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Merric, I did a google search on this and came up with this post from your blog in 2012. seems this has come up before a few times One of my contentions about the D&D rules is that there are a number of areas where Gary Gygax failed to give a rule because it was in a previous edition of the...

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We May have not been RAW on this as well. Though I’m not sure the rules were clear on when you rolled. I think we played if you survived the effect you didn’t need to roll for all your gear. I do recall when someone targeted a specific weapon with disintegrate then they rolled on that table. I...

I noticed you again ignored the fact that I answered your statements that what I said as to what was done and found in 1e (except the flying throne of the gods which I said we recognised as not RAW and was a one shot which you keep harping on about - classic straw man stuff, well done). So you...

We did sometimes ignore the rules, the weapons vs armour table never got a look in, but what apart from the flying throne of the gods in the examples I gave? I answered all your accusations that we ignored the rules including saying where we found the Ring. So you saying we did with those...

Responding in order (sorry I’m not great at cutting and pasting) yes, there is a difference between people who picked up and played the game with their friends and people who didn’t (one group picked up and played the game wth their friends and presumably the others didn’t?) I’m not sure what...

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We rarely ignored the rules - some homebrew magic and monsters was about the extent - some of those 1e treasure hoards were extreme. We were just kids with unlimited time and we would grind hard, and we sure weren’t alone in the 80’s. I think G1-G3 had a couple of million gp in cash and multiple...

I played some crazy monty haul 1st edition stuff back in the day. Girdle of storm giant strength & Hammer of Thunderbolts, a ring of multiple (not just 3 how passe) wishes, battling hundreds of ogre magi, a flying throne of the gods, killed Vecna, Kas, I think I even killed Satan who was hiding...

I must have missed it. What game/edition are you talking about?

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totally disagree on good and evil being subjective, yes societies view of what is good and evil may change over time but ..... oops nearly got into an alignment argument, never mind. Walking away now.

As a matter of interest does anyone know if there is somewhere in this wonderful world wide web where someone has compiled all the D&D alignment descriptions? From OD&D thru to 5e? I am now intrigued and would quite like to read them all side by side.

I know he called his powers Lords of Chaos and Lords of Law but to me that appeared to be just a branding exercise. They always struck me as just two opposing almost LovecraftIan factions (Not as in tentacled and weird but as in uncaring and powerful), who were not particularly chaotic or lawful...

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Started High School and D&D in 79.

the Reason people don’t spread the pain is they want to eliminate the oppositions attack actions. If bloodied = weakened attacks (like 5e swarms for example) and players knew it they might take that path BUT if it’s generally easier to get from 50% to 0 as in the OP s suggestion they will likely...

I’m not sure it would change much. The reason one nova‘s and focus fires is to try and deplete the enemies action economy. If as a player I knew that if I got the enemy below half they would be easier to take out I would want to do this as soon as possible. The only difference might be if I knew...

Moved my weekly game onto roll20, miss the dinner and catch up but still got the game... Running a heavily adapted Out of the Abyss, the party were a 6 person 13th level group and trying to kill an advanced medusa in Blingdenstone, they had killed her minions the session before. This session...