Leif's 1E AD&D Game OOC

Leif · Jun 24, 2013

The cool thing about those toll-free numbers on the back of your credit card is that they are answered 24/7.

Scott DeWar · Jun 24, 2013

I was tired, it was time to get some sleep, despite my tooth ache.

Rhun · Jun 25, 2013

Falariel said:
Also makes me realize that I did a lot of things in the past a little differently than RAW... A whole lot. lol

I'm pretty sure that we all did that.

Leif · Jun 25, 2013

I know that Scotley and I did.

Scott DeWar · Jun 26, 2013

Leif said:
I know that Scotley and I did.

I could never conceive that! [/blatent lie]

Falariel · Jun 26, 2013

Rhun said:
I'm pretty sure that we all did that.

Well, yeah. I just thought I was following the rules verbatim.

Leif · Jun 26, 2013

"Interpretations" can creep in through the narrowest of cracks, I find, and once you realize that your using a few juicy "interpretations," well, it just gets easier to do from there.

But, honestly, I think that was the original intent of E.G.G. It was only later on that he started to throw around goofy words like "Official Dungeons & Dragons." The 1E DMG as much as explicitly says that DMs can and should adapt and change the rules to suit their own games and worlds. To quote the master, "Know the game systems and you will know how and when to take upon yourself the ultimate power.....[The players] are playing the game the way you their DM, imagines and creates it." Dungeon Masters Guide, E. Gary Gygax, TSR Games, 1979, p. 9.

Leif · Jun 26, 2013

Scott DeWar said:
I could never conceive that! [/blatent lie]

Oh don't get me started with your nonsense, DeWar! We were making arcane spellcasters who could cast any spell that they knew spontaneously if they had unused 'slots' available DECADES before the Sorcerer appeared. We just didn't know what a 'slot' was. Our ruling was that a magic-user could cast any spell that he knew in place of a spell of the same level that he had prepared. Of course, if he had a Fireball prepared, then that was what he had to cast first, but if he needed another one then he could cast it in place of any other 3rd level spell that he had prepared.

NOTE: That was then, this is now, and that sort of schtuff is just not too cool. Gimme a break, I was 15 and 16 back then, and I'm .... well ... older now, and, we hope, wiser.