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Mannahnin reacted to Hriston's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with
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Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953/1961), by Poul Anderson, has a dwarf character, Hugi, who speaks in a Scottish dialect. -
Mannahnin reacted to CF07's post in the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien with Like.
Good point. As influential as THaTL is in D&D, though, I think it wasn't what made things shift, though. Hugi was early.
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Mannahnin replied to the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D.There seems to be a.... teensy-tiny earseeker-sized excluded middle here. :LOL: If increasing a single ability score from 16 to 18...
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Mannahnin reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Yeah, its either spotlight-hogging in disguise, or just contrarianism.
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Mannahnin reacted to Keldryn's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with
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After reading so many good things about it, I finally gave Shadowdark a try a few months ago. Our regular (mostly every other week) 5e... -
Mannahnin reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism with Like.
The examples the OP gives are not a problem. Bioessentialism becomes problematic when two things happen: 1. The essentialism is about...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands with Like.
"You don't need to know the castellan's name, but you 100% need a map of the general store" is ... idiosyncratic. It'll be interesting...
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Mannahnin reacted to coyote6's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
It didn't when it was first released; "Episode IV A NEW HOPE" was added when it was rereleased...
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Mannahnin reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D with Like.
People say that a lot, but the first Star Wars movie clearly had an opening crawl saying "Episode IV" which confused the heck out of me...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
Thinking about this, maybe "spellbooks" are permanent scroll objects that can't be used to cast spells directly from, but which can be...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread TSR Blast from the Past- How to Go Full Monty Haul in AD&D.And at 6' 11" tall, he's 2" short of crossing over into taking damage as a Large-sized creature, per the size rules in the Monster...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
So your proposed fix is intended to limit that? I'm confused. Well, nothing says that you can't have "scrolls" look like spellbooks or...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+] with Like.
What problem are you trying to solve with spellbooks? Shadowdark wizards who encounter scrolls can learn more spells, expanding the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands with Like.
TSR did a better job with the Keep on the Borderlands model of a hub plus adventuring site with Village of Homlett (even if Gygax goes...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands.Castle Amber and The Lost City are much-loved examples with great ideas that couldn't really fit into the 28-32 page format. Still...