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.
red_dawn wrote:Deities & Demigods
Zippanthropus wrote:Am I the only geek who checks this site like 10 times a day?
sheeadog wrote:Zippanthropus wrote:Am I the only geek who checks this site like 10 times a day?Nope... I check it about 10 times a day myself!
Marlith wrote:sheeadog wrote:Nope... I check it about 10 times a day myself!Wish I could cut down to ten
sheeadog wrote:Nope... I check it about 10 times a day myself!
killjoy32 wrote:i check about 50+ times
Xaxaxe wrote:killjoy32 wrote:i check about 50+ times And post on 49 of those occasions. Kidding, kidding! All in good-natured fun ...
ExTSR wrote:Re-reading some old posts, looks like BadMike doesn't care for my work.'sall right. I don't write to please everyone; that way lies madness.Somebody else liked DL for the 'first 3d dungeon views, 'way kewl'...Sorry; that was my idea, in R1 Falx; Steve Sullivan did the maps, at my direction. 3d was used thereafter in many products.
Blackmoor wrote:ExTSR wrote:Re-reading some old posts, looks like BadMike doesn't care for my work.'sall right. I don't write to please everyone; that way lies madness.Somebody else liked DL for the 'first 3d dungeon views, 'way kewl'...Sorry; that was my idea, in R1 Falx; Steve Sullivan did the maps, at my direction. 3d was used thereafter in many products.Your stuff was very good!!
The CM and IM series for basic D&D.....horribly overpowered, I could never even use the floorplans or monsters, these completely useless to me. Even stuff like the DL series I can use, if nothing else I recycle the floorplans, whereas the above mentioned series didn't even have useful floorplans. Forgot about WG9 and WG10. These were pretty bad I agree. I11 Needle seems to suffer by not having a good central idea or adventure encounter, wasn't it pretty much entirely random encounters?