RE: https://ttrpg-hangout.social/@YUMDM/116320330436497956

AD&D2e is the edition where D&D went from a darker pulp fantasy tone to a lighter high fantasy tone. 2e was also the late 80s post-Satanic Panic edition where everything was scrubbed to make it palatable to the parents of 12 year olds. So while 2e is the improved streamlined AD&D1e in terms of rules (before the bloat of the Player/DM Options books), it definitely lost something trying to redeem its reputation in the eyes of people who didn’t play the game. #ttrpgs #dnd #adnd2e #ttrpg #osrrpg

Ich bin mir aktuell nicht sicher, ob ich sie verfluchen oder küssen soll, aber @Morgunin und @BlauesLicht haben mich unbeabsichtigt veranlasst, darüber nachzudenken, ob ich mich nicht mal mit einer Conversion der AD&D2e Boxen Ruins of Undermountain oder Dragon Mountain ins ShadowDark System beschäftigen sollte.

Ich glaube, ich entscheide mich für ein lieb gemeintes 'woe upon them' und gucke mir das über Ostern mal an 😜

#shadowdark #ADnD2E #pnpde #pnp_de #Valravn #undermountain

Did anyone else who played AD&D 2E in game treat infravision as heat vision whereby when it was used by the characters it would allow them to see at night and see like the Predator, but the ability had limitations such as that massive heat sources could temporarily blind them, difficulty seeing cold blooded creatures, etc? Or did you just treat it as "you can see in the dark?"

Just checking.

#DND #ADnD2E #TTRPG #RPG #TableTop #Gaming

"Tucker's Kobolds" from 1987 is about giving weak #dnd monsters (honestly) excessive tricks including traps. It's a meme now, picked up on YouTube.

Looking through editions, there are zero references to kobolds using traps before it. #odnd just says they are weaker than goblins, basically the crappest humanoid. #adnd1e has them just fighting. #bxdnd says they "ambush". All before 1987. But #adnd2e (1989) has heavy reference to traps for them. TSR eating their own memes.

https://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/TuckersKobolds.pdf

Just finished Stranger Things today. Usually I don't get sentimental while watching TV/films (okay, I always tear up at 'For the Love of the Game' and 'Mama Mia!' - at one scene in each movie), but the end today made me feel a little bit sentimental.

I actually consider writing an email to my buddys from school, with whom I started playing AD&D2e about 35years ago. We haven't met in one place for 30 years, but maybe they're in for a AD&D throwback weekend?

#strangerthings #adnd2e #pnp