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  1. Ulrick

    Things I learned early in Gaming that still apply to Real Life

    A couple years ago I went through a Halloween haunted house with some friends. One of my friends said to me "Stop treating this place like a dungeon!" Apparently, I was moving through the place too slowly, avoiding obvious places where "monsters" could jump out, checking places for "traps"...
  2. Ulrick

    criticism of the dungeons and dragons cartoon (spoilers)

    Which version of the DVD collection do you have? In my version, the last DVD has "Requiem" being read aloud as a radio broadcast by some of the people who did the voices for the show.
  3. Ulrick

    Do grognards have to be jerks?

    4e ruined my life. Therefore, it is my personal quest to warn others about the deficiencies of 4e so their lives won't get ruined, too. Sometimes, my zealotry rubs people the wrong way and I end up looking like a jerk. Sometimes, entire internet threads come crashing to a halt as I launch...
  4. Ulrick

    Happy Birthday: World's Hardest Gary Gygax Quiz

    90% on the first try. #7 and #9 stumped me. No google.
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    Your intro to RPGs

    I started when I was ten years old. But my older brother and his friends had been playing at least 4 years before that. I'd watch them play sometimes but they wouldn't let me join in. Once, I clipped some He-Man pictures from a coloring book on my brother's Dungeon Master's Screen just prior to...
  6. Ulrick

    Is 5th Edition a Real Thing?

    5e is like alcohol: It is both the cause, and solution to, all of D&D's problems. :lol:
  7. Ulrick

    Mallus Rediscovers AD&D

    June 2006 (5 years ago!). Yeah, Vecna's 2.5 page stat-block... Fortunately there is a Mt. Zogon comic at the end to bring some levity. I just wonder how many DMs made Vecna easier to kill just because they didn't want to put up with keeping track everything -- especially if some of his minions...
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    Mallus Rediscovers AD&D

    I'm envious. I'm running 3.5e now, but I'd rather run AD&D 1e or 2e (or mash up of the two). But I just have to wait for my current campaign to end. Just three more months...
  9. Ulrick

    101 Video Game and RPG Names That You Could Give A Real Child

    5) Zelda - from well, The Legend of Zelda. 6) Tenser - from Greyhawk 7) Leomund - from Greyhawk 8) Rary - from Greyhawk 9) Robilar - from Greyhawk 10) Obmi - from Greyhawk if you want your kid to grow up running around and hitting people with hammers. but never Beek Gwenders of Croodle...
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    Editions in RPGs - and why we should embrace change

    Maybe people just don't want to spend money on another edition when the old one perfectly suits them fine. Maybe they've invested a lot of time and money into the current edition and simply don't want to see their old stuff become obsolete because they can't find players to game with. Maybe...
  11. Ulrick

    Winding down the campaign

    For the last campaign I wound down, I played "Into the West" by Annie Lennox at the table while I summarized what the PCs did at the end of their careers. ‪The Return of the King Soundtrack-19-Into the West‬‏ - YouTube
  12. Ulrick

    Why is bigger always better?

    Size really doesn't matter, its what you do with it. ;) ---- It game terms, I think its an argument of realism vs. abstraction. Daggers and Greatswords are deadly weapons. Greatswords can cut through armor easier, daggers can slip into chinks in the armor better. Either way, the person is...
  13. Ulrick

    Peace and social cooperation in D&D.

    If I have to explain it then you didn't get the reference.
  14. Ulrick

    Tyler Durden as an intelligent magical item?

    But Tyler Durden wasn't a Demilich in the movie either... ;)
  15. Ulrick

    Peace and social cooperation in D&D.

    In the grim darkness of the near present there is only war... ;)
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    Tyler Durden as an intelligent magical item?

    I played in a 3.5e game where one of the characters found a regular skull and started talking to it. We cast detect magic on it but found nothing, and we were at low level. Eventually, most of us just forgot he had it. Several sessions later we're in a dungeon, and suddenly the skull levitates...
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    Tyler Durden as an intelligent magical item?

    PC with Tyler Durden Item: HA HA HA !!! Other PCs: What's so funny? Why did that guy give you a free meal and tell us to avoid the lobster bisque? And why is your face all bruised? PC with Tyler Durden Item: I'm not supposed to talk about it. Other PCs: What? Tyler Durden Item: You fell...
  18. Ulrick

    How does interbreeding work in your campaign?

    Sometimes things get explosive... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXzpoH6m2c
  19. Ulrick

    D&D 4E What's so bad about 4th edition? What's so good about other systems?

    4e basically goes against almost my entire gaming philosophy. I like a system that can be tweaked with minimal effort, character classes that are distinct (in 4e everybody has "supernatural" powers), where rewards are earned and not just expected, and that builds upon earlier traditions. After...
  20. Ulrick

    A D&D Edition... into a SINGLE picture... (?)

    The White Boxed Set 1974 The Holmes Edition 1979 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Basic/Expert/Masters/Companion/Immortal D&D Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Pathfinder Dungeons & Dragons 4.0 The Old School Renaissance
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