Just for fun: What is your oldest surviving post or thread?

[Reynard]

You know Bleys? Great dude.

One of my best friends since 95-ish. He is currently in a not great health place, sadly, and has kind of dropped off the radar despite being a lynchpin player in my current campaign.

 

[Belen]

Oldest surviving post: Dark Faerie

It was Jan 2002. I was totally wrong. DFP was a complete scam. The CEO ran off with everyone’s content.

 

[dbolack]

One of my best friends since 95-ish. He is currently in a not great health place, sadly, and has kind of dropped off the radar despite being a lynchpin player in my current campaign.

You may know my wife, then....

 

[Rune]

Looks like it was a reboot for my then-ongoing The Runic Storyhour: An Oriental Adventure in The Dream.

Alas, never finished.

 

[Cordwainer Fish]

I'm pretty sure there's a Heinlein flame war somewhere or another I participated in decades ago that is still going on.

 

[Mannahnin]

I joined the site way later than most of you. Back in 2002 I was moderating on DakkaDakka and that took up most of my forum time. There was another D&D site I was on, 3rdedition.org, where I remember overlapping with at least one or two users here, like @MerricB .

I only have a baker's dozen threads started, of which the oldest is from 2021.

Anybody else immortalized in a game product (Playtest character a major NPC, etc...?)

In response to the original question, I think my playtest credit in the front of the 1993 edition of The World of Synnibarr is the oldest. I have an entry in Petty Gods as well.

 

[Tigris]

I think these are my 2 oldest posts, made on the same day:

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D&D 4E Post in thread '[Orcus/4e] House rules - including a skill challenge replacement'

Mar 16, 2024

Multiple attacks and scaling critical hits​

Background​

I would like to do without mooks, elites and bosses if possible, relying on the game mechanics to make higher and lower level monster encounters satisfying instead.

Two design elements from PF2e - the ability to make an attack with any action and the way higher attack bonuses lead to more critical hits - may make this possible by effectively letting higher-level creatures make more attacks and do more damage on those attacks.

Early tests suggest these rules work pretty well, although they probably need some changes to...

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D&D 4E Post in thread '4e Essentials as a new edition and 4e's longevity'

Mar 16, 2024

I've always felt that if 4e had started with essentials that it'd have lasted longer. I much prefer essentials to original 4e.

Well maybe, but it would be less special. 4E stands out and is used even nowadays as inspiration for a lot of games because it did things different and not everyone liked that.


Essentials overall is not bad 4E material, it had some good designs, but the first book was just a punch into the face of people who liked 4E. It went all back to "Simple martials, complex casters", which reflects Mearls taste.


I agree that 4E would have been more successfull if...

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