D&D British edition????
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"Anyway, could you translate the post of this person verbatim?"
I'll try.
This started out with an argument about whether male drow get a -2 penalty on charisma or not. (They do in the 3.0 DMG and MM, but not in the FRCS (as far as I know, I don't have it) or in the 3.5 MM). This guy said, that in his "British edition DMG which he bought in 2001 in London" it said -2 Cha for male drows. After this they sorted out that the problem was 3.0 vs. 3.5 (and FRCS) and that core-male drow in 3.0 recieved indeed a -2 penalty on Cha.
I joined them at this moment and said that to my knowledge there is no seperate British edition of D&D, at least not in 3rd edition. Then some older posters came and said that there had been something like this back in AD&D times. And than the original poster came back claiming that his DMG has "British edition" written on its back.
Is the price for the (3.0) books bought in the UK given in dollars or pounds on the backcover? Maybe someone can have a look.
I'll try.
This started out with an argument about whether male drow get a -2 penalty on charisma or not. (They do in the 3.0 DMG and MM, but not in the FRCS (as far as I know, I don't have it) or in the 3.5 MM). This guy said, that in his "British edition DMG which he bought in 2001 in London" it said -2 Cha for male drows. After this they sorted out that the problem was 3.0 vs. 3.5 (and FRCS) and that core-male drow in 3.0 recieved indeed a -2 penalty on Cha.
I joined them at this moment and said that to my knowledge there is no seperate British edition of D&D, at least not in 3rd edition. Then some older posters came and said that there had been something like this back in AD&D times. And than the original poster came back claiming that his DMG has "British edition" written on its back.
Is the price for the (3.0) books bought in the UK given in dollars or pounds on the backcover? Maybe someone can have a look.
Ranes
Adventurer
I'm in the UK and have bought all my 3.0 and 3.5 books here. None of them have anything but US printing and pricing information on them or in them. (Spelling is uniformly American throughout.)
There haven't been British editions of D&D itself since the period between the end of the seventies and the early eighties, when Games Workshop had a licence to print UK editions of books and modules. GW also used to print Traveller, Runequest and a few other Chaosium games under licence, as it happens. As far as British D&D material was concerned, TSR's licensing to GW ended prior to 2nd edition. In fact, it ended before the 1st edition AD&D books got their facelift in 1983-4-ish. Whether TSR UK ever printed UK editions of US modules and books, I'm not sure but I don't think they did. (They did, however, publish Imagine magazine, an RPG mag with considerably less editorial weight than Dragon was carrying at the time.) The GW versions of 1st edition MM and PHB were softcover, too, though GW's DMG was hardcover. I don't know if GW produced hardcover PHBs or MMs. Again, I don't think so. (I worked in a branch of GW as a part-timer while I was studying for my A-levels, between 1981-83.) As I never touched Basic D&D, I have no idea whether GW ever produced a version of that. I did once have a copy of OD&D (sixth printing) and I'm kicking myself now but I can't remember if that was a British edition (or even if there was such a thing).
This is usually the bit where I sigh before lamenting the loss of my old roleplaying collection but not today. I met an old friend recently who said, "I've got something of yours," before handing me a monochrome-covered, 1980 GW edition of G2 The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, in near mint condition, and a copy of T1-4 The Temple Of Elemental Evil in fair condition. (The latter is US; there was no UK edition of that.) Yipee! I also now have a lead that may have located much of the rest of my collection in a certain loft, and... Oh. Sorry.
Anyway, your friend is mistaken.
There haven't been British editions of D&D itself since the period between the end of the seventies and the early eighties, when Games Workshop had a licence to print UK editions of books and modules. GW also used to print Traveller, Runequest and a few other Chaosium games under licence, as it happens. As far as British D&D material was concerned, TSR's licensing to GW ended prior to 2nd edition. In fact, it ended before the 1st edition AD&D books got their facelift in 1983-4-ish. Whether TSR UK ever printed UK editions of US modules and books, I'm not sure but I don't think they did. (They did, however, publish Imagine magazine, an RPG mag with considerably less editorial weight than Dragon was carrying at the time.) The GW versions of 1st edition MM and PHB were softcover, too, though GW's DMG was hardcover. I don't know if GW produced hardcover PHBs or MMs. Again, I don't think so. (I worked in a branch of GW as a part-timer while I was studying for my A-levels, between 1981-83.) As I never touched Basic D&D, I have no idea whether GW ever produced a version of that. I did once have a copy of OD&D (sixth printing) and I'm kicking myself now but I can't remember if that was a British edition (or even if there was such a thing).
This is usually the bit where I sigh before lamenting the loss of my old roleplaying collection but not today. I met an old friend recently who said, "I've got something of yours," before handing me a monochrome-covered, 1980 GW edition of G2 The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl, in near mint condition, and a copy of T1-4 The Temple Of Elemental Evil in fair condition. (The latter is US; there was no UK edition of that.) Yipee! I also now have a lead that may have located much of the rest of my collection in a certain loft, and... Oh. Sorry.
Anyway, your friend is mistaken.
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Saeviomagy
Adventurer
Dang. And here I was hanging for an edition where they got the spelling right, and used a measurement system that wasn't stuck in the dark ages.
Flyspeck23
First Post
Three possibilities:morbiczer said:
1. He lied.
2. He tried to be funny (pretty similar to 1., though)
3. He is not talking about 3rd edition at all. Just because he bought it 2001 doesn't mean it's 3.0.
Hardhead
Explorer
Saeviomagy said:
You've got to admit, though, the Imperial system is good for a "middle-ages-ish" setting. And at least America doesn't use the "stone" weight measurement.
As for the spelling, sometimes the American spelling makes more sense. Sometimes the Brittish does. Both make very little sense phonetically.
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morbiczer said:This "british edition" thing supposedly (sp?) is on the backcover.
And here is the link to the thread: http://forum.rpg.hu/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=2343&s=
Maybe some of you always wanted to check out a Hungarian RPG site but didn't know where to start.
Thanks for the link to the hungarian site. do you have any good links to other central european sites?
johnsemlak
First Post
Not exactly central Europe, but www.rolemancer.ru is the premier Russian D&D/RPG site I'm aware of.
The site is in Russian of course.
The front page has an article on a possible Russian-language version of the Core Rulebooks
The site is in Russian of course.
The front page has an article on a possible Russian-language version of the Core Rulebooks
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