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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with
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I've also activated the ticking clock component of the Ptolus setting, now that everyone's high enough of a level to potentially do... -
Ralif Redhammer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread What are you reading in 2025? with Like.
Just finished my re-read of Thud!, which is another Pratchett-at-his-peak Discworld novel. And sadly, the subject of...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread D&D General Charisma Checks gone Horribly Wrong - Can you Relate?.With social checks, I also ask myself the question of whether the two (or more) people involved have different desired outcomes. If the...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Quartz's post in the thread D&D General Charisma Checks gone Horribly Wrong - Can you Relate? with Like.
A key maxim is that you only roll when the result is in doubt. I gave this a lot of thought when trying to square how those fighters...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.With a campaign of that complexity, you really need to track time. I mean, I guess you could get away with not, but after a certain...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
My play by post campaign (going since 2006) has characters all over the world, side campaigns, split groups, etc., and if we didn't have...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.The funny thing is, I've been running a Cyberpunk Red campaign for over a year, and it pretty much requires an in-game calendar be kept...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Sacrosanct's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
The current 1e group I'm in right now is playing RAW. The DM really wants it that way. I even created a thread about it a while ago...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
I picture Gary furiously scribbling his thoughts for some of the sections in the older books on napkins and the backs of envelopes in...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.And yet, those conflicts, the shambolic, occultic nature of AD&D is a huge part of its appeal. There was a sense of mystery and lore...
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
I've learned never to make absolute statements about particular rules in AD&D. Whatever the specific rule is, you will always find some...
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.While I'm sure that there were tables that did use all the rules of 1e out there, I've never met one. My table certainly didn't.
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Ralif Redhammer reacted to kermit4karate's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
Played it. Loved it. We did NOT use all the rules.
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Ralif Redhammer replied to the thread What are you reading in 2025?.Back from vacation. While away, I re-read William Hope Hodgson's The Boats of the Glen Carrig, Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo, and...
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Just read The T in LGBT by Jamie Raines, a trans man from the UK, and found it very readable as well as useful for my work (as a GP; I...