Fighting your way through the monster and god books
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systor1
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Oh, by the Lords of Chaos,
What a bunch of 2E wennies and rules 'wwhhaaa' lawyers.
Oh for the days of power when a kill earned treasure and it all earned exp.
The days of fun over realism, of excitment over 'roleplaying', of fantasy over physics.
To remember the time of feasting with Conan, or fighting side-by-side whit John Carter Warlord of Mars. To walk the World of Our Minds as the ones who were the "someone better" and not always slinking from one 'scene' to the next in fear of the "someone who is always better".
This is what gameing was in the days of 1E. Before we thought of realism and balance. When a friend would tell us about this wild new game we just had to try. When we would buy those three magical paper books and read just enough to get the dice rolling. We did not have groups of gaming societies or dedicated magazines to teach us the "basics". The friends I played with in those first years of gaming, We did work our way thought the monster list many a time. When finally that paperback Gods, Demigods and Heros came out we worked our way though it as well. It was just a newer bigger monster list.
No we did not feel the least bit unfair or unbalanced about it. After all Our DM was taught how to play and DM by those who had learned to play and DM by GG himself. Oh well progress comes to all things. Thank you for reading my rant.
What a bunch of 2E wennies and rules 'wwhhaaa' lawyers.
Oh for the days of power when a kill earned treasure and it all earned exp.
The days of fun over realism, of excitment over 'roleplaying', of fantasy over physics.
To remember the time of feasting with Conan, or fighting side-by-side whit John Carter Warlord of Mars. To walk the World of Our Minds as the ones who were the "someone better" and not always slinking from one 'scene' to the next in fear of the "someone who is always better".
This is what gameing was in the days of 1E. Before we thought of realism and balance. When a friend would tell us about this wild new game we just had to try. When we would buy those three magical paper books and read just enough to get the dice rolling. We did not have groups of gaming societies or dedicated magazines to teach us the "basics". The friends I played with in those first years of gaming, We did work our way thought the monster list many a time. When finally that paperback Gods, Demigods and Heros came out we worked our way though it as well. It was just a newer bigger monster list.
No we did not feel the least bit unfair or unbalanced about it. After all Our DM was taught how to play and DM by those who had learned to play and DM by GG himself. Oh well progress comes to all things. Thank you for reading my rant.
IronWolf
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Guilty to some extent..... While not going through the manuals alphabetically I certainly made my way through a fair numbers of monsters and deities in the day! Just sat down and started picking them out for one on one battles. Most of those occasions were me as the player and DM, so of course my character won! 
On some occasions I believe a friend would come over and then we would gang up on a god or two.....
Those days are long since past.....
On some occasions I believe a friend would come over and then we would gang up on a god or two.....Those days are long since past.....
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
In my defense, I was in the sixth grade and a lot of those Egyptian gods in the original Dieties & Demigods had it coming.
And, frankly, since our usual gaming session consisted of us getting to the town outside the module, starting a huge barroom brawl and then running off with the barmaids, this wasn't a big drop in the usual quality of our gaming.
And, frankly, since our usual gaming session consisted of us getting to the town outside the module, starting a huge barroom brawl and then running off with the barmaids, this wasn't a big drop in the usual quality of our gaming.
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Strombringer was a powerful weapon back in the day. Me and a few friends went through those books and the MM, MMII, and Fiend Folio, in addition to the D&D book.
There was only one creature that gave us pause, some thing from one of the Oriental pantheons that had a weapon that could mimick any weapon but with twice it's strength.
We were like 36 level or something at the time using some weird mix of basic D&D and AD&D and Mayfair's Role Aid rules.
At the time, I was like 12-14, it seemed pretty cool.
There was only one creature that gave us pause, some thing from one of the Oriental pantheons that had a weapon that could mimick any weapon but with twice it's strength.
We were like 36 level or something at the time using some weird mix of basic D&D and AD&D and Mayfair's Role Aid rules.
At the time, I was like 12-14, it seemed pretty cool.
Cthulhu's Librarian
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Oh yeah. My brother and I used to do this all the time, with the kid across the street joining us on occasion. I know we went through just about the entire Dieties & Demigods (evil gods only, of course), and almost all of MM & Fiend Folio. What else were we going to do after we finished watching pro wrestling on a saturday morning? 
As for a legitimate DM, sure, we could run real games as well when there were enough people around. And no, we never fudged. Never. Would I lie?
As for a legitimate DM, sure, we could run real games as well when there were enough people around. And no, we never fudged. Never. Would I lie?
When I came home from college, I found that most of my home town gaming group had characters that were pretty high level, with obscenely powerful items and abilities. After we finished with the Demonweb Pits, I created a series of dungeons using creatures from the Deities and Demigods book. The creatures weren't actual gods, but I used the stats from the book. The party creamed the entire Greek pantheon before we stopped and moved onto something else.
Later the same characters took on (and killed) Tiamat (with her guard dragons). I was setting them up to take on all the Elemental gods and the Demon/Devil princes, but never got a chance to finish things up.
This could never happen in 3E, but boy was it fun back then.
Later the same characters took on (and killed) Tiamat (with her guard dragons). I was setting them up to take on all the Elemental gods and the Demon/Devil princes, but never got a chance to finish things up.
This could never happen in 3E, but boy was it fun back then.
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