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  1. Ath'kethin

    D&D General Folks Who Came Back With 5E: Did You Stay with 5E?

    I think I'm exactly who you're looking for; I started with 2e in 1994, played it obsessively (at one point running 3 campaigns and playing in 2-3 others). Switched to 3e and then 3.5 when they came out, though running only one game at a time (while occasionally playing in one or two others). I...
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    General DCC RPG thread

    You absolutely are, though. I'm still trying to work out how I want to implement some of those.
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    WHAMMAGEDDON 2024

    I spent almost a week in NYC amongst dozens, maybe hundreds of locations and carts playing Christmas music and didn't hear the song once. Then I arrived on an airplane in Portland, OR yesterday and the song started playing as we taxied to the gate after we landed. So I was out on Day 1. :confused:
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    D&D 2E Let's Read the AD&D 2nd Edition PHB+DMG!

    Interesting. I didn't know that bit. I guess I never double checked it any of my friends' '89 version PHBs.
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    D&D 2E Let's Read the AD&D 2nd Edition PHB+DMG!

    A change that I remember noticing is in the Dual Class characters section. The '89 version of my PHB says "There is no limit to the number of classes a character can acquire, as long as he has the ability scores and wants to make the change." It does note, however, that some classes have...
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    D&D General What is your most prized Dungeons and Dragons Product?

    For me it's ALQ4 - Secrets of the Lamp. This sourcebox from 1994 has seen more use than any other TTRPG product I've ever owned outside of core books.
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    Quick, while everyone is focused on the 5.24 PHB...

    The first TTRPG I ever played was Earthdawn, 1st Edition, in 1993. I still love the worldbuilding of it and the way the character options intrinsically interacted with the setting.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    The halfling's player fell asleep. (Step-daughter and her fiancé finally made it to our Sunday family game, so we could play for the first time in a month and a half. Then he fell asleep half way through and she just took over running his character in addition to her own).
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    Willow?

    I adapted a handful of items from the movie to 5e as part of the Sorcery Stop series I wrote for Kobold Press a few years ago. I filed of the serial numbers, but anybody who knows the film will recognize them. https://koboldpress.com/the-sorcery-stop-relics-of-the-lost-fey/
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    D&D (2024) Why aren't you using 5e 2024?

    Same reason I don't use D&D 2014; D&D isn't as good as Dungeon Crawl Classics.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Group gained yeti cleric companion
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Went shopping for cars instead 😓
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    What are you listening to?

    New Cure album just dropped. No need for anything else rn.
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Step-daughter couldn't make it. (so no game, since she and her fiancé represent 50% of the PCs)
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    D&D 2E On AD&D 2E

    Exactly! Doing so has never been a problem.
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    D&D 2E On AD&D 2E

    Born in '78, started playing D&D with 2nd Edition in 1994 when some friends at school asked if I wanted to play. This was a residential high school, so we all lived together in the same building, and we played D&D all the freakin' time - I'm talking I used to run 2 campaigns, each meeting once...
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    User Name and Avatars: Origin Stories

    My username comes from an NPC I created for an Al-Qadim campaign the better part of 30 years ago; it was an illithid from the tunnels in the al-Suqut Mountains outside the city of Ajayib. My avatar is Karl Waller's most excellent drawing of an urban ogre, which to me has always been the...
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    D&D (2024) Party Balance?

    I had exactly the same thought.
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    RPG Evolution: The Right to Archive

    Yes. As described in the foreword to the HackMaster "4e" Players Handbook, IIRC.
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    D&D General 50 years, 50 products (closed, see new thread)

    ALQ4 - Secrets of the Lamp. A treasure trove of lore on genies and the Inner Planes, especially the Plane of Fire.
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