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TheHand reacted to aramis erak's post in the thread What's Your Bucket List Campaign to Play? with
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⚀ Old Battlestar Galactica. Including the comics and novels, in a decent system; Cortex Plus or Savage Worlds come to mind. With a... -
TheHand replied to the thread What is your favourite character type, (prof, class etc) And why?.My preferences tend to revolve around 2 types: a heart-of-gold scoundrel who has a lot of versatile tricks but NO magic powers. Or a...
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The core character types you need are: Warrior Leader/internal or moral support Mage/techie Sneak/infiltrator/thief Face It is not an...
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The second I played was Traveller. The second I bought was FASA Star Trek.
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I went through three role-play games and rather quick succession. We started with dungeons of dragons, a mashup of BX, BECMI, and ADND...
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My brothers and I started with BECMI when my parents bought us the Basic Set. We played that for years before we discovered AD&D...
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So OD&D was first but I never could figure out how to play it (so not sure if that counts). Followed by 1 game of AD&D and 1 game of...
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Started in '82-83. First one I got to play was one a 'big kid' (probably 10) had, so undoubtedly B/X (unless they had an old Holmes set...
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I think the name “thief” Carrie’s a lot of baggage which is why modern takes use rogue or spy etc… I view the archetype as a character...
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Thieves exist in D&D because of these guys. Who happen to be both thieves and warriors. (also one is a wizard's apprentice too, which...
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TheHand reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers with Like.
I've always hated the term "adventurer" because the word actually means "tourist" and is most closely translated as "danger tourist" or...
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Which presents kind of an ethical challenge, for me, as far as any proposed game's content and framing. I definitely want my explorers...
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in my mind it’s the difference between the Indiana Jones films and the Lord of the Rings books. With Indy films we ride the red line...
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TheHand reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana with Like.
I think these triangulate a large part of the issue. Generally speaking, running out of rations or lamp oil* is something that typically...
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TheHand reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread Resource Management, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Rations and Love Mana with Like.
It depends on the type of game. If the game is about survival in post apocalyptic wasteland where resources in the game world are...