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The Soloist replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.I’m reading the DMG as I am playing solo. Everything is burried and renamed. I have POD books, so I’m highligthing the important parts... -
The Soloist replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.As wargamers who played hex & chits games before AD&D 1e, we did play a few sessions with weapon speed, weapon vs armor and segments...
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The Soloist 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
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I've learned never to make absolute statements about particular rules in AD&D. Whatever the specific rule is, you will always find some... -
The Soloist 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
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I've argued before that while 1e is not an example of, um, great design in terms of rules accessibility ... ...there is something to be... -
The Soloist reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
So…actual AD&D 1e with the original rulebooks. Never played it, wouldn’t ever try to. I had the rulebooks. I wouldn’t be able to figure...
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The Soloist reacted to John Dallman's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
I think - at least for the groups I've played in - one of the reasons it worked was that it wasn't very prescriptive about the kind of...
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The Soloist reacted to nevin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
lol same. But to be fair the rules said all the rules were up to DM. So not using them was part of the rules.
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The Soloist reacted to Incenjucar's post in the thread Hasbro Opens New Wizards of the Coast Video Game Studio in Montreal to Support D&D Franchise with Like.
Cheaper than Seattle, and we're drowning in tech companies. Main reason I'm not in Quebec myself is that they treat their nurses...
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The Soloist reacted to GarrettKP's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books with
Wow.
The two alternate covers with the text. -
The Soloist reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread Hasbro Opens New Wizards of the Coast Video Game Studio in Montreal to Support D&D Franchise with Like.
Yup, there is pretty good research behind too many products meaning that people buy less than they would otherwise: Say, for example...
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The Soloist reacted to môrgondír's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
Most of my goodwill comes from nostalgia, and from pretty much everything ancillary to the rules themselves, things like the artwork, or...
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The Soloist reacted to CleverNickName's post in the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It? with Like.
This thread is eternal! I don't know what it says about the edition itself or our nostalgia regarding it, but this thread gets necro'd...
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The Soloist reacted to aco175's post in the thread AD&D 1E What is the cost of one night at an Inn? with Wow.
I noticed the new 5e box set just has gold and nothing else. Might be to keep things simple or to use the gold cardboard chits, but it...
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The Soloist reacted to MonsterEnvy's post in the thread Hasbro Opens New Wizards of the Coast Video Game Studio in Montreal to Support D&D Franchise with Like.
D&D 4e from memory released a product generally every month. Which I guess was too fast for each product to properly get it’s time.
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The Soloist replied to the thread AD&D 1E Edition Experience: Did/Do you Play 1E AD&D? How Was/Is It?.We played it a lot between 1981 and 1984. It was great fun. Our GM was well read in history and we did the zeros to castle & land owners...