty much (now) all in the OP. In any case, fits everything else we have heard about TSR's...
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Lanefan replied to the thread D&D General Making a robust magic item buying system.A good item buying (and selling!) system requires the DM to go through and price every magic item on the list individually, with each...