David CroyleFor #FathersDay, I'm playing in a Champions game my friend's son put together as a surprise for him. His character has been around for 40 years now, while mine dates back to the early 90s.
Gemma โญ๏ธ๐ฐ๐บ๐ธ ๐ต๐ญ ๐LRT: Was just having this discussion yesterday with my D&D group, how a species that has sentience, language, and culture is by definition not "monsters", but "people", and that's why #racism has always been baked into the Fantasy genre, especially in #ttRPGs. No matter how much the old #grognards get annoyed by those of us who are #woke, I will continue to point out that I've been playing #DnD since 1981, and the racism is deep and wide. The #OSR largely exists to perpetuate it.
ContrarianPage 35 of the #ADnD Players Handbook asserts all coins in the game are "relatively equal in size" and page 102 asserts all coins weight 1/10 of a pound.
For some reason, this pair of "facts" upsets many #grognards, but it just amuses me. #DnD be crazy like that, people!
Fats DurstonIf you don't mind, I'm going to pronounce it Grog-Nard when referring to D&D old-heads, and Gron-yard to distinguish the Napoleonic era troops. #grognards
One thing I've discovered playing First Edition #ADnD in the 21st Century is that reformatting some of Gygax's more intimidating tables helps later-edition players (and out-of-practice #grognards) process rules information. My best example is the 1E #THAC0 table I created for the players' side of my DM screen. Let's talk about it.
The first image is page 74 of the DMG. The second image contains its attack matrices reformatted for the THAC0 Generation. Less scary already, right?
Going back and actually reading #DragonMagazine will give you a much more accurate understanding of what playing #RPGs in the early days was actually like than you will ever get by listening to old #OSR #cranks, #wingnuts, #neckbeards, #trolls, and #grognards bloviate about the #wokeness invading their precious little hobby. #DnD was not for conservative and reactionary people who didn't appreciate change. Literally everything about our games was changeable at will, and so we did.
Dan Masters, aka "Professor Dungeon Master" today in his latest video: "I'm from the generation where you rolled 3d6 and you lived with it."
I am of an age with Dan, I've been playing #DnD since about 1981, and I say this is FALSE.
It drives me nuts when #OSR #neckbeards and #grognards claim "3d6 in order" was what "Gary intended".
A straight 3d6 was *specifically* deprecated by Gygax in the 1979 #ADnD #DMG (p.11-12). "4d6 drop lowest" was literally the first method presented.
๐ฒSpeaking of things you used to be able to get as paper (or card). Ares magazine was a sci-fi war gaming magazine that had a game in every issue. Many of the issues are scanned and available on the internet archive โ not my particular jam, but if youโre into pnp war games, itโs worth a look. #Boardgames #WarGames #grognards
Peter aka spezbaby