Official Nostalgia Thread (thread necromancy)

[Andre]

Hopefully I will get a chance to vent on monsters tonight.

76. Any problem could be solved by killing the monster and taking its stuff. No negotiating. No politics. No guilt.

 

[KenM]

77. Lead minis were acually made of lead.

 

[Dryfus]

78. Each character class had it's own XP table.


79. First edition barbarians WOOHOO!!! By the time you reach second everyone else in the party was at least 3rd, and the thief(not rouge) was 5th or 6th and XP for BREAKING magic items

80. Weapon specialization and double weapon specialization. fighter only.

81. Weapon and nonweapon proficientcies

 

[mac1504]

66 There was a very good chance that at some point, you were using some bizarre polearm of which you had no idea of neither its origins or even what it looked like.

LOL! I remember half the PC's in my games back then would carry around halberds because they did 1d10 damage.

I think a few of them even carried around back-up halberds

 

[Waldorf]

82. Halflings were hobbits, treant were ents, and you half-expected Gandalf to show up as an NPC.

 

[Ironclad]

83. Alignment languages

84. When being Chaotic meant that the other PCs would just kill you and take your stuff

85. Talking in alignment languages would allow you to weed out all those NPCs who the DM would put in there to betray the party at a critical moment. Then you would kill them and take their stuff.

 

[JohnSnow]

My first serious crush: Morgan Ironwolf (the female fighter wearing chainmail spandex in, apparently, cold weather) from the Moldvay ed. Basic D&D Set.

My second serious crush: Aleena (the female cleric wearing chainmail spandex in, sadly, temperate weather) from the Mentzer ed. Basic D&D Set. (And yes, I still hate Bargle for wasting her!)

Also emotionally important: the illustrations of the sylph and succubus in the original Monster Manual.

My early teen brain explosion: the many revealing illustrations in the Deities and Demigods book -- especially, the Egyptian mythos (that Bast picture really messed with my psychological development) and the Greek mythos (Aphrodite).

Okay, I just about sprayed latte all over my computer screen! Ahhhh Morgan...

And I have lots of these, but only a few minutes...

86. DM (reading monster manual) - "Special Attacks: See Below? Yeah...whatever"
87. Weapon size damage: long swords did more damage to large creatures! Why? Who cares!?!!?
88. Long sword? PFFFT....real men use broadswords!
89. Glossy covers? Bindings? You must not remember Unearthed Arcana.
90. We got cheesy cartoons in our DMG and our monster manual...and we liked it!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Bah. Nostalgia's not what it used to be.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

66 There was a very good chance that at some point, you were using some bizarre polearm of which you had no idea of neither its origins or even what it looked like.

Or knew how to pronounce....

 

[Runesong42]

Isle of Dread. Best. Module. EVAR.