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Destroy All Monsters (2006)
- tom-thistime 4y agoD&D is apparently very hard to write about. This writer somehow does it. I hate, with a burning hate, original AD&D's insanely complex, contradictory, obviously-never-playtested rules that even the authors often couldn't explain in the Dragon Magazine later on. Fun game though.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 4y agoSomewhat off-topic but I remember being initially confused when I read that my employer's health plan offered AD&D coverage.
- msla 4y agoAnd a grappling rider the size of a NYC phone book...
- drewcoo 4y agoThe rules lawyer is a stereotype that never quite translated into typical CRPGs any more than the thespian did. And those roles existed in all RPGs and often other gamer geek games back then. I miss those days. When I've tried tabletop role playing a couple of times in recent years it was all munchkining all the time. About as un-fun as CRPGs but slower and more annoying.
- jhbadger 4y agoOne of the reasons this might be posted is that the author (Paul La Farge), who was also a novelist (I particularly liked his The Night Ocean), recently died of cancer at the relatively young age of 52. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_La_Farge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_La_Farge