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Mannahnin reacted to soviet's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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It's great when 'this is an unlikely extrapolation for purposes of satire' becomes 'oh no, yeah'. c.f. The Handmaid's Tale -
Mannahnin reacted to Velderan's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
The made up part of that movie is it would take until 2505 to get to that point.
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Mannahnin reacted to Scribe's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Yeah, there's a great Conan quote as well, but sometimes the gears turn. :LOL:
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Peter H. Wilson’s books on the Holy Roman Empire and on the Thirty Years War are amazing. Huge - each is more than 30 hours long - and...
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Just into Book 3, and it's been a little over a week since I got book 1. Also, I just read "This is How to Lose a Time War", which I...
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Mannahnin reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Huh. I never noticed that. He definitely doesn't get roasted for doing that the way Liefeld does. Of course, unlike Liefeld, Frazetta... -
Mannahnin reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
This is a consistent place where the game rules and worldbuilding mesh... poorly? Inexactly? Something along those line. There are any...
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Mannahnin reacted to Greg K's post in the thread D&D General How much Ars Magica is in Dungeons and Dragons 3e? with Like.
I do think that there is some Ars Magica influence, but it is in the switch to the unified resolution system (die roll + stat modifier +...
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Mannahnin reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General How much Ars Magica is in Dungeons and Dragons 3e? with Like.
There is also the dual stat adventure Black Monks of Glastonbury which has some 3e mechanics for doing Ars Magica in D&D. I believe the...
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Mannahnin reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General How much Ars Magica is in Dungeons and Dragons 3e? with Like.
My understanding is that while flexible verb noun casting was the big innovation, it also had levelled spells like D&D (just not vancian...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e?.IME dragons were more a mid to high level opponent. At low levels you'd usually be running/evading if you saw evidence of one in a...
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People talk about fighters having the best saves in AD&D a lot, but I think relatively few actually experienced it much. In AD&D...
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Mannahnin reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone want to play 1e? with Like.
It's hard to do apple to apples with the 2e-->3e transition, as the relative value of things changed. All* monsters got Con to their HP...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread Which 80s wargames and adventure games do you still play?.Battletech I've played again fairly recently. One of my closest gaming buddies bought into the most recent release, and we've tried...
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Mannahnin reacted to TheHand's post in the thread Which 80s wargames and adventure games do you still play? with Haha.
I still occasionally bust out BattleTech with some friends, but we don’t get to play it regularly. The last big adventure game I...