Blackwarder
Adventurer
The ink realy does smell funny but it fade away slowly, my MM hardly smell like anything at all.
Warder
Warder
R
RevTurkey
Guest
Maybe we can buy a can of 'Geekmusk 5e' from WoTC to top up our books if the stench weakens? If they don't provide this for sale then I say they have utterly failed us with this edition! I demand it! 5e's horrific smell is integral to the play experience lol 
aramis erak
Legend
My PHB smells of vanilla... (player was handling it after lotioning her hands.)
Stormonu
NeoGrognard
Wow, your players lotion up before the game? Must be some hardcore DM.
Thunderfoot
Hero
They smell like oily copy print to me; you know that gloss paper that everyone uses now a days. I like my page print from the olden days, they smell great and age well. But eventually they all smell like library - I keep all my editions side by side on my D&D shelves...
Which is great with the new 'one ring' edition, I mean 5th edition....
Which is great with the new 'one ring' edition, I mean 5th edition....
pming
Legend
Hiya.
For me, I think the winner, hands down, is my Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1st Edition; 1986, hardback, printed in UK). After that, probably 1e AD&D books and my Powers & Perils boxed set(s). For recent game...I think it's probably the DCC RPG.
For the longest time we (me and my friends) could almost judge a game by how it smelled (crazy teenagers!). We'd go into the local hobby store, find a new RPG, crack it open and stuff our nose into the crack and breath in deeply. If it smelled "good", we bought it...if not...well, it went back on the shelf.
^_^
Paul L. Ming
Hmm..I thought 4e had a milder scent with nutty overtones and a hint of jasmin...
C'mon folks...what are your favourite smelling roleplaying games?
For me, I think the winner, hands down, is my Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1st Edition; 1986, hardback, printed in UK). After that, probably 1e AD&D books and my Powers & Perils boxed set(s). For recent game...I think it's probably the DCC RPG.
For the longest time we (me and my friends) could almost judge a game by how it smelled (crazy teenagers!). We'd go into the local hobby store, find a new RPG, crack it open and stuff our nose into the crack and breath in deeply. If it smelled "good", we bought it...if not...well, it went back on the shelf.
^_^
Paul L. Ming
mach1.9pants
Hero
The smell of the 1E hard backs is the best, and (amazingly) still lingers after many years in hand and on shelf.
A quick sniff of 5E PHB: Light but well rounded, not a hint of bog but a touch of older box set ~ in short similar to 1E FR box set. It doesn't smell too different from my recently arrived copy of Dwimmermount, despite that being a B+W book.
Went and grabbed my FR box set, and yes it is similar - tho not as 'dusty' - smell is the most evocative and well remembered of the senses!
A quick sniff of 5E PHB: Light but well rounded, not a hint of bog but a touch of older box set ~ in short similar to 1E FR box set. It doesn't smell too different from my recently arrived copy of Dwimmermount, despite that being a B+W book.
Went and grabbed my FR box set, and yes it is similar - tho not as 'dusty' - smell is the most evocative and well remembered of the senses!
R
RevTurkey
Guest
Hiya.
For me, I think the winner, hands down, is my Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play (1st Edition; 1986, hardback, printed in UK). After that, probably 1e AD&D books and my Powers & Perils boxed set(s). For recent game...I think it's probably the DCC RPG.
For the longest time we (me and my friends) could almost judge a game by how it smelled (crazy teenagers!). We'd go into the local hobby store, find a new RPG, crack it open and stuff our nose into the crack and breath in deeply. If it smelled "good", we bought it...if not...well, it went back on the shelf.
^_^
Paul L. Ming
When I was pondering the smell of good smelling rpgs...Warhammer 1st, AD&D 1st and DCC were the exact same books that came to my mind too!
I think Warhammer would be the winner...just...but all three had fine bouquets.
R
RevTurkey
Guest
Hold the phone! Stop the press! breaking news!
My copy of the DMG has arrived...and it smells...quite nice!
I have re-burried my nose into the books.
The PHB is the main culprit...it's rotten. The MM is quite sweaty too.
But in comparison...the DMG is like a sweet, sweet Autumn breeze. Ahhh
My copy of the DMG has arrived...and it smells...quite nice!
I have re-burried my nose into the books.
The PHB is the main culprit...it's rotten. The MM is quite sweaty too.
But in comparison...the DMG is like a sweet, sweet Autumn breeze. Ahhh
