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Last time I ran a game for kids under 12 they both said at one point they were trying to get their PCs killed. Understand that it was... -
You'd be surprised...
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Nikosandros reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with
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One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators... -
Nikosandros reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
Minor correction, here: Gary was in the process of moving to California in mid-1982. According to Flint Dille in his book The...
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Nikosandros reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In '82? Absolutely not. Gary didn't (edit, correction) move into the mansion for another year, and he didn't hire Lorraine until '85...
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Nikosandros reacted to Warpiglet-7's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
I am a big Gygax fan generally. But am so glad D&D survived to the present. Like 5e…but am most grateful it is not “the end.” It...
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Nikosandros reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
Most folks don't remember or maybe just don't know how stunning the growth of TSR's fiction program was in the late 1980s and early...
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Nikosandros reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
The fiction line suffered some bloat in the mid-1990s, to be sure, like all the company lines, and TSR would have done better with...
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Nikosandros reacted to Alzrius's post in the thread D&D 1E Favorite Obscure Rules from TSR-era D&D with Like.
Resurrecting this thread with a notation that ultravision did, contrary to popular belief, make it into AD&D 2E (sort of): see the ring...
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Nikosandros reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR with
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I choose to believe that Masons must defeat each other in single combat to ascend in rank, as per 1E PHB rules. -
Yhe AC spread in 5E is exactly the same as in 2E: 30 is -10, 20 is 0, 10 is 10. It's just flipped around.
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Nikosandros reacted to mamba's post in the thread Chaosium Names New CEO, Mike Mearls Departs Company with Like.
I’ll keep an eye out for what he is doing where he lands, but I am more interested in what he does on his patreon than with his...
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Dragon Publishing released Dragon #93 in January 1985. It is 100 pages long and has a cover price of $3.00. This issue features world...
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The Quickstart has now had two different adventures as they keep switching it out every year. The current Quickstart has the Sinking...
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Nikosandros reacted to Von Ether's post in the thread Chaosium Names New CEO, Mike Mearls Departs Company with Like.
I hear you but then decades later I saw this and was sold on its Swedish cousin, Dragonbane.