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<blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 9079561" data-attributes="member: 6921294"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">AS FAR AS MONSTER MANUALS ARE CONCERNED, 2E CAN'T BE BEAT! </span></strong></p><p></p><p>I remember getting the FR Heroes Lore book around this time of year 96 or so. Very odd story. A friend of mine hired me to help tear off a roof on a house of a friend of ours. Guy I was gaming with drove by (as we all ran in the same circles), dropped off the Heroes Lore book because he had just come from Media Play as I was DMing at that time. Workdays over about twilight and I walk a few blocks to another friend's house, drink some beers and did some Lysergic acid diethylamide, So for the next 14 hours I'm dosed and carting around and trying not to forget this book. Fast forward a week and we're running through Sword of the Dales, I'm DMing. and the PCs are in trouble, about to buy the farm. Shravins Tomb iirc. I had maybe 5 seconds to figure this out, do the PCs die or not? I recalled one specific but random line from the Heros Lore Book in Dove Falconhands' entry and it fit perfect. She just showed up, whipped ass and left. Never talked to the PCs, but I gave them the aire that she was on a more important mission didn't care about them but they just crossed paths...got lucky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="R_J_K75, post: 9079561, member: 6921294"] [B][SIZE=6]AS FAR AS MONSTER MANUALS ARE CONCERNED, 2E CAN'T BE BEAT! [/SIZE][/B] I remember getting the FR Heroes Lore book around this time of year 96 or so. Very odd story. A friend of mine hired me to help tear off a roof on a house of a friend of ours. Guy I was gaming with drove by (as we all ran in the same circles), dropped off the Heroes Lore book because he had just come from Media Play as I was DMing at that time. Workdays over about twilight and I walk a few blocks to another friend's house, drink some beers and did some Lysergic acid diethylamide, So for the next 14 hours I'm dosed and carting around and trying not to forget this book. Fast forward a week and we're running through Sword of the Dales, I'm DMing. and the PCs are in trouble, about to buy the farm. Shravins Tomb iirc. I had maybe 5 seconds to figure this out, do the PCs die or not? I recalled one specific but random line from the Heros Lore Book in Dove Falconhands' entry and it fit perfect. She just showed up, whipped ass and left. Never talked to the PCs, but I gave them the aire that she was on a more important mission didn't care about them but they just crossed paths...got lucky. [/QUOTE]
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