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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neqroteqh" data-source="post: 53336" data-attributes="member: 1821">"1st-edition feel" means "leaders" and "mappers."Not Cool.It means "declaring your actions" before rolling initiative.Not Cool.It means looking at that funny "AC vs. Weapon Type" table and ignoring it.Not Cool.It means wishing you were that thief trying to pry the demon-eye out of that big statue.Cool.It means wondering why those dead lizard-things were draped across that altar.Cool.  I always wondered that, myself.It means flipping through Deities and Demigods and deciding which goddesses you wanted to do.Cool.  Is that what Elminster does in his spare time?It means staring at the "Disease and Parasitic Infestation Table" and wondering when you could use it next.Very Cool.  I'm an evil DM, so....It means TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL!!!Cool, but I like the new version better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It means AGAINST THE GIANTS!!Cool, but I like the new version better. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It means DESCENT INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH!!  (and, yes, the corridors all bended at exactly 30-degree angles, to conform to the hex paper...)Cool.It means VAULT OF THE DROW!!!Cool.It means getting polymorphed into a pig, and then losing your character because the DM ruled that you now had the mind of a pig and didn't want to change back.Cool.It means thinking that 400 hit points was an awful lot of hit points.It still is, isn't it?  Even the baddest 20th level Barbarian probably only has a little over half that, after all!It means advancing to 6th level and becoming a "Myrmidon" (whatever that is...)Cool.It means being thrilled because your Armor Class was zero.Cool.It means thinking "50 feet of rope," a "ten-foot pole," and "12 iron spikes" were things an adventurer simply couldn't do without.Cool. It means making a "Bend Bars/Lift Gates" roll.Cool.It means hoping that maybe, one day, you can be a "Grand Master of Flowers."Cool.It means wandering the land in search of an Archdruid to fight, because you couldn't get to 12th level without fighting him.Cool.It means carefully considering the subtle differences between a bec-de-corbin, mancatcher, ranseur, partisan, lucern hammer, guisarme, bill, bill-hook, bill-hook-guisarme, fauchard, fauchard-fork, awl pike, and fauchard-fork-guisarme-bill-hook-hammer, and finally deciding to buy a longsword.Very Cool.It means reading the description of the cacodemon spell and losing sanity points.Hehe... Cool as well.It means staring blankly at the new "Non-Weapon Proficiency" rules, and promptly ignoring them.Eh... Not Cool.It means being deathly afraid of "poison needles." Yes!1e, 2e, oD&D, Hackmaster, 3e, d20, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Planescape, Dragonlance, Kalamar, Scarred Lands- It's all D&D to me!</blockquote>

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