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FVLMINATA, while it is technically fantasy, is probably not fantasy enough , since it's basically "What If the Roman Empire discovered gunpowder?" It subverts or ignores some of the tropes you discuss, but I think of historical fantasy as really a different field. DYING EARTH doesn't reall...

Yeah, I'm not totally clear what-all you want with each of these, so I'm guessing. Ars Magica? * The only PC race is "human". There are faeries and goblins and things in the setting, but they're portrayed as supernatural creatures, rather than mundane "races". * There is no signi...

Wolverine is only cool when he's the start of his series. When he's competing for attention against an ensemble or is not the main character he gets treated like a joke or a measuring stick for the Conflict Of The Week. 'If those things defeated Wolverine in a few seconds then what chance do we hav...

Correct. The dehydration "rules" are indeed in there. However, as we discussed previously , the chances of the dehydration rules ever mattering are very close to zero because they are so weirdly generous that the rules might as well be "fucking ignore it". That thread is awesome...

Doom wrote:Lordy, I still remember Mentzer pitching Cyborg Commando to me personally, thought maybe someone had cleaned it up a bit.

I still have a copy of that game somewhere. Needless to say, it's basically pristine.

From Wikipedia: "Mordenkainen's AD&D statistics were first published in The Rogues Gallery (1980), although Gary Gygax was later emphatic that he had never given author Brian Blume any information about the wizard, and insisted that Blume had been forced to make up Mordenkainen's statistics...

Anyone who tells you that 2nd edition rules were clear is using the Oberoni Fallacy. For all the grief I occasionally give 3/3.5, this is totally true. Earlier editions were worse. Usually a lot worse. I mean, there are places where 3rd edition is unclear. There're actually lots of them. But while ...

If we wanted to play a paladin/illusionist/druid, the DM would let us have the minimum, so no rolling was required. I've never seen a dual-classed character (outside of the Baldur's Gate video game). Plenty of multi-classed characters, though. I actually have never seen the former happen, although ...

How were they better before? I sold my 2e books a long time ago, and don't remember casting them back when I played 1e (I was still at the phase where I prepped Fireball in every slot as a wizard. Cut me some slack, I was 13 :p) Most things that involve creating or animating a weapon that fights th...

Ok, here is a simple lesson in morality: if you don't do the right thing because it's inconvenient, or because it costs a little money, or because you won't enjoy it, then you are fucking evil. And who cares if Diabolism costs Humanity? You can get Humanity back with XP. This is a weird disconnect....

I'm partial to the Metamorphosis Alpha scenario myself.

Actually drinking one person dry and leaving the body where it can be found is probably a Masquerade breach, because some jackass out there is going to go 'Vampires!' and start digging into the case and that story does not go well for Team Vampire. Just draining someone dry is probably heavily frow...

I sort of assumed the Tremere background was self-serving horseshit. "Yeah, we invented Thaumaturgy. For real. Don't mess with us, guys. We're badass." And since nobody else in the Camarilla (that I can remember) really has it as a clan schtick, that sort of makes sense. If I were the Cama...

I read online that pet stores sell live rats for as little as $3 as food rats and at most $15-20 for well-bred ones. I admit that I don't know about your local store. Good pet stores will absolutely sell you live rats. My wife keeps a pet python, and, while it's not yet big enough to require feedin...

Of course being a vampire isn't very horrifying in the World of Darkness. It's supposed to be tragically hip (or hiply tragic) curse, not the kind you finish off with a shotgun blast. Yes, over time, the game's conceit is that you're gradually supposed to get less and less human in your outlook. Un...

.... and no one sees the connection where "making Christian values true" scenarios also happen to be "destroy the setting" scenarios? In fairness, even the scenarios that didn't make Christian values true were intended to destroy the setting. :p To my mind, the most annoying par...

Every online game of Vampire I've ever seen (and I've seen quite a few) has slavishly followed the pen-and-paper rules for whatever version was current at the time it started. This includes games that routinely had hundreds of people logging in at once to play. As an aside, I think this is evidence ...

I'm pretty sure the only time the Christian God thing was explicitly hammered down in oWoD was in the "Time of Judgement" horseshit. Yeah. The "Gehenna" book for Vampire had like four different scenarios for the end of the world, one of which was explicitly Christian -- you got ...

Darth Rabbitt wrote: Mechanically, yes, but I would be pissed to permanently lose a character that I put any investment into making and roleplaying.

Sure, that's part of what makes Raise Dead such a terrible spell -- when it's your only option after a character dies, you're screwed no matter what you do.

I don't think they were ever folded into the official canon ruleset of 1E. They were in Unearthed Arcana, if you consider that to be "official". And, honestly, I wouldn't blame you for going either way on that. As for the thread topic, these are a few of my never memorized Cleric spells: ...

In AD&D and OD&D, spell ranges and areas were calculated in "inches". A table inch was 6' underground and 10' above ground. So outside your fireballs were literally larger than when you cast them inside. If memory serves, there was a specific callout in the 1E PHB that range was a...