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  1. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    And sometimes it's not either, but the context of your prior relationship with the listener, including what's been said before.
  2. Mannahnin

    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Mine finally showed up last week, a big gorgeous box of goodies. But I'm prepping to move, so I'm keeping it all in the box for now.
  3. Mannahnin

    Why do we need thieves??

    Reminds me a little of the GLOG for which each class has only 4 templates (A-D), and you can either add a template in an existing class or one in a new class when you level up. Though GLOG caps you at only 4 total templates. Level advancement goes to 10, but the power curve flattens out a lot...
  4. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way that you say it.
  5. Mannahnin

    TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions

    That's what Pendragon explicitly advises players to do. Speaking of another game I'm playing now.
  6. Mannahnin

    TSR On the Relative Merits of the TSR Editions

    When the rules are fiddly and detailed it's easy to make a mistake. When character generation is quick & simple it's easy to make a new character and jump right back in the action when one is killed or disabled. One of the great things about running the simpler versions of D&D is that you...
  7. Mannahnin

    Our Physical Fitness

    Thursday night hit my core three upper body exercises again plus a little. Again trying to progress by a rep or two everywhere I can. I'm a touch sick with some kind of respiratory crud this week, so I know that's sapping energy. Smith inclined barbell bench 70x20 (accidentally set the incline...
  8. Mannahnin

    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    That's part of why my preference is still for the original gridded UDT, rather than the later zoned UDT. If I were to use zoned UDT, I think I'd want to divide the mid-zone into four quadrants, to facilitate multiple "centers" like you're talking about.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    My usual approaches in the last few years have been fog of war on roll20, or, in-person drawing it out for the players on a Chessex megamat to save time. Sometimes I'll have a premade poster map, or use a 1" gridded presentation pad from Staples and draw out a map in advance if I expect a site...
  10. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Yup. I employed that one again yesterday. For a while on the DakkaDakka forums we had a trend going in rules debates where we'd go ahead and break out our premises and conclusions explicitly.
  11. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Reminds me of those "Earth is a deathworld" memes talking about how corrosive O2 and H2O are.
  12. Mannahnin

    D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+]

    Reminding me of the [species] paragon classes in the 3.5 Unearthed Arcana. I remember taking levels in the Elf one with one of my characters.
  13. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I would slightly modify the aforegoing to note that such pleasantries as "the loyal opposition" and "the honorable member" are signifiers intended to formally encode good faith norms, though in practice they can be used sarcastically or become empty phrases, so I'd caution the reader that a...
  14. Mannahnin

    OSR New edition of OSE in 2026 (updated with some links)

    Makes sense. The existing OSE SRD treasure generator online has a Basic/Expert/Advanced toggle for the treasure tables so you can choose which group of tables to roll on. That's how I read it too. I extend that rule to Dwarves, Elves, and Halflings in my B/X house rules. Though I also let...
  15. Mannahnin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    For a sec I thought bartender, but they normally use electronic touch screen point of sale devices too, like with McD's. I think you'd most likely need to find some low-tech labor job at a small business with a luddite owner. There are some bars and restaurants and cleaning, maintenance, or...
  16. Mannahnin

    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    Good list! Although Alien was '79.
  17. Mannahnin

    D&D General One innovation per edition

    Not crediting it for the invention of race-as-class?? These are from 4E. 4E Backgrounds weren't didn't exactly give feats, but a wide variety of benefits, some of which were equivalent to feats.
  18. Mannahnin

    Our Physical Fitness

    Got in Tuesday night again and did the same three upper body exercises as Sunday. Trying to be consistent and buckle down on progress - baseline of go to failure or a slight increase in reps or weight for each exercise where possible. If I can't increase I'll try to hit the last mark. I'm eating...
  19. Mannahnin

    D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+]

    For the record, Dwarves and Hobbits in the original 1974 rules are races, and that is a separate concept from class, but the only class open to them was Fighting-Man (AKA Fighter). Only the 1974 rules for the Elf are unwieldy/unclear in OD&D, as they were required to be both Fighter and...
  20. Mannahnin

    Our Physical Fitness

    Got in Monday night again; hit different muscle groups. Trying to stick to a consistent suite of exercises and put in the effort for a little progressive overload, focusing on adding reps now, where I can. Lat pulldowns (narrow grip) 4 sets with drop set on the last one. Increased the base...
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