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    D&D General Old Campaign Worlds - What Have You Used And Why?

    I'm guessing that was in 3E or beyond? I haven't followed any of the game worlds since I got out of D&D at the end of 2E. The only worlds I'm familiar with/gamed in were GH and FR... and the fate of those worlds in 2E were quite a bit different. FR had a hiccup to get into 2E (Time of...
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    D&D General Old Campaign Worlds - What Have You Used And Why?

    for nearly all of my 1E gaming, it was set in Greyhawk, mainly because that's all there was, aside from a handful of non-TSR stuff that wasn't widely available where I was going to college. Towards the end of my gaming days in 2E, I set a campaign in FR, which was going strong at the time. My...
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    D&D General d&d is anti-medieval

    OTOH, they wouldn't be eaten by demons, fireballed by evil mages who are irked by something, bothered by liches, annoyed by illusions, or attacked by fighters driven mad by insane magical swords.
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    D&D General d&d is anti-medieval

    It was a theoretical musing, not a serious campaign idea. Still, it might be interesting to have a fair sized magic dead area in a campaign....
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    D&D General d&d is anti-medieval

    I wondered at times back in my DM days if you could have an actual medieval type place, if there was a kingdom in a big magic-dead zone; no mages, no spell-wielding clerics, no magical monsters/outer planar critters, etc. It later occurred to me that while peasants would love such a place, the...
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    D&D General Your Top Tip(s) for Prepping a Published Adventure

    I used a similar plot to the GDQ series, but made it lower level and used assorted reptilian critters instead of giants... the PCs basically took on lizardmen, troglodytes, and fire newts, found that a reptilian devil-type monster was behind it all, and took the fight to him in a demi-plane full...
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    D&D General Whatever Happened to D&D's Sea Serpent?

    what happened to them? The krakens ate them all. Every single one. Yep. Sad.
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    D&D General Your Top Tip(s) for Prepping a Published Adventure

    kinda depends on what you're running. If it's a 5E campaign with Ghosts of Saltmarsh, there's a lot of prep.... along with the standard plot/NPCs, you've got the new ship rules to integrate. Older modules tend to be a lot shorter one-shot stuff. One thing I'll add to the list: be prepared...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Revising Castle Grayhawk for 5e

    While most of it was execrable, I did like the Island of Unused Monsters, where loads of critters (mostly from the FF) that DMs never used in adventures all lived together, and ate flumphs to get by....
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    D&D General Hilarious typos in D&D books

    There's another thread on the site where someone relates the story of an NPC who starved to death because he was always lying when asked if he was hungry...
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    D&D General d&d is anti-medieval

    I'd bet he read ERB and HR Haggard as well (one of the Conan stories practically duplicates a scene from one of the Quatermain novels)…
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    D&D 5E (2014) What should the next product be?

    maybe it'll be a recipe book with things like Waterdeep Wings and Greyhawk Goulash. C'mon, you know that if it says 'official D&D product', you know you'll buy it...
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    D&D 3.x 3E and the Feel of D&D

    probably. Still, the whole backwards AC thing annoyed me the whole time in 1E, and I was hoping to see it changed...
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    D&D 3.x 3E and the Feel of D&D

    I admit to not being totally satisfied with any edition I've seen. 1E was the classic, of course, but lord... those 'run backwards AC', screwy surprise and initiative rules, poor organization, eventual suffering from too many added on rules books. 2E was an improvement in organization, but...
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    D&D General Adventuring Company Names and What They Are Up To

    one of my 2E groups back in the day called themselves the Regulators. They were inspired by the group in Young Guns led by Billy the Kid. After I introduced flintlock pistols into the game, they sorta acted like them too...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What should the next product be?

    I want a new MM with nothing but varieties of giant space hamsters. Truly this would fill a huge demand...
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    D&D General d&d is anti-medieval

    it's about as medieval of LotR…. looks sorta medieval, acts sorta medieval, but some whopping differences. And D&D actually takes a step further away from LotR/medieval by having lotsa pantheons of deities, instead of one big one...
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    D&D 5E (2014) March's D&D Book To Be Announced On January 9th

    I hope it's about evil squirrels and the players' epic long (lvl 1-12) conflict to stop their nefarious plans. Okay, not really. I'd like to see something along the lines of the Saltmarsh book... revamp a classic campaign, add in some stuff from Dungeon and new stuff, make a campaign out of...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ideas please.

    Yes, B4/The Lost City is a good one. Along with the standard 'dungeon crawl down the pyramid levels' (with all those goofy encounters with the natives), there is a whole second 'crawl down the levels below the pyramid' section, and an actual lost city down in a huge cavern, and levels below...
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    D&D General The senseless achitecture in most official products

    In the first group I was in way back in early 1E days, modules were rife with unnamed NPCs. Our players just tended to call all of them Fred. There was Fred the merchant and Fred the farmer and Fred the guard, etc. In fact, since in our group no one wanted to play the cleric and we had an...
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