OD&D 4 me (April Fools)

[Plane Sailing]

WAIT A GODDANG MINUTE HERE! I just saw this.

Umbran is kicking ME out of a thread. UMBRAN?

Dude, I been a mod since. . . well, since long before you. . . You don't have that authority, and I find the idea that you would even THINK you did laughable. LAUGHABLE!

How about I kick you out of the thread?

Let me put it this way Nemm.

Look at your title. It says moderator.

Look at my title. It says Admin. ADMIN.

So I outrank you and more importantly I've got access to the Admin control panel and you don't.

Say goodbye to your moderator status. If you give us any more crap you'll be saying goodbye to your boring so-called storyhours too, so if you fancy giving us any trouble, make sure you have a backup.

For goodness sake.

 

[DaveMage]

Improved Vacation? Man, I want that feat!

Improved Vacation [General]
Prerequisite: a job with benefits
Your powers of vacationing are superior to those of normal people.
Benefit: When you take a vacation you experience double the amount of fun that a normal vacation would grant.
Normal: When on vacation you experience a level of fun directly related to the amount of time, cash and alcohol expended/consumed while on vacation.
Special: If you are an ENWorld moderator you can (apparently) impose this feat on any non-moderator ENWorld users.

You left out a pre-requisite: Location = Las Vegas

 

[CleverNickName]

Wow...I go down to Neuberger Hall to get a book loan and a parking permit, and look at all that I miss while I was away.

FWIW, I still play Basic D&D. Granted, the red-box rules are still a more recent edition than OD&D, but the heart and soul of the game is still very much intact if you ask me. I also play 3.5E, and will continue to do so for at least a couple more years. A new edition being released does not diminish the years of fun and enjoyment I have experienced under older rules systems.

About the other thing:

I love this site, regardless of what version of D&D I happen to be playing at the time. When I'm not lurking around in the many different forums, I am posting ideas and asking questions and taking polls just so I can learn more about this wonderful hobby that we all share. There is truly no other place like it, and you (all of you) know it.

If this was all an elaborate April Fools joke, consider me duped.

 

[WhatGravitas]

So I outrank you and more importantly I've got access to the Admin control panel and you don't.

But isn't Morris more Admin-y than you?

Cheers, LT.

 

[Plane Sailing]

But isn't Morris more Admin-y than you?

Cheers, LT.

Actually no, but I don't anticipate that creating any problems. I was made an Admin for my technical skills rather than my good looks (but I don't want to drag this off topic)

Cheers

 

[Michael Morris]

One of these days people will stop mixing up Morri (me) with Morrus (Russ).

This thread has no business being in general by the way - and since everyone else is being catty and misbehaving I guess it falls to me - the worst behaved admin on staff - to move this to off topic where it belongs. Grow up people - geez..

 

[hafrogman]

But isn't Morris more Admin-y than you?

Cheers, LT.

No, Morris is just Tech Admin. Morrus is the chief. . . except that he's selling off his interests to a corporate sponsor. Mum's the word on that though, don't tell anyone.

 

[Irda Ranger]

And as It was Foretold, the Rain Washed the Mountaintops, and the Truth Was Spoken from the Mouth of an Osprey:

The game is also so simple that nobody has any choices. ... I'm playing the wizard, and I literally go from being "HOLY **** this is overpowered" to "Wow I'm useless" in three spells, flat. (And no, it's not okay for ANY of this to happen...)

And the Enemies of the Fun Were Smited.

every time someone wants to do something outside of the rules he resolves it a different way (because there's no consistent rule written for it) OR he comes up with a resolution system (which is a bad one, because he's not a good game designer), and then writes it in the word document of house rules (which expands every session. Currently we're at 100+ house rules,

Been there. It's ugly. It's also hard, and I'm lazy. For this reason I have hired a few guys up in Seattle to do this for me and to have the house rules document delivered to my door in a nice, neat package. They don't respond to my emails often, but I expect to receive "the big fix" some time in June or so.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Wow...I go down to Neuberger Hall to get a book loan and a parking permit, and look at all that I miss while I was away.

FWIW, I still play Basic D&D. Granted, the red-box rules are still a more recent edition than OD&D, but the heart and soul of the game is still very much intact if you ask me. I also play 3.5E, and will continue to do so for at least a couple more years. A new edition being released does not diminish the years of fun and enjoyment I have experienced under older rules systems.

Red-box is far inferior to 1974. Hardly the same game, really. More like version 0.5--and we know how well the half-versions are.

 

[der_kluge]

Everything is simple. Monsters are simple: in statting a dungeon recently, all I put down were AC x, HD x, Move x". That's all the statblock you need: 3 numbers.

But even that's not entirely true, is it? I mean, it's one that to put that as a stat block for an Orc, but quite a different thing for a troll - which regenerates (how much? How often) or a skeleton (takes half damage from slashing weapons) - so some monsters have *other* things that can complicate the stat block.

I can appreciate a simpler ruleset, but the player in me finds the lack of options and diversification woefully lacking from such a system. Such was my major complaint with C&C.