Comments on: On the subject of Monsters

By: Spadge Fromley

Spadge Fromley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:01:22 +0000

Did you just call the Owlbear a pedometerophile?

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:37:59 +0000

I have an almost complete set of AD&D 1st Editions rule books. I sat down and started to read them, and it all seemed much more complicated than I remember. It occurs to me that my younger self was either much cleverer or was able to fudge more effectively than my current self.

By: dava

dava — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:57:19 +0000

Poor old wandering monster (most probably an ‘OwlBear’) is out in the woods for his daily walk, with his little belt attachment thing that counts his steps when BAM! An adventure party lays into him with +1 axes, and flaming acorns! It’s just not on!

Dave

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By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:25:44 +0000

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By: mgreen02

mgreen02 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:52:58 +0000

Occassionally when I find myself walking the dog early in the mornings or walking with the family in the woods at a weekend I can’t stop myself from thinking that someone, somewhere is rolling on a wandering monster table.

By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:55:29 +0000

@gruber From a comment on http://tw3.it/1SC – triumph in one phrase: "Now turn to 400"

By: Eliot Earle

Eliot Earle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:19:48 +0000

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By: Spadge Fromley

Spadge Fromley — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:38:50 +0000

- Willie? What are you doing out of your bowl?
- My name is KIZARVEXIUS and you are TOAST!

I had a plastic spinny THACO wheel for Fighters, Paladins and Rangers. Before THACO was the norm. Heck, it was such a revolutionary concept that it needed explaining on the cardboard sleeve. Anyway. You matched up the armour type against the weapon type on the outer and inner rings, read down towards the middle for the fighter’s level, and it told you the adjusted THACO. Or something. Never played a game where the rules were implemented.

I also remember a certain nameless bastard DM who would get the law student living next door to help pick fault at wish wordings.

I also remember the same bastard DM calculating the volume of a room, comparing it against the size of your average fireball spell, and adjusting saving throws for half damage accordingly.

By: dava

dava — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:47:38 +0000

Thorin sits down and starts singing about Gold

Dava

By: dava

dava — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:46:28 +0000

Bree Yark!

(How rude!)

Dava

By: Argent

Argent — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:44:08 +0000

Hey rube how the language has changed But to be honest, if there was one particular phrase that I remember from the younger days, one that above all summed up the triumph of the day, the win, that you’d conquered and no one could take away from you, it had to be…..

Now turn to 400.

By: Jared Earle

Jared Earle — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:31:26 +0000

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