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  1. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E Judges Guild Character Classes for OD&D/AD&D?

    I'm afraid I can't help you either. A quick look through some likely candidates only resulted in an UFA "Demonist" in Field Guide to Encounters Vol. 1 (1982). Not the same, I know, and there must still be a Demon class according to the UFA list (e.g., here at The Acaeum).
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    What is the single best science fiction novel of all time?

    Use of Weapons, by Iain M. Banks.
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    What is the single best fantasy novel of all time?

    Jack Vance, the Lyonesse trilogy
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    That has always been my thinking as well. However, my problem here has always been that the ingundi perhaps differs too much from the MM1 succubus and the one in Eldritch Wizardry (listed in between the type IV and the type V, by the way!) - the difference in Hit Dice being a main concern...
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    Well, it isn't in MC4 as far as I know, although it does appear in MC8. As it does, rather intriguingly, in the index on page 157 of Monster Manual II, with page 156 stating that: "The index includes all official creatures (as of December, 1982) published in this volume as well as MONSTER...
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  8. ilgatto

    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    Heh, definitely. And I'm not mentioning MC7 and MC9 in this regard - and certainly not MC8. Come to think of it, the latter may well explain why I would like a Lost World Appendix (because, um, dinosaurs). :D By the by, a quick www search didn't lead to me finding my supposed source, although...
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    Ah, yes. I copied the image from the Greyhawk Adventures hardback. My phrasing was a bit off. Sorry about that, not a native speaker and all that.
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    I'm pretty sure that the renaming is the case. I've got a note in my own write-up of the ingundi, part of which reads: Historical Note: The Case of the Lost Devils The ingundi used to be called incubus before Patricia Pulling and BADD (...). Fortunately, the staff at TSR proved a tad sloppy in...
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    Actually..., re ingundi and succubi: Dunno where I read this, but the renaming seems to have been for reasons of Mrs. Pulling.
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  13. ilgatto

    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    Absolutely. Just musings. And wouldn't it have been nice to have all such monsters in MC3 and the dinosaurs pulled out for an MC4 Lost World Appendix? Sabre-tooths, Tarzan, great apes, axebeaks, Pellucidar? What's not to like? But perhaps too late for that (sabre-tooths in MC1) and too much...
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    AD&D 2E Looking back at the Monstrous Compendia: the MC appendices, Monstrous Manual, and more!

    True that. Which is a bit of a shame, really, for there were lots of weird and wonderful monsters by Ed Greenwood available at the time - the magebane, xantravar, scythetail, and quezzer from Dragon 140; the lock lurker, lybbarde, metalmaster, and serplar from Dragon 139; the xaver from Dragon...
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    AD&D 1E Random Wilderness Encounters (Stonewater to, um... Carse) (Updated)

    ¡Hola! L’histoire se répète, as we say in my neck of the woods ever since it fell out of fashion to quote… never mind. So I decided to substitute the gremlins in F’Chelrak’s Tomb for a crypt thing that would “teleport PCs to the end of the world”, on a roll of “00” on percentile dice just to...
  16. ilgatto

    D&D General The Original Reason for Spell Components: Balancing Bad Jokes

    Interesting post! It has actually solved a lot of questions I now realize I had (fleece!) - and then some didn't even know I had. :) The following probably don't classify as 'bad jokes' as per OP's definition, but they (as well as the Friends thing - ESPECIALLY THE FRIENDS THING) have always...
  17. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E Judges Guild Character Classes for OD&D/AD&D?

    ROFL. I really wasn't expecting an answer to that! :ROFLMAO: Edit: Do you need an airstrip to roll that?
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    AD&D 1E Judges Guild Character Classes for OD&D/AD&D?

    If anything, I suppose one could wonder what a d120 looks like.
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    AD&D 1E Judges Guild Character Classes for OD&D/AD&D?

    I suppose the WITCH could well be the OD&D Witch class in The Dragon 5. Hold on... it's more likely the one in Witches Court Marshes (JG, 1982) "The Idiot" or perhaps the Jester from The Dragon 3 for the BUFFOON? I thought the VALKYRIE could be in Shield Maidens of Sea Rune, but no. As to...
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