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  1. Ulrick

    What if the PCs were literally invulnerable?

    No matter what you do, you have to use this song at some point... Princes of the Universe--Queen Perhaps followed by "Gimmie the Prize." :)
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    Help! Advice for things to include in a low-level AD&D adventure

    Roll up a random dungeon from the back of the AD&D DMG. :)
  3. Ulrick

    Keeping the players from looking around the screen

    Warn them one more time to stop. If they don't, then boot the offending player(s). Life is too short to be annoyed by players who want to cheat.
  4. Ulrick

    5E on the horizon?

    I heard they're going to announce 5e at Gen Con this year. And that WotC, White Wolf, and Games Workshop are going to merge into one super gaming company. All current employees in each will be let go, and in house operations will shift somewhere overseas, maybe China or India. This company...
  5. Ulrick

    Would you pay to play?

    Aside from the occasional wargame, CCG, or boardgame, I find gaming stores incredibly lousy places to run an RPG. I can see the logic for a store charging per table, you are using their space. And, after all, there's usually a low fee to enter a CCG or a Warhammer tournament. But to play D&D or...
  6. Ulrick

    Mearls: The core of D&D

    Maybe Mearls had an "axe to grind." :p
  7. Ulrick

    9 and three quater year old joke.

    Oh gawd! Make it stop! -- After the vampire Strahd kills his victim in his castle, who cleans up the mess? His bhutler. What do orcs and Kermit the Frog have in common? "It's not easy being Green..." Why do Beholders love to watch CGI special effects in movies? For the eye-candy...
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    Mearls: The core of D&D

    D&D 5th Edition, of course! ;) They were asking questions like this in Dragon while they were playtesting 3e. And they did the nearly the same thing right before 4e.
  9. Ulrick

    Question for the Old Schoolers

    An article by Roger E. Moore in Dragon #228 contains a passage that pretty much sums up my encounters with FR in the 1990s. At the time I was running a Greyhawk Campaign: "Man, this City of Greyhawk campaign bites. You people should dump this stupid world. It's dead anyway. Let's a get a Realms...
  10. Ulrick

    Why is D&D for sale?

    Okay, I bought D&D back from Milhouse for $5.
  11. Ulrick

    #400: Jesse Decker's EnWorld embarrassment...

    I can't believe that happened about 9 years ago... I still have Dragon #300. And yeah, it was a bit of a let down. But back then the mag seemed to take on a more darker and edgier tone anyway. I actually held off buying the Book of Vile Darkness for awhile. I gathered plenty of "evil" ideas...
  12. Ulrick

    My DM'ing has gotten worse over the years, not better

    Kzach: Do you ever think your problem might be with your players? It sounds like you are studying to be a great DM. But sometimes all of that advice online and it books falls short to players who are just game-wreckers. It only takes a couple in a group to cause things to fall apart before the...
  13. Ulrick

    [forked thread] What constitutes an edition war?

    The Edition War is waged all around us on the Internet and in real life, often at our FLGSs and the game table. At its core, it's all about "gaming purity and the fear of the Other." :confused: It started (as far as I know) when 2e came out and gets sparked again and again with each iteration...
  14. Ulrick

    Things you find on the road?

    Things you find on The Road, huh? The initial sense of depression and dread that turns to boredom because The Road is so long... ;)
  15. Ulrick

    Bury Elminster Deep (Sample chapter)

    Jar-Jar gets turned into a cloud of ash bound together by the Force...
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    A D&D Edition... into a SINGLE picture... (?)

    OD&D/AD&D AD&D 2nd Edition D&D 3rd Edition D&D 4th Edition D&D 5th Edition? sorry for the large pic sizes.
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    A D&D Edition... into a SINGLE picture... (?)

    Whoops... Double Post... see page 2.
  18. Ulrick

    Bury Elminster Deep (Sample chapter)

    Drizzt is okay in my book. I like the earlier stories until around Passage to Dawn when my interest in him started to wane. As far as I know, 4e really didn't do much. Salvatore's sequence of Drizzt novels continue unabated. Fans demanded more Drizzt Do'Urden after the Icewind Dale Trilogy...
  19. Ulrick

    Squire to Knight

    Somewhere in all of this, both of you need to listen to a lot of Wagner: YouTube - ‪Wagner - Parsifal Act I Prelude_1‬‏
  20. Ulrick

    Feeling bad or emotional problems - Play less or more?

    I've had those thoughts, too. And at times I did think I was a bad player, but then I soon discovered that some of the people I wargamed with cheated constantly (amazing what happens when you actually buy the rules rather than rely only on a cheat sheet). And then I kicked myself for putting up...
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