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Nikosandros reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What Do You Call This Popular Beverage? with
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It's been very challenging for us in the off-brand diacetylmorphine business. -
Nikosandros replied to the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized.The lack of the original version makes the whole preservation angle a bit iffy, IMO.
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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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TSR was very much a trial-by-fire sort of workplace, where you were challenged quickly and expected to step up and learn multiple jobs... -
Nikosandros reacted to JLowder's post in the thread D&D General The First Demise of TSR: Gygax's Folly with Like.
In the 80s and 90s there were other companies where you could work full time--West End, GDW, Chaosium, eventually White Wolf, and so on...
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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...
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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 Like.
One of the constants at TSR, no matter who owned and ran the company, was the inability to deal fairly or constructively with creators...
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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 Haha.
I choose to believe that Masons must defeat each other in single combat to ascend in rank, as per 1E PHB rules.
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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.