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Marc17 reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil? with
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I just see this as a needlessly stupefying take on Chaos. Chaos does not need to be so utterly enslaved to whim that it cannot... -
Marc17 replied to the thread AD&D 1E What is the best way to generate ability scores for 1e AD&D?.Similar, although sometimes it would also be roll up three characters using that method, pick one.
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Marc17 replied to the thread D&D 5E (2024) Building A Contemporary Fantasy Setting For 5.5E.Last month there was a Faerun '68 thread about updating Forgotten Realms to a more modern time as inspired by the Blades '68 KS. The...
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Marc17 replied to the thread D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk: The Shield Lands.I did my own read through of Appendix N some years ago. I just went to the used book stores and looked for authors I had never heard of...
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Marc17 replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.That's similar to what we all did in 1E but we standardized on 1XP/level/day. Then come modifers for things like traveling, visiting new...
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Marc17 replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.In 1E it took an amount of time to memorize spells. 1st level starting at 15 minutes per spell and then on up IIRC. So, replenishing...
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Marc17 replied to the thread D&D General How do you do smart chaotic evil?.Build up a reputation of not-evil and not-chaotic so you can blow it on something big.
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Marc17 replied to the thread D&D General Did you realize The Forgotten Realms is the most written fantasy world ever?.As per the Wikipedia list of FR Novels I made a quick count of 351 but some of the anthologies might have been counted twice. Then you...
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Marc17 replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.More like a small Silk Road type city that blatantly exploits trade traffic in order to just survive. They canonically have no animal...
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Marc17 replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.I thought it would be good to thrown them in as they don't have the usual fixation on fairies, vampires, and werewolves that most Urban...
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Marc17 replied to the thread WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting.Urban fantasy is a literary genre that is typically modern(ish) setting with magical creatures. eg Buffy, VtM, Anita Blake books, etc...
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Marc17 reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread Melf's Guide to Greyhawk cover by Jeff Easley revealed at Gary Con with Like.
Not up there with Easley's classics, but not a bad painting. Neat visualization of what I'm going to guess is a Cloak of Displacement...
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Marc17 replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Initiative and surprise are a thing, but although we did go through a multitude of different alternative systems, by far the most common...
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Marc17 reacted to Ralif Redhammer's post in the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D with Like.
Our solution back in the day was to just use the rules from BECMI D&D. Probably still the best way to do it, in my opinion. I would...
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Marc17 replied to the thread D&D General D&D 3.5 - splatbook power creep or no?.Ya, it was a decent guideline. Obviously pretty easy to break even for mundane items if taken that every possible things is...