red_dawn wrote:Deities & Demigods...Giving stats to gods only encouraged years of PC's wanting to go god-hunting. Ridiculous. I never allowed it in my campaigns, but a casual perusal of letters & forum posts in Dragon Magazine indicates the problem was rampant.One of the many problems with 1st edition that we'd all like to forget.
red_dawn wrote:Deities & Demigods
Xaxaxe wrote:red_dawn wrote:Deities & DemigodsWow, that surprises me. I always thought that Deities was a great product — there was lots of cool artwork, some educational stuff about some religions I knew nothing about, and, of course, lots of bitchin' power-gaming stats. And, remember, the edition with the Cthulhu and Elric listings is really Super-Mondo-Way-Rare ... you can get, like, $1,000 for one. It was "banned," you know ... But your point about the runaway munchkin-ism is dead-on. That book just seemed to bring out the worst in everyone (bitch-slapping Elric and getting my hands on an official AD&D version of Stormbringer was one of my goals). I would argue that that sort of rampant power-gaming was more of a reflection on the players rather than the book, though. YMMV, of course.
Xaxaxe wrote:I would argue that that sort of rampant power-gaming was more of a reflection on the players rather than the book, though.
Lordan wrote:MShipley88 wrote:I never liked the *Complete* books....mostly because they only caused problems.Have to agree with this 100%. I'm not a edition junkie ( like em all ) and actually enjoy 2nd edition ( I'ts all in the DM anyways ) but these books really caused more BS than anything else. Two words: Breach Gnomes
MShipley88 wrote:I never liked the *Complete* books....mostly because they only caused problems.
bclarkie wrote:No worries about me throwing out any books. The only way I could bring myself to throw out a D&D book is if it has some irremovable bodily fluid such as the 3 Ps.
MShipley88 wrote:Dude. You weren't supposed to sick Zeus on the party. Some DM's could not understand that....they were kids, afterall. However, it was EGG who went with the idea of a killable god. He even set her up with a high AC and a glass jaw to make the killing that much more certain but still dramatic.
MShipley88 wrote: I learned a lot from Dieties and Demi-gods. And, yes, I got Elric and all.
I think that Oriental Adventures must have been the worst binding job in history. We used to joke that you had to turn your head away the first time you opened it or the pages could blow up in your face like a grenade. Mark
Xaxaxe wrote:bclarkie wrote:No worries about me throwing out any books. The only way I could bring myself to throw out a D&D book is if it has some irremovable bodily fluid such as the 3 Ps.God help me, but I'm going to ask — there are three Ps?
bclarkie wrote:No worries about me throwing out any books. The only way I could bring myself to throw out a D&D book is if it has some irremovable bodily fluid such as the 3 Ps. I was going to be witty and say that if someone gave me a 3rd edition D&D book, I would throw it out, but that wouldn't count because thats not really a D&D book anyway.
bclarkie wrote:Pee, Poop, & Puke(keeping it as clean as possible). Those 3 would religate a book to the trash. I imagine that if some how bile or an over amount of phlemage(is this even a word? ) was involved that might make them trash worthy as well.
Zippanthropus wrote:I never had a problem of OA falling apart. UA, not enough duck-tape to hold that mother together. I found that OE to be poorly written, but I love UA.
deimos3428 wrote:Zippanthropus wrote:I never had a problem of OA falling apart. UA, not enough duck-tape to hold that mother together. I found that OE to be poorly written, but I love UA.My OA is in fairly pristine condition. (That's a new one for the eBay listings -- "fairly pristine" = "not falling apart".) I bought it just to complete my orange spines. UA tends to suffer more because it was actually used.
UA tends to suffer more because it was actually used.
